About the Journal

Interdisciplinary Review of ValEUs publishes the working papers of the ValEUs Network, articles of original and significant research and interpretation, reviews of scholarly books and films, and topical review essays and discussion forums. Relevant for scholars, policymakers, journalists and civil society actors as well as for educators, students, and the general public, a primary purpose of the journal is to encourage dialogue among EU and non-EU stakeholders from a variety of sectors on different approaches to research, education, and policymaking. Submissions from all disciplines and perspectives are welcome. All publications are peer-reviewed and editorial policy is guided by an international editorial board.

Open Access Policy: The ValEUs journal provides immediate open access to its content. Our publisher, the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh (ULS), abides by the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access. By “open access” to peer-reviewed publications, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

Researchers engage in discovery for the public good, yet because of cost barriers or use restrictions imposed by other publishers, research results are not available to the full community of potential users. It is our mission to support a greater global exchange of knowledge by making the research published in this journal open to the public and reusable under the terms of a Creative Commons CC-BY license.

Furthermore, we encourage authors to post their prepublication manuscript in institutional repositories or on their websites prior to and during the submission process, and to post the publisher’s final formatted PDF version after publication. These practices benefit authors with productive exchanges as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

There are no article processing charges, submissions fees, or any other costs required of authors to submit articles to or publish articles in this journal.

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