About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The Laboratory of Pedagogical Research and Applications of the Department of Preschool Education of the University of Crete announce the launch of the online open-access journal Preschool & Primary Education. The journal aims to contribute to the development of scientific dialogue and the dissemination of scientific knowledge produced in the international field of preschool and primary education. The journal will publish original research that meets the high standards of scholarly and practical significance as well as issues of interest in preschool and school development, theory and educational practice.
There are no submission charges and APCs charges.
We state our commitment to quality and peer-reviewed open access process of all papers.
Preschool & Primary Education is an open access journal. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Ethics statement
The editorial team of the "Preschool and Primary Education" is committed to ensuring transparent editorial processes. Practices implying misconduct or compromising the journal's standards, whether on the part of authors or journal associates, will be reported and properly treated.
Peer Review Process
At PRESCHOOL & PRIMARY EDUCATION we use the double-blind review process. The reviewers' names are not revealed to the author(s) of the paper, and likewise we do not reveal the identity of the author(s). We believe that this procedure facilitates independent and fair assessment of all papers.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public contributes to global knowledge exchange. We encourage authors to deposit their articles, as well as data underlying the publications, in institutional and/or other appropriate subject repositories.
ePublisher
The National Documentation Centre (www.ekt.gr) is a national infrastructure. Since 1980, it actively engages in the collection, organization and dissemination of scientific and technological information in Greece and internationally. EKT’s strategic priority is the aggregation, organized online dissemination and preservation of quality-assured scholarly and educational content in a single research infrastructure.
EKT’s vision is “Access to Knowledge”. To this end it implements Open Access policies in research, supports the transfer and dissemination of scientific knowledge, collaborates with research, education and cultural institutions for the aggregation, organization and dissemination of digital content and provides innovative services in scientific information.
EKT provides reliable ePublishing services as part of its scholarly content aggregation and dissemination activities . Its integrated online ePublishing environment is developed with open-source interoperable technology. This affords the incorporation of EKT’s infrastructures into the continuously developing international infrastructure environment.
EKT’s ePublishing services (http://epublishing.ekt.gr/) are directed to public and extended public institution publishers of accredited scholarly journals. They include, most significantly, the organization, documentation and organized dissemination of metadata and content of scholarly journals, the training and consulting services on issues such as intellectual property, the standardization of editorial processes according to internationally accepted standards, the inclusion of content and metadata in international content indexers and harvesters via interoperable systems.
Sources of Support
The development of this online edition of the journal Preschool & Primary Education is possible through the project 'National Information System for Research and Technology, Phase IV - Social Networks', implemented by the National Documentation Centre (ΕΚΤ). It is financed by the program "Digital Convergence" of the National Strategic Reference Framework Programme for Development 2007-2013, co-funded by the European Union - European Regional Development Fund and the Greek State. (www.epset.gr)
