Hallo Dele Ashiru:
Is it possible that this journal is also circulated in e-format for wider audience; your clarification is very important and appreciated.
For instance, you may want to sent some of the previous editions via this forum, especially since you got sponsorship and affirmed that it is not for profit.
many thanks
olumide
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From: Dele Ashiru <ashirudele@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 2 September 2013, 13:25
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Unilag Journal Of Politics: Call for Papers-Some Clarifications
I have followed with keen interest the controversy which my initial post on Unilag Journal of Politics: Call for Papers have generated. While I share the sentiments of great many scholars who have reacted to the post about the propriety of "paying" to ventilate research findings, I think it is important to make the following clarifications at least for posterity:
1) The Journal started with a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Department of Political Science, University of Lagos.
2) When the Funds from Ford dried up, the Editors resorted to self help in order to keep the journal alive by asking contributors to pay for assessment and production.
3) The money is often paid to assessors as honourarium to encourage them read and return manuscripts within the stipulated deadline.
4) Ridiculous as this may sound, this is the reality and tragedy of knowledge production and dissemination in Nigeria
5) For the avoidance of doubt, the Journal is not "cash and carry" as insinuated by some commentators. The payment of fee is not a guarantee that the paper will or must be published.
6) Manuscripts are blind peer reviewed by established scholars in the field and their assessment is sacrosanct.
7) Indeed, papers submitted by colleagues in the Department and Faculty have been rejected following assessors comment of 'poor quality' even after the payment of fees.
8) The journal is highly rated as this could be verified from the quality of papers published therein.
9) Finally, flowing from this controversy and in line with some suggestions by those who have reacted to the post, the Editorial team may want to review the question of payment or the modalities of payment and make such public for the benefit of all. This may include a commitment to publish well researched quality papers in the Journal whether the author agrees to pay or not.
What must not be lost is that we solicit for scholarly contributions from you all for the survival of the Journal and we are open to suggestions and criticisms.
Thank you.
'Dele Ashiru.
Department of Political Science,
University of Lagos,
Lagos,Nigeria.
+234-8026274712, +234-8019119573.
http//:www.politicalscienceunilag.org
http//:www.unilag.edu.ng
Department of Political Science,
University of Lagos,
Lagos,Nigeria.
+234-8026274712, +234-8019119573.
http//:www.politicalscienceunilag.org
http//:www.unilag.edu.ng
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