Section Policies

Editorial

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Forum

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Research Papers

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Conference Papers

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Notes

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

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.

Archiving

The CLOCKSS system has permission to ingest, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit. CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a not for profit joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community. Content no longer available from a publisher is republished with a creative commons license to ensure it remains available, forever. More...

This journal also utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Article Processing Charges

For each paper accepted for publication, the author(s) will be asked to contribute an Article Publication Charge (APC) of £100 to cover publication costs. We keep the operating costs for Present Pasts as low as possible, but as the journal is distrubuted freely, we need to try to recover these costs somewhere.

Authors are able to pay any amount from nothing to full charge, as we recognise that not everyone has access to funding, and we do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work. The editor and peer reviewers of the journal will not know what amount (if any) has been paid, and this will in no way influence whether an article is published or not.