About the Journal
About
ISSN 2052-3629 (Online)
First published in 1957, Scottish Studies reflects the mission of the University of Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies, founded in 1951 to preserve and explore Scotland's cultural and linguistic heritage.
Scottish Studies is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal. All content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, unless otherwise stated. There are no fees to access or publish in the journal.
Aims & Scope
Scottish Studies is the journal of the School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh. The journal reflects the eight main research areas of the school: tales, custom and belief, material culture, song, instrumental music, place-names, dialectology and social organisation. Research topics have included archaeology and pre-history; demographics; ethnography and ethnology; history, land use and distribution; fishing and seafaring; material culture; onomastics; oral culture and traditions; and spiritual beliefs, customs and observances. Today we also welcome research centering on Scotland's evolving landscapes, physical and social, and the peoples who call Scotland home in the twenty-first century.
Articles may be submitted in English, or in Scottish Gaelic with an abstract in English.
Please note that articles should be submitted by email directly to the editor, using the subject line: Scottish Studies.
Publication Frequency
Scottish Studies publishes one issue per year.
Journal Policies
Please see the Journal Policy page for information on preservation, copyright, licensing, open access, permissions, and privacy.
Indexing
Scottish Studies is indexed in the following databases:
- Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
- Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
- BrowZine
- CORE
- Jisc Open Policy Finder
- JournalTOCs
- MLAIB: Modern Language Association International Bibliography
- Paperity
- Publication Forum (JuFo)
- Researcher
