Focus and Scope

The peer reviewed scientific journal “Themes in Education Sciences” is a medium for the exchange of ideas and interaction between the members of the community of Education Sciences. It publishes original papers, theoretical analyses, empirical studies, and innovations in education.
The journal also includes yearbook topics of the Department of Primary Education of the University of Ioannina, Greece. In the corresponding section issues regarding the research, scientific, developmental, and teaching work of the Department are presented.

Peer Review Process

The papers submitted to “Themes in Education Sciences” are published after a double-blind peer review process by at least two reviewers according to international scientific practices.

Publication Frequency

The journal publishes one volume per year.

Open Access Policy

This journal 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.

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.

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