Journals

Continua is an Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal whose contributions explore aspects of the mental lexicon, the conceptualization of ‘words’, and the intersection of morphological phenomena with phonological, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic factors. The journal targets submissions that incorporate comparative, typologically diverse, and/or experimental data sets with theoretical models that seek to advance our collective understanding of morphological theory and its interfaces as well as the properties of the mental lexicon.

Digital Literary Studies (DLS) published scholarly articles on research concerned with computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism, or critical/literary approaches to electronic literature, digital media, and textual resources. DLS is no longer active and is not accepting submissions.

Geomorphica is a community-led and community-driven Diamond Open Access journal that promotes academic discourse and disseminates research results pertaining to all aspects of geomorphology, including, but not limited to, landscapes and landforms, earth and other planetary near-surface processes, and the mechanisms, dynamics and timescales pertaining to these processes.

Honors in Higher Education (HHE) was the journal of HERU: Honors Education at Research Universities, which existed to support honors education in research universities. Articles addressed a range of topics (e.g., curriculum, undergraduate research, community service) that are relevant to the basic goals of honors education: identifying and supporting the most motivated and talented students as they prepare not only for successful careers, but also for life-long learning and meaningful civic engagement. HHE published its first and final issue in May 2016 and is no longer accepting submissions.

Hyphen is a journal edited by Ph.D. students of the Department of Architecture at Penn State’s Stuckeman School. In a crowded field of architectural publications, Hyphen’s aim is for the journal to serve as a much-needed platform for speculation, experimentation, dialogue, and debate, bridging the divide between the specialized bodies of architectural knowledge that prevail not only in our department but also, increasingly, in the discipline at large. The journal proudly invites students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners in architecture and related disciplines to submit.

IK: Other Ways of Knowing was an electronic, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed open access journal that published original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of Indigenous knowledge from a global perspective. IK ceased publication at the end of 2019 and is no longer accepting submissions.

The International Journal of Education & the Arts currently serves as an open access platform for scholarly dialogue. Our commitment is to the highest forms of scholarship invested in the significances of the arts in education and the education within the arts. The journal primarily publishes peer reviewed research-based field studies including, among others, aesthetics, art theory, music education, visual arts education, media education, drama education, dance education, education in literature, and narrative and holistic integrated studies that cross or transcend these fields.

Founded in 2009, the International Journal of Illich Studies (IJIS) was an open access, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to engaging the thought and writing of Ivan Illich and his circle. IJIS ceased publication as of 2021 and is no longer accepting submissions.

Seeking to develop the next generation of Americanists, New Errands: The Undergraduate Journal of American Studies’ mission is to provide a venue for the publication of important original scholarship by emerging young scholars and to provide a teaching resource for instructors of American Studies looking for exemplary work to use in the classroom. New Errands is jointly published by the Eastern American Studies Association and the American Studies Program at Penn State Harrisburg.

The Occasional Papers in Anthropology series was established in 1965 with an enduringly valuable research report by William Sanders, Cultural Ecology of the Teotihuacan Valley.  This work and others originally published in print for the series are now available on this journal site, with support from editor Susan Toby Evans.

The research published within the Penn State Journal of Medicine (PSJM), which was founded in 2019, is the work of students that allows for advancement of medical education via clinical outcome, basic science, medical education, quality improvement, health systems research, and any other research that may be of importance to the clinical field. The audience of PSJM includes medical students, residents, fellows, attending physicians, other clinical faculty, clinical scientists, and any other interested readers at the Penn State College of Medicine and beyond the College of Medicine.

The mission of the Penn State University Libraries’ Magazine’s mission was to represent the PSU Libraries and feature student work across all Penn State campuses, spotlighting students’ creative work, promoting Library news, and connecting the Penn State student body with their Libraries and each other. The Penn State Libraries Magazine ceased publication as of 2024 and is no longer accepting submissions.

Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, a peer-reviewed journal, provides a forum for scholarship on public rhetoric, civic writing, service-learning, and community literacy. Originally founded as a venue for teachers, researchers, students and community partners to share research and discuss the theoretical, political and ethical implications of community-based writing and writing instruction, Reflections publishes a lively collection of scholarship on public rhetoric and civic writing, occasional essays and stories both from and about community writing and literacy projects, interviews with leading workers in the field, and reviews of current scholarship touching on these issues and topics.

The Center for Rural Pennsylvania publishes Rural Policy - The Research Bulletin of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania twice a year to make its sponsored research more widely available. Contributing authors are faculty members from The Pennsylvania State University, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education universities, and the regional campuses of the University of Pittsburgh. The Center's research is publicly funded and is in the public domain.

Drawing on scholarship in the fields of history, literary studies, media and communications, anthropology, folkloristics, sociology, and American studies, among others, SOAR: Society of Americanists Review's mission was to bring together an interdisciplinary and international conversation on the history, culture, and social life of the United States. SOAR ceased publication at the end of 2023 and is no longer accepting submissions.

Stroke Clinician publishes original papers focused on clinical practice and clinical research related to the field of stroke and neurovascular diseases. Stroke Clinician also features review articles, pro/con debate controversies, protocol and methods papers, selected case reports and other original articles deemed to be of interest to our stroke practitioner readers. The journal’s mission is to support the dissemination of neurovascular evidence-based practice knowledge that enriches the contribution of interprofessional stroke clinicians.

TFH: The Journal of History and Folklore is an online journal devoted to connections of folklore with history and to the history of folklore studies. TFH’s purview includes oral history, narrative, museology, local and regional history, and historiography. The journal accepts research articles, bibliographic studies, historiography, and translations, among a range of other types of pieces that can elucidate the intersections of history and folklore studies. TFH is the continuation of the print journal The Folklore Historian.

The Mentor: Innovative Scholarship on Academic Advising is a peer-reviewed, electronic, open access journal devoted to introducing new and unsettling existing ideas relevant to academic advising in higher education. Founded in 1999 and originally known as The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal, it was renamed The Mentor: Innovative Scholarship on Academic Advising in 2018 to reflect its rich history of publishing innovative ideas.

Transformative Dialogues (TD) is a forum for conversations intended to foster the improvement of teaching and learning in post-secondary education. TD facilitates the multi-disciplinary intellectual debate and inquiry, exchange of ideas, actions, and results of innovative and professional practice in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. These conversations are intended to span a wide range of reflections on the processes of teaching and learning ranging from the scholarly to scholarship. The international dialogues are focused on improving faculty and, therefore, student learning, and critical thought processes in their current and future lifelong learning. The journal promotes the principle that strategies, techniques, and methods of teaching and learning transcend the boundaries of specific subject fields.