Submissions
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About
19 is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century. Based at Birkbeck, University of London, 19 extends the activities of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies by making the high-quality, original scholarship presented at its regular conferences, symposia and other events available to an international audience. 19 publishes two themed issues annually, each consisting of a collection of peer-reviewed articles showcasing the broadest range of new research in nineteenth-century studies, as well as special forums advancing critical debate in the field.
Submission Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.
3. The submission file is in Microsoft Word format. Do not submit your work as a PDF.
4. Tables and figures are all cited in the text. Tables are included within the text document, whilst figure files are uploaded as supplementary files.
5. Figures/images have a resolution of at least 150dpi (300dpi or above preferred). Each file is no more than 20MB per file. The files are in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS (to maximise quality, the original source file is preferred).
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. If you would prefer to publish your work under an alternative Creative Commons License, please indicate this in the Comments for the Editor box when submitting, providing reasons for your request.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
Peer Review
All submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed by active researchers.
All submitted manuscripts are first reviewed by the editorial team. Those papers that seem most likely to meet our editorial criteria are sent for formal review. The editorial board reserves the right to reject manuscripts without sending them for formal review.
Promising submissions are sent for formal review, typically to two reviewers, but sometimes more. The editors make a decision based on the reviewers' advice from among the following options:
- Accept: Your submission has been accepted as is.
- Minor revisions: Your submission requires minor changes and will be accepted once those have been completed.
- Major revisions: Your submission needs significant re-working. A new file must be submitted and another round of review will take place.
- Reject: Your submission was not accepted for publication with this journal, either because it was not seen to be of high enough quality, or its subject did not match the journal.
While reviews in all cases are blind, we recognise that articles that germinated in conference presentations are exceptionally hard to anonymize. In such cases we will, therefore, ask reviewers to disclose any conflicts of interest, disclose whether they know the identity of the author and to justify their comments solely on the basis of the article under submission. These factors will be combined and considered at the discretion of the editors in reaching a decision.
In the case of editors submitting, the submission will be handled by other members of the team who must adhere strictly to the recommendations of external reviewers.
Licences
The following licences are allowed:
- CC BY 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Publication Fees
This journal is published by the Open Library of Humanities. Unlike many open-access publishers, the Open Library of Humanities does not charge any author fees. This does not mean that we do not have costs. Instead, our costs are paid by an international library consortium.
If your institution is not currently supporting the platform, we request that you ask your librarian to sign up. The OLH is extremely cost effective and is a not-for-profit charity. However, while we cannot function without financial support and we encourage universities to sign up, institutional commitment is not required to publish with us.
Sections
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Peer Reviewed |
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From Anna Birkbeck’s Album |
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Circulation and Display |
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Podcast |
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Article |
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Gallery |
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Mechanics’ Institution Networks |
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1823–2023 |
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Visualizing Victoria |
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Victoria Today |
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Forum |
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Vision |
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Reading Victorian Sculpture |
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Biographical Section |
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Preface |
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Bibliography |
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Blindness Forum |
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Introduction |
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Book Review |
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The Craft of the Archive |
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The Our Mutual Friend Reading Project |
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19 Live |
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Review |
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Forewords: Ten Years of 19 |
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Object |
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Correction |
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Afterword |
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Interview |
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Curating Victorian Sculpture |
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Reviewing ‘Sculpture Victorious’ |
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Experiment |
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Report |
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Making and Mending |
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Consumers and Contexts |
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The Life/The Woman of Letters |
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Readings and Iconographies |
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Art and Form |
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‘Late’ Eliot |