About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Coolabah is the electronic version of the paper-edition journal formerly called EUCALYPT. It is the official journal of the Observatori: Centre d'Estudis Australians i Transnacionals (OCEAT) - The Observatory: Australian and Transnational Studies Centre at the University of Barcelona and caters for an academic audience. The journal aims to be an international forum for original research in the field of Australian and Transnational Studies from an interdisciplinary point of view; it is double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access and online, and published twice a year in its regular format. It also boasts guest-edited monographic issues occasionally, which are entitled as such. Coolabah only publishes articles written in English, which must adhere to the UB Llibre d'estil (https://www.ub.edu/llibre-estil/).

Coolabah is listed in the following databases and directories:

CARHUS+

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

EBSCO Academic Search “Ultimate”

ERA (Excellence in Australian Research)

ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)

MLA Periodicals and Journals

WorldCat OCLC

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Peer Review Process

COOLABAH, ISSN 1988-5946, is a double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal published twice a year. The journal counts with an Editorial Board of UB members, and a Scientific Committee with external advisors:

Editorial Board:

Isabel Alonso Breto (Universitat de Barcelona)

Maria Grau (Universitat de Barcelona)

Bill Phillips (Universitat de Barcelona)

Martin Renes (Universitat de Barcelona)

Scientific Committee:

Bill Boyd (Southern Cross University)

David Carter (University of Queensland)

Danica Čerče (University of Ljubljana)

Janie Conway Herron (Southern Cross University)

Kate Darian-Smith (University of Melbourne)

Kristina Everett (Macquarie University)

Paloma Fresno (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

Lucy Frost (Professor Emeritus, University of Tasmania)

Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney)

Bruce Gorring (Notre Dame University, WA.)

Oliver Haag (University of Edinburgh and 'The Austrian Centre for Transcultural Studies' [Vienna])

Felicity Hand (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona)

David Hoffman (Finnish Institute for Educational Research)

Anne Holden Ronning (Professor Emeritus, Bergen University)

Wendy Holland (University of Western Sydney)

Karen Hughes (Monash University)

Nigel Krauth (Griffith University)

Carol Leon (University of Malaya)

Donna Lee Brien (Central Queensland University)

Maureen Lynch Percopo (University of Cagliari - Retired)

Sara Martín (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

Alfredo Martínez Expósito (Melbourne University)

Martin Nakata (University of New South Wales)

Ulla Rahbek (University of Copenhagen)

Catalina Ribas (CESAG Alberta Gímenez, Mallorca, Illes Balears)

Mitchell Rolls (University of Tasmania)

Katrina Schlunke (University of Technology, Sydney)

Stephanos Stephanides (Cyprus University)

Socorro Súarez Lafuente (Oviedo University)

Cynthia Vanden Driessen (Edith Cowan University)

Chris Wallace-Crabbe (University of Melbourne)

Terri-ann White (Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia)

Eleanore Wildburger (Klagenfurt University)

All scientific articles are peer-reviewed and published as a regular issue, whereas non-scientific, academic articles are not peer-reviewed and are published as special monographs.

All authors who submit an article to Coolabah will receive an answer regarding their request whether their work has been selected or not, containing the reasons for the decision.

Publication Frequency

Journal issues are published twice a year. Occasionally, special monographic editions may be published alongside.

Open Access Policy

The journal adheres to the BOAI definition of Open Access in that users have the right to read, download articles, and save them for future reading. Any quotation from articles in Coolabah must carry the required reference to the journal, in accordance with our Creative Commons: cc-by

Declaration of publishing ethics and best practices

Coolabah subscribes the Declaration of publishing ethics and best practices for scientific journals published by the University of Barcelona.

The University of Barcelona promotes the open access publication of digital journals and endeavours to guarantee quality and conscientiousness in the transfer of scientific knowledge. The University is committed to ensuring that the articles it publishes and the publishing process itself observe the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It is therefore essential that all of the stakeholders in this process—journal editors, reviewers, technical editors and authors—know and act according to the Code.

Journal editors should :

- ensure that the decision to publish is not dependent on the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, country of origin, citizenship or political persuasion;

- publish regular updates on the responsibilities of authors, submission requirements, the arbitration system used to select the articles and the evaluation criteria to be applied by reviewers;

- publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed and not make use of any article received for UB-specific research assignments without the author’s consent;

- guarantee confidentiality during the review process, meaning (a) the anonymity of reviewers and authors and the confidentiality of the content of the articles, the reports submitted by reviewers and any other type of correspondence with or between the editorial, consultant and scientific committees and (b) confidentiality in the correspondence between the author and the journal committees or reviewers when the author wishes to clarify, change or complain about some aspect of the article;

- make certain that the integrity of articles already published is respected;

- act swiftly to eliminate from the journal or refuse to publish any article that has been found to plagiarise information from other sources.

Authors should

- understand that they are responsible for all submitted content;

- notify the journal editors of any errors in their published articles so that the appropriate corrections can be made;.

- guarantee that the article and associated materials are original and do not infringe on the rights of third-party authors and, when there are co-authors, guarantee that the consent of all the authors is obtained before the article goes to press.

Reviewers and technical editors should

- apply revisions that are objective, informed, critical, constructive and unbiased, where acceptance or rejection is based only on the work’s relevance, originality, interest to the public in question and compliance with the style and content regulations in the evaluation criteria;

- meet deadlines when this is possible and promptly inform the journal editor when it is not;

- avoid sharing, spreading or reproducing any information from articles still under review without permission from the corresponding journal editors or authors.

Journal History

Coolabah is the electronic journal of the paper edition journal formerly called EUCALYPT, and has been published online since 2007, two issues per year.