Theoria

We are not really sure about what OJS takes into account, but, from now on, clicking on this link you’ll be able to acces our updated submission statistics. It just considers the papers submitted as articles (excluding special issues and states of the art, even if these are peer reviewed too).  The statistics are only valid for 2010 and, ss of today, the figures are:

Available on line since June, THEORIA 68 has just  been printed and distributed. Featuring in this issue, a section devoted to the XIIth Taller d’Investigació en Filosofia, wonderfully edited by Mireia López (thanks, Mireia!). Plus a paper by L. Ferreiro and 3 fine book reviews.

The SOAP Project (*), funded by the European Commission, is running an online survey to assess researchers’ experiences with open access publishing.  The survey outcome will be made public and shared with libraries, funding agencies, researchers and publishers.   We would be most grateful if you could share the following announcement with as many researchers as possible working at your institutions so that the opinions of your community can be clearly heard and shape the open access publishing debate.   The survey closes on Monday 21st June 2010. Your views on open access publishing are needed!

The SOAP Project (*), funded by the European Commission, would like to announce the release of an online survey to assess researchers’ experiences with open access publishing. This survey aims to inform the most comprehensive analysis of attitudes to open access publishing to date and is seeking views from a wide a range of interested parties. It is primarily aimed at active researchers in public and private organizations, from all research fields in science and the humanities and focuses on publication of research articles in (open access) peer-reviewed journals.   If you would like to contribute to shaping the public discourse on open access, please visit :
http://surveymonkey.com/soap_survey_d

It should take 10-15 minutes to complete. We would appreciate if you would share this link with your work colleagues and research collaborators so that the views of your discipline are properly represented. The survey outcome will be made public and the resulting insights as well as recommendations will be openly shared with the European Commission and other research funding agencies, publishers, and libraries.

(*) Note: The SOAP consortium is coordinated by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. It represents key stakeholders in open access, such as publishers BioMedCentral, SAGE and Springer; funding agencies (the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council) and libraries (the Max Planck Digital Library of the Max Planck Society). The project runs for two years, from March 2009 to February 2011.

With papers by García Suárez, Fernández Moreno, Ginnobili, Rolleri and Riesch. And 8 book reviews. All freely available clicking here.

What have we been doing since Jan. 20th? Here are the figures:

3 papers received a revise and resubmit, were resubmitted and finally rejected (the entire process took around 10 weeks).

6 papers were rejected

1 paper was considered unsuitable for the journal

4 more required revisions and were finally accepted.

Every decision was reached within eight weeks, so we can only be grateful to our reviewers and editors for being so quick.

Featuring papers by J. Reiss & P. Kitcher, C. Corredor, E. Weber & J. van Bouwel and J. Vega. All are freely accesible HERE

In THEORIA we’ve been using for quite a while the Harvard style, about which we’ve received a few complaints. The questio is: which one is the best alternative? Clearly, it should feature by default in the major reference managers (Refworks, Endnote, etc.) and it would be nice to share it with other philosophy journals. If you have suggestion, please email us: theoria [at] ehu.es

When we launched the digital version of THEORIA,  eight weeks ago,  we announced that, on average, we will try to reach a decision on every submitted paper within eight weeks. For the time being, we are keeping our promise.

Between the 1st and the 20th of January we received 9 submissions:

• 1 was off the topics covered by the journal
• 2 have been rejected
• 3 got a “Revise and resubmit”
• 2 have been accepted with revisions
• 1 is still awaiting a report (but we are about to get it!)

All in all, most papers got a response in six weeks or less and the quality of the reports has been good enough to ground our decisions without complications. We hope this will encourage you to submit new papers!

Established in 1952 by Miguel Sánchez-Mazas, THEORIA is one of the leading philosophy journals in the Spanish-speaking world and a well-ranked publication in the Europe Science Foundation index (ERIH: B). We are pleased to inform you that we have just appointed a new editorial team:  Gabriel Uzquiano (Oxford), Genoveva Martí (ICREA & Universitat de Barcelona), Josefa Toribio (ICREA & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), José Antonio Díez Calzada (Universitat de Barcelona), Marga Vicedo (University of Toronto) and Javier Moscoso (CSIC). Andoni Ibarra (UPV/EHU) remains the journal’s editor-in-chief. We welcome submissions in their respective areas of competence. You can find further details here:

http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/about/editorialTeam

THEORIA is a non-profit editorial venture of the University of the Basque Country. Our papers are published under a Creative Commons licence and we are gradually providing free access to all our back catalogue, starting with the 2009 volume. In this spirit, we have joined the Open Journal Systems (OJS) developed by the Public Knowledge Project and now you can submit your papers directly  through our website:

http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/about/submissions

Please do not hesitate to contact us, if you need further information about THEORIA

Maria Julià Obrador has created a wonderful LaTeX style for THEORIA. If you plan to use maths in your submissions, please email us (theoria [at] ehu.es) requesting the source file and the instructions.