About

Aims and scope

The London Journal of Canadian Studies (LJCS) is an interdisciplinary fully peer reviewed, open access journal specialising in Canadian history, politics, culture and society and has been published annually since 1984. Many leading UK Canadianists based at the University of London and UCL have been associated with it during its 30-year history.

Volumes of the LJCS are usually themed issues, with each volume consisting of refereed articles addressing a topic of interest to Canadians, Canadianists and anyone with a general interest in Canada.

Publication frequency: The London Journal of Canadian Studies publishes one issue per year.

Indexing

UCL Press works with subject specific indexers to deposit published articles in relevant repositories and search databases. We are committed to the responsible use of metrics and strongly encourage all readers, authors, reviewers, and Editors to read through our statement about the use of metrics across the journal, available online at https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/site/editorial_policy/#METRICS.

Articles published in the The London Journal of Canadian Studies are indexed in:

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Dimensions
EBSCOHost
OCLC
Google Scholar
Baidu
Portico preservation service
UCL Discovery

Article publication charges

UCL Press journals do not levy an Article-Processing Charge (APC) for submission or publication in the London Journal of Canadian Studies. Contributors to The London Journal of Canadian Studies will not be required to make an APC payment for submission or publication of their article.

Open access policy

All articles published in The London Journal of Canadian Studies are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) 4.0 international licence agreement and published open access, making them immediately and freely available to read and download. The CC-BY licence agreement allows authors to retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of the work. Further information regarding this can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 and licensing terms and conditions can be found in our Journals Editorial Policy https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/site/editorial_policy.

Peer review

The London Journal of Canadian Studies operates double anonymised peer review, where both the reviewers and authors are anonymised to each other during review. Authors should submit an anonymous version of the manuscript, stripped of all identifying references to the author(s) for peer review. Reviewers cannot be from the same institution as the author, based at any funding bodies connected to the paper and cannot be recommended by authors or anyone else connected to the paper.

Further information regarding peer review can be found on the UCL Press editorial policy pages (https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/site/editorial_policy).

Journal information

ISSN: 2397-0928

Homepage: https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/ljcs

Published by:

UCL Press
University College London (UCL)
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT. UK

UCL Press website: https://www.uclpress.co.uk

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UCL Press Journals Editorial Policy: https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/site/editorial_policy

Contact the journal

All general enquiries should be sent to the Editor at tony.mcculloch [at] ucl.ac.uk.