About the Journal

The Oñati Socio-Legal Series (ISSN 2079-5971) is an international peer-reviewed on-line journal which publishes work within the field of law and society. This is broadly defined to include work which makes a significant contribution to the understanding and analysis of law as a set of social institutions, processes, practices or techniques, using any methodologies and approaches from the social sciences and humanities. Oñati Socio-Legal Series is a 100% Open Access journal and is owned and published by the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.

Oñati Socio-Legal Series publishes original pieces of research. Papers previously published as preprints or working papers are accepted, as well as original reviews of literature. Papers are first reviewed at desk and, if pre-accepted, are sent out to double-blind peer-review by at least two external referees. Authors retain the copyright of their work at all times.

Focus and Scope

The Oñati Socio-Legal Series (ISSN: 2079-5971) is an international peer-reviewed on-line journal which publishes work within the field of law and society. This is broadly defined to include work which makes a significant contribution to the understanding and analysis of law as a set of social institutions, processes, practices or techniques, using any methodologies and approaches from the social sciences and humanities.

The IISL and its journal OSLS take pride in their cosmopolitan and all-inclusive vocation, especially regarding production and dissemination of high-profile academic knowledge. English being today's main vehicle of expression of scientific knowledge, it is also our journal's main language. However, although a title, abstract, and key words in English are mandatory for all papers, OSLS accepts and encourages use of other languages as well - by reason of the IISL's origin and location, Spanish, French and Basque are the other three main ones.

OSLS publishes, among others, monographic issues of articles resulting from or related to its academic activities or from external proposals, as well as individual papers.

Articles should normally be of 8-10,000 words, including title, abstract, and references.

Publication Frequency

The OSLS will publish one volume per year, with issues published bimonthly. Further special issues can be published.

Issues will be published on the first day of February, April, June, August, October, and December.

Ownership disclosure

Oñati Socio-Legal Series is owned and published by the Oñati IISL Foundation, a non-profit organization which was established jointly in 1988 by the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on the Sociology of Law (RCSL) and the Government of the Basque Country, which nowadays provides most of the funding.

To learn more, please read our Statutes: http://www.iisj.net/en/about-iisl/statutes-foundation-international-institute-sociology-law-o%C3%B1ati

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 cross-disciplinary global exchange of knowledge. Its sharing license is CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution, Non-commercial, No derivatives). Read more in our Copyright Notice.

Publication Charges

The IISL is a non-profit organisation, and Oñati Socio-Legal Series does not take any publication charge from the authors.

Oñati Socio-Legal Series operates on a principle of universal APC waiver: it offers a service of Diamond Open Access for which equivalent journals charge an average APC of 2,500 Euros per article.

Abstracting and Indexing services

Oñati Socio-Legal Series is included in the following Abstracting and Indexing services:

Archiving

This journal utilizes the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) plugin, developed by PKP to digitally preserve OJS journals. The PKP PN ensures that journals that are not part of any other digital preservation service (such as CLOCKSS or Portico) can be preserved for long-term access.

Digital archive preservation policy

This journal utilizes the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) plugin, developed by PKP to digitally preserve OJS journals. The PKP PN ensures that journals that are not part of any other digital preservation service (such as CLOCKSS or Portico) can be preserved for long-term access. The LOCKSS Editorial Manifesto on digital preservation is available at the following link: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/gateway/lockss

Interoperability protocols

This journal provides an interface OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that allows other websites and information services to harvest the published content metadata.

Specifications:

Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0
Metadata formats: Dublin Core Metadata: Dublin Core; MARC; MARC21; RFC1807

URL for harvesters: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/oai

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