About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The online “Hellenic journal of research in education” is edited and published by members of the “Laboratory of Research in Pedagogy and Educational Practices” of the Department of Educational Sciences in Pre-school Age (Democritus University of Thrace). The content of the journal is oriented to educational
research.
Peer Review Process
Each manuscript is reviewed by two reviewers of the scientific committee or other acknowledged researchers related to the scientific field, under a double-blind peer review process.
The author of the article is informed within three months for the acceptance or rejection of his work.
Publication Frequency
Articles are published in the journal's website as soon as the evaluation process is successfully completed.
Open Access Policy
Hellenic Journal of Research in Education provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
This journal does not charge submission or publication fees.
Hellenic Journal of Research in Education permits and encourages authors to archive the the final publication pdf in institutional (e.g. the repository of the National Hellenic Research Foundation) or other appropriate subject repositories (e.g. SSOAR repository for social sciences), in compliance with institutional and/or funder open access policies, after publication. Authors must provide bibliographic details that credit publication in the journal, as well as related funding details (when applicable).
Lists of institutional and other subject-based academic open access repositories can be found listed by country at the registry http://opendoar.org/countrylist.php
If your institution does not possess a repository you may deposit a copy of your paper at no cost with www.zenodo.org , the repository supported for open access research in the EU by the European Commission, through the project OpenAIRE (www.openaire.eu )
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.
Journal History
The laboratory was founded at the Department of Education Sciences in Pre-school Age - which was renamed to Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood - as a Laboratory for Religious Education in Pre-school Age and completed its operation in 2004. The General Assembly of the Department (number of decision: 225 / 26-01-2011), renamed it to Laboratory of Research in Pedagogy and Educational Practices (L.R.P.E.P)
