Call for Volunteers Spring 2023
The Journal of Integrated Studies (JIS) is looking for AU graduate student volunteers for the positions below. We are an interdisciplinary student journal and have been around for more than a decade. We publish one issue a year.
You will learn the peer-review process as part of our team, can add the experience to your CV, or simply join for the pleasure of doing meaningful work with an enthusiastic team.
This is the link to the journal and our most recent publication: http://jis.athabascau.ca/index.php/jis
Contact: Karolina Stecyk, Co-Editor for JIS if you want to volunteer with the journal: karolina.stecyk@utoronto.ca
CALL FOR SEVERAL POSITIONS
- EDITOR
Are you a MAIS student with editing experience? Are you interested in learning more about e-publishing and peer-reviewed journal work? Are you interested in expanding your MAIS involvement and honing your academic writing and editing skills? The position and skills can greatly enhance your CV.
If so, send us a 300-word piece about yourself, explaining your skills and interests and include an up-to-date CV. If you have applied to us before, please consider doing so again.
Two editors (i.e. “co-editors”) run the Journal of Integrated Studies and we are looking for someone to fill one of those positions. You will be trained by an outgoing JIS co-editor and other JIS team members. We hope to fill this position with someone who will stay 1-2 years minimum. You can be MAIS student or a MAIS graduate.
- ASSISSTANT EDITOR
Are you an AU graduate student with editing experience? Are you interested in learning more about e-publishing and peer-reviewed journal work? Do you like the idea of expanding your MAIS/educational involvement and honing your academic writing and editing skills? The position and skills can greatly enhance your CV and connect you more strongly to the student community. Consider volunteering with us.
Send us a 200-300-word piece about yourself, explaining your skills and interests and include an up-to-date CV. If you have applied to us before, please consider doing so again. An added bonus: this year (2020) you will be helping us create our 10th anniversary issue!
We are looking for two assistant editors. The JIS editorial team will help you develop your skills and guide you to learn the online publishing process. We hope to fill this position with students who will stay 1-2 years minimum. You can be MAIS student or a MAIS graduate or an AU graduate student interested in interdisciplinary work.
Key JIS Assistant Editor duties include the following:
- Shepherding submissions (generally articles, but occasionally book reviews or creative works) through the peer-review process. This requires coordinating reviews, consolidating and communicating reviewer feedback to authors, and making editorial decisions based on reviewer recommendations.
- Once a submission has been accepted for publication, working with JIS co-editors and supporting the author through the copy editing, layout, and proofreading stages.
- Attendance at JIS teleconference meetings (typically once every 4-6 weeks, but sometimes more frequently around publication time).
- Regularly updating submission tracking sheets and communicating issues with journal co-editors and/or other JIS volunteers.
- CoPY eDIToRS
Did these ill-typed words catch your eye? Are you a stickler for grammar, punctuation, formatting, and beyond? The devil is in the details, and we’re looking for detail-oriented individuals who can scour a piece until the great work beneath shines through! Copy editing work tends to ebb and flow with the JIS publishing schedule, with higher volumes of work immediately before publication (1-2 times per year). Copy Editors can adjust the number of pieces they take on according to the demands of their schedules.
If any of these positions appeal to you, send us a 150-word piece about yourself, explaining your skills and interests and include an up-to-date CV. If you have applied to us before, please consider doing so again.
The JIS editorial team will help you develop your skills. We hope to fill these positions with students who will stay 1-2 years minimum. You can be a MAIS student, a MAIS graduate or an AU graduate student interested in interdisciplinary work.
4. LAYOUT EDITOR
Learn the skills to do online peer review publishing with Open Journal Software alongside our experienced
layout editor. You should be tech savvy to apply for this position. You can be a graduate student from any
AU program. You must be able to work with some coding, stylesheets, and have a willingness to learn
more. You will be trained. (Commitment: 4 hours max. a month and a bit more just before publication)
5. REVIEWERS
Read and comment on work submitted as part of the peer review process. No experience is necessary; we
have useful resources to assist you. We require only that you have an interest in offering constructive
feedback on academic work. You can indicate your areas of interest and expertise. (2-4 hours per article once or twice a year)