Contents

• Publishing policy
• Submission Guidelines
• Copyright
• Publishing agreement

Publishing policy

UltiBASE publishes original research, work-in-progress, personal reflections and interviews. We focus on teaching and learning in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Education.

UltiBASE has an editorial board drawn from leading academics and practitioners from around the world. This board engages in blind, peer-review of articles and operates within a supportive framework. All submissions are rigorously reviewed and contributors receive prompt and encouraging feedback.

In order to take full advantage of the possibilities of World Wide Web publishing we encourage the use of innovative media, such as online streaming of presentations and hypertext material.

Papers in languages other than English are also encouraged.

Submission Guidelines

Peer reviewed articles

These follow the usual conventions for publication of an article and cover relevant research and/or theory, rationale and methodology of the work, results and implications. They are reports of research or critical reviews which advance professional and reflective practice in university teaching.

The Editor, in consultation with the author, devises the electronic publication format if needed.

We ask ultiBASE referees to follow our Process and to use our Proforma for Referees to assess articles against the following criteria as well as making a broad general evaluation for the author:

• Significance of the article to research and development in the field of tertiary teaching
• Clarity of purpose
• Originality of contribution
• Technical adequacy of contribution
• Relevance for readers from many disciplines
• Readability

Work-in-progress

This is published on ultiBASE with the view to receiving peer feedback prior to final publication. Feedback received is published with the article for as long as the article is available for review.

• All submissions should include authors' full names, contact details and the full name of their organisation.
• Manuscripts should be sent as an e-mail attachment or on disk in MS Word format.
• Papers may be of any length but 4000-6000 is suggested.
• Contributors are encouraged to use multimedia and other innovations:
• Embedded graphs, images and tables should also be submitted as an individual file in their native format (e.g bmp, png, cdr etc) where possible.
• Hypertext links both within and outside articles are encouraged. Please supply accurate URLs for external links.
• The Harvard citation system is preferred since footnotes are awkward in Web documents.
• Authors should not use unusual style sheets, as these are often very difficult to translate to html for web pages.

The University (ultiBASE), while taking all reasonable care, will not be liable for the loss or damage to any work while in its possession and therefore authors should ensure that they have retained a complete copy.

For further information please contact:

Marita Mueller
Email: marita.mueller@rmit.edu.au
Ph: +61 3 9925 3053
Fax: +61 3 9925 3049

Copyright

Articles

Except where any other arrangement is agreed between the University and an Author, the copyright in any article published by the University remains the property of the Author and the University will publish an acknowledgement of copyright ownership at the end of the article. Although submitting an article to the University does not impose any obligation on the University to publish it, the University will inform an author within six months of submission whether it intends to publish the article. The University will not publish any article before the Author has signed the University's publishing Agreement.

The acknowledgement of copyright ownership at the end of the article generally consists of the following:

Copyright © Name of author, date. For uses other than personal research or study, as permitted under the Copyright Laws of your country, permission must be negotiated with the author/s. Any further publication permitted by the author/s must include full acknowledgement of first publication in ultiBASE (http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au). Please contact the Editor of ultiBASE for assistance with acknowledgement of subsequent publication.

Articles published will be retained on ultiBASE for not less than twelve months.

ultiBASE publishing agreement

The full text is available for printing by authors if needed.