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| AJET in brief | The Australasian Journal of Educational Technology is a refereed academic journal publishing research and review articles in educational technology, information and communications technologies for education, online and e-learning, educational design, multimedia, computer assisted learning, and related areas. AJET is published by the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE). Prior to Volume 20, 2004, AJET was published under the title Australian Journal of Educational Technology.
AJET invites submissions of articles in the length range 5000-8000 words. Original contributions are welcome from writers in any organisation in any country, and membership of a supporting society is not a requirement for submissions. Articles are subjected to peer review on a double blind, confidential basis by at least two referees from AJET's Panel of Reviewers. AJET is a recognised peer reviewed journal listed in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. Australian authors may note that articles published in AJET earn the classification "Journal Article" (previously known as "C1" category) for the purposes of DEST/DEEWR's Higher Education Research Data Collection, and AJET appears in DEST/DEEWR's Register of Refereed Journals. AJET's current ranking in the proposed Tiers for the Australian Ranking of Journals is "Tier A", although AJET declines to endorse the premises underlying the "Four tiers" proposal. In December 2007 AJET announced the retirement of its printed version, the last printed issue being Volume 23, Number 4. Henceforth AJET will be an open access, online only journal, ISSN 1449-5554. | ||
| Submission of articles |
We do not have specific closing dates, as each issue of AJET is prepared for website mounting when filled with accepted articles. Please submit articles to the Editor, as an email attachment, addressed to: ajet-editor@ascilite.org.auEmail for ajet-editor is forwarded automatically to the current Editor and Production Editor. Please read Advice for authors prior to preparing and submitting an article. | ||
| Management Committee |
In November 2006, the Editorial Board which undertook AJET management during 1997-2006 was succeeded by the new AJET Management Committee announced in AJET Editorial 22(4). The current Committee includes:
the 1997-2006 Editorial Board are gratefully acknowledged [ Past Members ] AJET's current [ Editorial Board ] was inaugurated in May 2009 | ||
| Editorial staff | Editor Associate Professor Catherine McLoughlin School of Education (ACT) Australian Catholic University PO Box 256, Dickson ACT 2602 Australia Tel: 61 2 6209 1100 Fax 61 2 6209 1185 Email: c.mcloughlin@signadou.acu.edu.au |
Production Editor and Business Manager Dr Roger Atkinson Unit 5, 202 Coode Street Como WA 6152 Australia Tel: +61 8 9367 1133 Email: rjatkinson@bigpond.com (email communications preferred please) | |
| Subscriptions | The availability of AJET on a paid subscription basis ended in December 2007, with the decision by AJET's Management Committee and ASCILITE on 4 December 2007 to cease production of AJET's printed version. Notifications to former subscribers and refunds for 2008 subscription renewals made before this decision were undertaken during 15-24 December 2007. We apologised to all subscribers for the absence of advice earlier than those dates. A detailed statement on the reasons for our decision and its timing appeared in AJET's first Editorial for 2008 [Editorial 24(1)].
We record with much appreciation the support that our subscribing libraries have given to AJET during its 23 years of print version production, 1985-2007. During 2008 we will prepare an acknowledgement page to recognise their contributions and to record the history of AJET's printed version. Details on free subscriptions to AJET, comprising email or RSS notifications of the availability of each new issue, will be provided during 2008. Printed version issues of AJET 1997-2008, Volumes 13-23, are available at nominal prices plus postage. Contact the Production Editor rjatkinson@bigpond.com for availability and details. | ||
| Publishing history | AJET was established in 1985 by the Australian Society for Educational Technology (ASET). From 1987 to 1996 publication was undertaken by AJET Publications, conducted by James Steele, John Hedberg and Sue McNamara. During 1997-2005, AJET was published jointly by ASET and the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) [see AJET Agreement 1998]. Following the dissolution of ASET in 2005 [ASET Archives], ASCILITE [ABN 49 432 203 625] became the sole managing society, publisher and business manager for AJET.
Up to Volume 19, 2003 AJET was published under the title Australian Journal of Educational Technology with ISSN 0814-673X. With Volume 20, 2004, AJET adopted a new title, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, with the new ISSN 1449-3098 (print) 1449-5554 (online). The reasons for the change of name were detailed in Editorial 20(1). In 2007 we announced the merger of IJET (International Journal of Educational Technology) with AJET, marked by the creation of the new IJET Archives. Currently AJET is published in four issues per year (prior to 1999, two issues per year; prior to 2005, three issues). AJET is indexed in ACER's Core Journals indexed in AEI (Australian Education Index), in the National Library of Australia's Australian Journals Online, in Vocational Education and Training Research Database, and in a number of international indexes including Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.. AJET's print version history spans the years 1985 to 2007, Volumes 1 to 23 inclusive. All issues were printed and bound in A5 size. In December 2007 AJET announced the retirement of its printed version, the last printed issue being Volume 23, Number 4. Henceforth AJET will be an open access, online only journal, ISSN 1449-5554. | ||
| Copyright history | Copyright in individual articles contained in Australasian Journal of Educational Technology is vested in each of the authors in respect of his or her contributions. Copyright in AJET is vested in ASET (1985-86), AJET Publications (1987-1996), ASCILITE and ASET (1997-2005), and ASCILITE (2006 onwards).
No part of AJET (other than single copies for private study purposes) may be reprinted or reproduced without permission from the publishers, except that authors (or an author's employer at the time of publication) may make multiple printed copies and public website or institutional repository copies of their own articles (subject to identifying each copy as an article which was published originally in AJET). For details, please see Copyright in AJET articles. | ||
| Website history |
During the period December 1996 to May 1997, Volumes 1-12 were placed on a website under the URL http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/gen/ajet/, succeeded in 2002 by the current website. Republishing of pre-1997 issues in AJET's website is by permission and was undertaken by Roger Atkinson, using scanning and optical character recognition applied to printed copies.
From 11 December 1996 to 26 March 2002 the AJET website maintained by Roger Atkinson was hosted on cleo in the Teaching and Learning Centre and its predecessors at Murdoch University. Relocation to the current website commenced on 26 March 2002 and was completed on 26 September 2002. During 1997-2007, the web version for each issue was subject to password controlled access for an 'embargo' period of three months from the date of commencement of the distribution of the printed version. Members of ASCILITE and a supporting society, ISPI Melbourne, were provided with a login name and password, via their members only emailing lists. Library subscribers to AJET were provided with a domain name exemption from password requirements. The password restriction was lifted after three months and the articles were then accessable to any Internet user. In December 2007, following the decision to retire the printed version, access controls for the web version of AJET were discontinued. Pre-2008 articles are available in HTML format. In 2008 we expect to offer both PDF (optimised for printing) and HTML (optimised for screen reading) file formats on AJET's website. PDF files for Volumes 13-23 may be obtained from the Production Editor.
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