Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The aim of this journal publication is to disseminate the conceptual thoughts or ideas and research results that have been achieved in the area of community services and engagement.

Journal of Community Services and Engagement: Voice of Community (VOC), particularly focuses on the main problems in the development of the sciences of community services and community engagement areas as follows:

  1. Community Services, People, Local Food Security;
  2. Training, Marketing, Appropriate Technology, Design;
  3. Community Empowerment, Social Access;
  4. Student Community Services;
  5. Border Region, Less Developed Region;
  6. Education for Sustainable Development.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Every article that goes to the editorial staff will be selected through Initial Review processes by Editorial Board. Then, the articles will be sent to the Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer and will go to the next selection by Double Blind Peer Review Process. After that, the articles will be returned to the authors to revise. These processes take a month (four week) for a maximum time. In the each manuscript, Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer will be rated from the substantial and technical aspects. Mitra Bebestari/ peer reviewer that collaboration with Journal of Community Services and Engagement: Voice of Community (VOC) is the experts in the public administration area and issues around it. They were experienced in the prestigious journal management and publication that was spread around the national and abroad.

 

Publication Frequency

Journal of Community Services and Engagement: Voice of Community (VOC)  is published twice a year in two times issues, Number 1-2 are scheduled for publication: February and August.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...