Submission Policies

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

Submission Information

Please email the completed 'Manuscript Packet' (see 'Submission Guidelines' for articles, research briefs, discussion forums and reviews) to PacificArts@ucsc.edu.

Pacific Arts does not charge any fees to authors.

Pacific Arts has double blind peer review for articles; peer review for research briefs, reviews, and discussion forums; editorial (copy editing) review for all submissions.

Pacific Arts uses Grammarly to screen for plagiarism.

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.

Rights and Permissions

Pacific Arts 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, meaning that the author may also publish it elsewhere. Before submitting an article to the journal, please be sure that all necessary permissions have been cleared in any third party material. 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.

Pacific Arts uses a CC BY NC-ND license.

Open Access statement

This is an open access journal 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.