We warmly welcome responses and proposals for future themed issues at: FASS-open-arts-journal@open.ac.uk

Guidelines for contributors

• Please download the Open Arts Journal Style Guidelines for Contributors and read them in their entirety before submitting an essay to the Open Arts Journal.
• Please familiarise yourself with the feel and appearance of current and back issues of the Open Arts Journal, especially with regard to referencing style and captions.

Editorial Process

• Open Arts Journal is a peer-reviewed journal, published online and accessible to all.  Special editions may also be published as hard copies.
• Essays to be considered for publication must be submitted electronically, as a Word document, in UK English, and in accordance with the Open Arts Journal Style Guidelines for Contributors.
• Open Arts Journal does not publish previously published material and checks all submissions for plagiarism against previously published material.
• On receipt of an essay to be considered for publication, it is read by members of the editorial board, including the Editor.
• The Editor aims to inform potential contributors of a decision within three months of their submission.
• Authors are responsible for securing permission to reproduce images and quoted material in perpetuity.
• The Editor reserves the right to edit texts received. Substantial changes are made in consultation with the author.
• All essays accepted for publication will be sent to the author at proof stage.
• Authors retain copyright and publishing rights without restrictions.

Postal address: The Open Arts Journal, c/o Yvonne Bartley, Department of Art History, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom.