About the Journal
Peer review process
To ensure the high scholarly quality of the academic writing published by Unikitty, all articles, review articles and translations are double-blind peer reviewed. Creative writing submissions go through the same review processes. Book reviews are not peer reviewed, but are read by Unikitty editors who determine their suitability and decide whether or not to request revisions.
Submissions in categories subject to peer review are first read by Unikitty editors to determine their suitability for the journal. Material that progresses to the next stage is anonymised and sent to two subject specialists for peer review. For translations, this will include one language expert and one expert in the field(s) of the translated text. When the referee reports have been received by Unikitty, the editors discuss the reviewers’ advice with the submitting authors.
The ultimate decision on whether to publish submissions rests with the Unikitty editors-in-chief. Authors are updated via email at each stage of the review process.
Open access
Unikitty is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge. 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 author, as long as proper acknowledgement is provided. This is in keeping with the Budapest Open Access Initiative’s definition of open access.
Copyright and licensing
From 2017, Unikitty publishes material under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC). This means that, for non-commercial use, readers are free to share, reproduce, store or use the material published in Unikitty, as long as a proper citation acknowledges the author and the publisher. No part of this publication may be used for commercial purposes without the prior written approval of the Unikitty editors-in-chief.
Authors published in Unikitty retain full copyright over their work, without restrictions, while granting Unikitty rights to publish their work under a CC BY-NC license. Authors may deposit pre- or post-publication copies of their work in repositories, or re-publish them in dissertations, books or websites. The editors ask that if a work is re-published elsewhere, authors acknowledge its first appearance in Unikitty.
The CC BY-NC license does not apply to third-party works, such as images or extracts of texts, which may be included in articles. These third-party works may still be protected by copyright, appearing within Unikitty articles with permission of the rights holder (all rights reserved) or under a fair dealing exception for criticism or review.
Archiving
Issues of Unikitty are both published and archived in figshare. This facilitates the publication, distribution, sharing and long-term storage of works published in Unikitty, which are provided with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and, through Figshare, indexed by Google and other search engines.
