Submission Policies

The editors reserve the right to determine the suitability of submissions. For additional information, please contact the editors.

MELA Notes undertakes a double anonymous peer review process.
MELA Notes does not use online software to screen for plagiarism.
MELA Notes does not charge authors for processing or article submission.

Length of time from submission to publication. 

Removal

Once published, a journal article cannot generally be revised or removed. We feel it is important to provide perpetual access to materials published whenever possible and appropriate. However, we will remove publications under special circumstances, including in the case of submission errors, rights violations, or inappropriate content. Please be aware, however, that even after the removal of a work, a citation to the work will remain in our system, along with a URL.

If you would like your work removed from eScholarship, please contact the editors.

Revising Work

Once manuscripts are published, we are generally unable to revise them. If a significant error or omission is discovered, contact the editors. If there is a name change, please contact the editors. 

Rights and Permissions

MELA Notes does not require copyright transfer, only permission to publish and archive the article. Copyright holders retain copyright ownership, granting a nonexclusive license to the journal and eScholarship to publish the article and distribute it elsewhere (including external scholarly databases). Because the author retains copyright they may choose to republish the article elsewhere, but they are required  to cite the journal as the site of first publication.

Before submitting an article to the journal, please be sure that 

• All necessary permissions have been cleared in any third party material.

• Any textual, graphic or multimedia material included in the Submission that is the intellectual property or work of another is identified and cited. 

• Any student authors have waived any necessary privacy rights granted by FERPA or any other law, policy or regulation, with respect to the article

All articles published in the journal are subject to the journal’s author agreement, which is available in the first step of the submission process or by contacting us to request a copy.

Open Access statement

This is an open access journal under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC) license which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her 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.

Long-term preservation policy

All materials submitted to eScholarship are automatically deposited in CDL's Merritt Preservation Repository for long-term preservation.