S&P: Editors’ Blog

Our journal now has an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), assigned by the Library of Congress (by their National Serials Data Program):

ISSN: 1937-8912

At the same time, we are now members of CrossRef and have been assigned a DOI (digital object identifier) prefix:

doi: 10.3765

The articles in our inaugural issue will now permanently be available via doi:10.3765/sp.0.1 and doi:10.3765/sp.0.2. If on the back-end the articles are moved around, these permanent identifiers will be unchanged and simply point to the new location of the articles. So, everyone should link to these articles (and all others that have a DOI, which is increasingly every scientific article published nowadays) via their DOI.

In an 11 minute interview, Kai explains the S&P project. Take a listen!

In the first two weeks after our grand opening we have already received three submissions, which are now under review (in fact, two reviewers have already reported back — with what is quite astonishing speed). We have also fielded some inquiries about possible submissions that we judged to be somewhat outside the scope of our journal.

As the year’s end is coming and many academics are free of teaching for a few weeks and thus get some time to work on putting the finishing touches on their newest research articles, we hope that you are all seriously considering S&P as your venue for publication. You will get prompt attention from first-class peer reviewers, and if your paper is accepted, it will quickly be copy-edited and typeset to our exacting standards, and then it will immediately be available to everyone in the field anywhere in the world without any cost (to anyone other than our institutional supporters, the LSA, MIT, and the University of Texas).