Rewarding Fantasy Research

At Mapping the Impossible, we are so excited to announce that we are taking
a significant first step towards appropriately rewarding the authors of the
papers we publish.

Launched earlier this year, Mapping the Impossible is a brand new
open-access student journal publishing peer-reviewed early career  research
into fantasy, affiliated with and supported by the University of Glasgow’s
Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic.

We are open to submissions for our second issue now.

See our submissions page here>>

https://fantasy-research.gla.ac.uk/index.php/submissions/

Remuneration  for publication remains notoriously poor in academia. Thanks
to generous support from the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, we are
proud to be working towards remedying the situation by offering a reward
for each paper we publish. On this, the editorial board of Mapping the
Impossible and the core team of the Centre agree: publishing research for
recognition alone should not be the standard.

As of today, we are pleased to be able to offer a £20 digital voucher (most
likely for Amazon, but we are open to providing book tokens) for each paper
we publish. This will be available to all scholars (in the UK and
internationally), and distributed upon the publication of each paper we
accept. Additionally, we have managed to secure funding for our forthcoming
first issue, to be released in late January, and all of our current authors
will receive vouchers.

Obviously, this is a both literal and figurative token reward, and is not
intended to reflect adequate payment for all the hard work the researchers
we publish put into their papers. But by providing these tokens, we are
doing a number of important things. Firstly, we are putting Centre funds
directly into the hands of fantasy researchers, to reward the hard work
they are doing to enrich the field. Secondly, we are incentivising other
journals to adopt similar policies. And thirdly, of course, we are further
encouraging fantasy researchers (like you!) to consider taking the time to
submit your paper to us. We’d love to read it.

One day, we hope to be able to offer full, appropriate payment for the
papers we publish. But we hope you’ll join us in celebrating what amounts
to a significant first step towards that. And to other journals, we say: if
we can do it, so can you.

If you’re interested in finding out more, or wondering whether your paper
would be eligible for our journal, please check out our website here>>

https://fantasy-research.gla.ac.uk/

And our page on payments here>>

https://fantasy-research.gla.ac.uk/index.php/rewarding_research/

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