About
St Anne’s Academic Review is an interdisciplinary journal published annually by St. Anne’s College graduates. We feature research articles, opinion pieces, field reviews, creative writing, book and event reviews from all disciplines written by college members across the JCR, MCR, and SCR. Our mission is to facilitate the dissemination of scholarly knowledge, and to showcase to the wider public the college’s intellectual activity of the year.
STAAR is completely open access. You can browse all past issues online, and printed versions are available in the college library and the JCR, MCR and SCR common rooms. Copies of STAAR can also be purchased from St Anne’s porter’s lodge - please contact us for more information.
STAAR is completely open access. You can browse all past issues online, and printed versions are available in the college library and the JCR, MCR and SCR common rooms. Copies of STAAR can also be purchased from St Anne’s porter’s lodge - please contact us for more information.
The Review Process
St Anne’s Academic Review is an open access journal. All content is freely available without charge to the users or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Open Review Process
Our research and field review articles from Issue 8 (2018) onwards undergo a quality check in the form of open review. This means that the online version of the article is published together with its reviews, and that reviewers’ names are publicly visible. During the review period, which typically lasts between 2 and 6 weeks, the articles are displayed on our website as pre-prints and are shared on social media to encourage comments and feedback. We invite selected reviewers directly via email, and also accept spontaneous reviews, as long as the reviewer fulfils the criteria below.
Selection criteria for reviewers
- Reviewers need to have academic (PhD or above) or professional experience in the article’s field of study;
- A reviewer cannot have published or closely collaborated with the author of the article in the last 3 years.
Average times
Average time between submission and publication: 6 months.
Editorial Review
Book/film/event reviews (including Spark Reviews) and creative writing continue to be subject to editorial review, as all articles prior to Issue 9
Average times
Spark Reviews are normally published online within 2 months from submission of the final piece.
As members of an academic community, we uphold intellectual honesty and treat the authors’ work with scholarly respect.
The content of each article published in STAAR – facts, arguments and opinions – represent the views of its author alone, and the author is uniquely and fully responsible. All our articles are licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY licence, which allows others to distribute, rework, and build upon the article’s content for any lawful purpose, as long as they credit the author for the original creation. The copyright for each article remains with its author. The author also retains publishing rights without restrictions.
The use of someone else’s work, data, ideas or material without proper acknowledgement, whether intentionally or unintentionally done, constitutes plagiarism. Authors pledge to submit their original work, with all borrowings and citations accurately referenced. The editors of St Anne’s Academic Review, the MCR or the college cannot be held responsible for any plagiarism or copyright violation committed by the authors.
The content of each article published in STAAR – facts, arguments and opinions – represent the views of its author alone, and the author is uniquely and fully responsible. All our articles are licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY licence, which allows others to distribute, rework, and build upon the article’s content for any lawful purpose, as long as they credit the author for the original creation. The copyright for each article remains with its author. The author also retains publishing rights without restrictions.
The use of someone else’s work, data, ideas or material without proper acknowledgement, whether intentionally or unintentionally done, constitutes plagiarism. Authors pledge to submit their original work, with all borrowings and citations accurately referenced. The editors of St Anne’s Academic Review, the MCR or the college cannot be held responsible for any plagiarism or copyright violation committed by the authors.