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Aurora

Policies & Guidelines

Submission Requirements:

  • Author must have been an undergraduate while completing the actual research.

  • Articles must be submitted within 2 years of completion of the research.

  • Submissions cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic).
      Please Note: “Publication” in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication.

  • By submitting material to Aurora, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that they will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Aurora.

If you have concerns about the submission terms for Aurora, please contact the editors.

Who can Submit:

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Aurora provided they own the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

Philosophy of Aurora:

For more information, please see the Aims and Scope page.

Formatting Requirements

Aurora has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details. Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.

The author(s) give Aurora permission to use portions of their work for promotional purposes, including but not limited to publication on Aurora’s website.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.

Rights for Authors and DigitalCommons@ONU

As further described in our submission agreement, in consideration for publication of the article, the authors assign to DigitalCommons@ONU all copyright of the article and are subject to the expansive personal-use exceptions described below.

Attribution and Usage Policies

Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of DigitalCommons@ONU, requires credit to DigitalCommons@ONU as copyright holder (e.g., DigitalCommons@ONU © 2024).

Personal-use Exceptions

The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission from DigitalCommons@ONU provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:

  • Storage and back-up of the article on the author's computer(s) and digital media (e.g., diskettes, back-up servers, Zip disks, etc.), provided that the article stored on these computers and media is not readily accessible by persons other than the author(s);

  • Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial;

  • Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author(s)'s place of employment (e.g., a Phrenology professor at the University of Southern North Dakota can have her article appear in the University of Southern North Dakota's Department of Phrenology online publication series).

  • Posting of the article on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author.

    • People seeking an exception, or who have questions about use, should contact the editors.

General Terms and Conditions of Use

Users of the DigitalCommons@ONU website and/or software agree not to misuse the DigitalCommons@ONU service or software in any way. The failure of DigitalCommons@ONU to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between DigitalCommons@ONU and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.