Ever been rolled by an academic journal? Ever-memed Reviewer Two apparently had blackmail on the editor, and overrode two positive reports? Three positive reader reports, but still rejected? The dreaded R&R&R: revised, resubmitted, and rejected? New Editors don’t agree with Past Editors? Most of us have experienced this kind of mess at least once, and most of us have at least one piece sitting on a harddrive somewhere not being read. It’s written. It has been reviewed. It has merit! But because of the tangle of current academic publishing in the humanities, it isn’t going to be published.
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This is where Medieval Leavings may be able to help. (More specifics about what kinds of submissions we’re looking for, and what we aren’t, here.) We’re an Open Access, online journal that publishes such editorial orphans on topics in Medieval Studies (broadly construed) and makes them available for our community to use. We hope to ameliorate some of the inequities (and maybe also indignities) of journal publishing.
Medieval Leavings will also feature a special section, Archival Darlings, highlighting exciting archival finds that may be useful for other scholars to know about, but that simply don’t fit our own formal publication plans.
If we accept your article at Medieval Leavings, your article is peer-reviewed, but not in the usual sense, and so it may or may not count toward your annual review or REF.
Medieval Leavings provides the benefit of an audience at last.
Sometimes that is enough.
Interested in submitting a piece to Medieval Leavings? Look for more on our process here.