Submissions

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About

Streams of Consciousness is an online literary and visual art publication of UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, MA, USA. The journal is a collaborative project for students in the School of Medicine, Graduate School of Nursing, and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, as well as residents, faculty, patients and other members of the UMass Chan and UMass Memorial Health community, to channel their experiences through works of poetry, prose, and photography.

Focus and Scope

Originally conceptualized as a UMass Chan Medical School Capstone project, Streams of Consciousness (ISSN 2640-0049) is a collaborative project between Tom Ford (SOM ’18), William-Bernard Reid-Varley (PGY-2, Psychiatry), and Colin Whitworth (PGY-2, Psychiatry) that aims to allow students in the School of Medicine, Graduate School of Nursing, and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, as well as residents, faculty, patients, and other members of the UMass Chan and UMass Memorial Health community to channel their experiences through works of poetry, prose, and photography. In sharing your unique perspective, we hope to help the members of our community understand and appreciate each other in ways that were previously difficult to achieve.

Submission Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all the following items.  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 the cover letter to the editors).
  2. The manuscript or video article transcript is in Microsoft Word or RTF file format.
  3. The manuscript or video article transcript, including the abstract, has been prepared for anonymous peer review by masking author names, affiliations, URLs, and self-citations.
  4. References follow the format guidelines specified in the Author Guidelines.
  5. Where available, DOIs or URLs for the references have been provided.
  6. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; and pages are numbered.
  7. All tables and figures are numbered.
  8. The text adheres to all stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  9. A cover letter has been prepared as a separate file.

Copyright Notice

  • Authors of original work accepted for publication in this journal grant first publication rights to the journal but retain ownership of the copyright of their content and all other rights.
  • Works published in this journal will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) license. Under this license, authors' work may be re-used, redistributed, and reproduced in any medium, provided that the authors are credited and properly cited, the use is non-commercial, and the work is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. Authors may request a different Creative Commons license during the submission process.
  • For attribution, the author(s), article title, publication source (the journal) and the DOI of the article must be cited. For example: Originally published in: Silk H. 2017. “Brief Advice to a Young Doctor.” Streams of Consciousness 1(1):1002. https://doi.org/10.7191/soc.2017.1002
  • Authors retain the right to self-archive any version of their work (preprint, accepted manuscript, or final publisher version) on preprint servers, subject-specific repositories, institutional repositories, or their own website, as long as the work is properly cited and a link to the DOI of the published article is included.
  • Authors are responsible for obtaining the rights to use 3rd party materials prior to submission.

Peer Review

This journal operates a open/single anonymous/double anonymous, peer review policy.

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.
  • CC BY-NC 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. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
  • CC BY-NC-SA 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. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
  • CC BY-SA 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. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
  • CC BY-ND 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. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
  • CC BY-NC-ND 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. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. 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 provides immediate open access to its content. The editors believe making research freely available to the public best benefits research, scholars, education, and society. This journal does not charge subscription, submission, copyediting, or author fees.

Publication Cycle

The journal is published online up to two times per year.

Sections

Section or article type Public Submissions Peer Reviewed Indexed
Photography Yes Yes Yes
Poetry Yes Yes Yes
Prose Yes Yes Yes