About the Conference Proccedings

FOCUS & SCOPE

The Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA) organizes a conference during the annual conference of the Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences, also known as Congress. Congress is the convergence of over 70 scholarly associations, each holding their annual conference, and is Canada’s largest gathering of researchers, scholars, graduate students, and practitioners with approximately 8,000 attendees. The mandate of the OTESSA conference is to build connections with respect to the application of technology and open across K12, post-secondary, and other spaces where learning and knowledge sharing happens.

This is the portal for conference submissions and home for the publication of the conference proceedings.

To find the conference website, visit https://otessa.org and click on "Conference" then "Current Conference."

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

Articles  submitted to the OTESSA Conference Proceedings are assigned to three reviewers and are reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers. The reviews are double-blind by default. Open reviews are used if the editors approve the author's request for one or if the content of the submission makes it impossible to anonmize, such as media or profiles of practice which can identify the authors. Please allow approximately six weeks for reviews to be completed. If there are any exceptional reasons to request an expedited review, and possible revisions have been completed, it mus go through a copyediting process and translation of at least the title, abstract, and keywords. To improve turnaround time required for copyediting and to increase chances of acceptance, we strongly recommend that authors submit polished and properly proofread works with attention to detail in citations and reference lists that us APA style.

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

Full papers from the OTESSA Conference Proceedings are published published approximately once a year.

LANGUAGE OPTION

The official language of the OTESSA Conference Proceedings is English; however, submissions can be accepted in either English or French, which are the official languages of Canada. Papers will be published in the language in which they were received; however, abstracts will be published in both languages. English submissions may use either British or American English, but the usage must be consistent throughout. Please check spelling and grammar before making a submission. Authors are encouraged to sign up as reviewers. Under "areas of interest," enter "English reviewer" or "French reviewer" in addition to keywords for expertise to assist us with the review assignment process.

STANDARDS AND ETHICS

We expect authors to follow the International Standards for Authors published by COPE. The OTESSA Conference Proceedings take issues of copyright infringement and plagiarism in publication very seriously. We will seek to protect the rights of our authors and investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles in order to protect the reputation of the conference proceedings against malpractice. We reserve the right to check submitted articles with duplication-checking software. Where an article is found to have plagiarised other work or included copyright material without permission or acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing a correction, retracting the article, contacting leadership within the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies, or taking appropriate legal action. The manuscript must be original material that has not been published and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

“The means of communication should be held by the public, the very basis of how we connect should be a public utility. That principle we are trying to bring to research and scholarship” (Willinsky, 2012). 

The conference proceedings provide immediate open access to its content to support the public good. We pursue open access for expanding equity, impact, reach, and knowledge advancement. We welcome sponsors to support the important work we do at OTESSA. Please visit Becoming a Sponsor on our OTESSA website.

UVic TIE Lab. (2012, October 19). The Intellectual Properties of Learning and Changing Political Economy of Technology in Canada [Video file]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GgbE-8rXVg&feature=emb_logo

ARTICLE PROCESSING FEES

To ensure equitable access to publishing opportunities, the OTESSA Conference Proceedings do NOT require any article processing charge (APC) or submission charges from authors. 

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) License. This licence allows anyone to share the work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it at no cost and without further permission, provided that appropriate attribution of initial publication in the journal is given, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear.

An example of attribution to used is as follows:

The article, {insert article title}, by {insert author name(s)} has been reproduced from the OTESSA Conference Proceedings under Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 CC-BY. 

Please link the article title directly to the article location on our website.

If you are redistributing or remixing one of our articles, please let us know by contacting us at conference@otessa.org, as we are interested in learning more about the frequency and context in which our papers are being used.

PUBLISHER

The owner/publisher of the OTESSA Conference Proceedings is the Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association, which is a non-profit corporation registered in Canada. The conference proceedings are hosted and supported by the University of Victoria Libraries.

ARCHIVING

This conference proceedings utilize the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the conference proceedings for purposes of preservation and restoration.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the conference proceedings published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in the OTESSA Conference Processings.