Statement of Editorial Policy
The British Records Association (BRA) promotes the preservation, understanding, accessibility and study of our recorded heritage for public benefit: the nation’s records preserved, accessed and interpreted for the benefit of all.
The Association’s journal, ARCHIVES, supports these aims by providing information about the whereabouts, interpretation and historical significance of records in all media. It publishes essays, commentaries, case studies and reports on all aspects of the care, preservation, accessibility and use of archives. It welcomes submissions from archive users, archivists, historians and other professionals including established and newly emerging scholars that:
- provide case studies in the use of archival resources;
- promote scholarly analysis of the history of archives and the impact on users of record keeping practices, past, present and future;
- report projects and discoveries, including the research potential unleashed by significant new accessions and cataloguing projects;
- provoke discussion of archival issues within the user community;
- provide guidance about the use and meaning of archival resources and the linkages between them;
- communicate archival trends, theories and practices to a wider audience.
ARCHIVES includes short edited documents as well as reviews of recent publications, web sites and archival exhibits (physical or virtual).
ARCHIVES is a peer reviewed journal. It is published simultaneously in print and digital form by Liverpool University Press. There is no upper limit on the length of submissions but it is anticipated that very few will be longer than c.8,000 -10,000 words including notes. It is published twice yearly.
Submissions must be the original work of the author(s) that have not been published previously or are soon to be.
Articles sent to ARCHIVES for consideration for publication should not be submitted simultaneously to any other journal or journals.