About Silva Iaponicarum

WELCOME!

Welcome to Silva Iaponicarum 日林, a Japanese studies biannual devoted to the broadly comprehended field of Japanology in humanities and social studies.

Silva Iaponicarum was founded in 2004 at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and has since been published as a joint venture of Polish centres of Japanese studies in Poznań, Cracow, Warsaw and Toruń.

Currently, Silva is released according to the Spring : Autumn biannual schedule.  The now international Editorial Board includes representatives of Japanology centres inPoznań, Cracow, Toruń, Sapporo and Durham.

Double-blinded peer-reviewed research papers (academic papers) introducing original research in Japanese studies constitute the core of our biannual. The Silva fascicles also involve reviews of the newest Japan-related publications, English translations of Japanese (and Japonic) texts, and Japanologist miscellanea.

Academic papers (research papers) are the only genre of texts published in Silva subjected to peer review. Acceptance of contributions in other sections of Silva depends on the Editorial Board’s discretion.

You are cordially invited to contribute your texts and ideas to any of the above. Your creativity and out-of-the-box thinking will be much appreciated. Your academic degree, length of research experience or institutional background make no difference to us. Yes, Ph. D. candidates, graduate students, independent researchers, your proposals, too, will be most welcome 😊.

We accept contributions in English and Japanese. We welcome both individual papers and proposals for thematic issues. Our homepage contains up-to-date information on the current calls for papers.

We are waiting for your proposals, questions and feedback at the following e-mail address: silva.iaponicarum.quarterly@gmail.com. Also, feel free to check what’s new at our Facebook fanpage

何卒よろしくお願いいたします。

Silva Iaponicarum Editorial Board

TARGET READERSHIP

The content published in Silva is targeted primarily at specialists in Japanese studies and other representatives of academia, including graduate and undergraduate students, whose research interests are Japan-oriented or Japan-related.

AIMS AND SCOPE

The purpose of the journal is to provide a Poland-based venue for sharing the outcomes of high-quality and up-to-date research in any field of Japanology in the area of humanities and social studies, in particular, although not limited to, linguistics, literature, cultural, social and political studies.

The scope of the journal is worldwide, accepting original contributions from any academic center regardless of where it is based. One key area of the Silva Iaponicarum activity is fostering the dissemination of research results by young researchers, for which reason submissions from promising M.A. and Ph.D. students are actively encouraged.

OPEN ACCESS STATEMENT

Silva Iaponicarum is an Open Access journal. It operates under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license.

This type of license “enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use”. (Source: CreativeCommons.org https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/).

The journal does not charge any fees at any stage of publication (submission, evaluation, revision, editing, dissemination).

COPYRIGHT TERMS

Authors publishing in Silva Iaponicarum retain the copyright of their papers without restriction. The conditions of licensing of the published work to the journal are stipulated by the Author’s agreement to be signed prior to publishing. 

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