Call for Articles
The Design Principles & Practices Journal Collection offers an interdisciplinary forum to explore the meaning and purpose of design. In professional and disciplinary terms, the network traverses a broad sweep to construct a trans-disciplinary dialogue, which encompasses a wide array of design paradigms and practices. We move between theoretical reflection on the nature of design and case studies of design practice, and from research-based perspectives to the experience-based perspectives of design insiders. We seek to build an epistemic community to make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. The journal collection is defined by our Research Network scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
We are working to change the way in which knowledge is produced, validated, and shared within member-based Research Networks.
We take research integrity seriously, following standards and best practices established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We’re also active members of key industry associations: Association of American Publishers, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, The Society for Scholarly Publishing, and Crossref.
We are committed to expanding the visibility, reach, and impact of research from the Design Principles & Practices Research Network. Journals in the Design Principles & Practices Journal Collection can be found in numerous databases, accessible via the libraries of institutional subscribers, and in the CGScholar Bookstore for current Research Network Members.
Decisions of what is published come from reviewers that are Members of the Research Network ensuring the knowledge is validated in horizontal social knowledge relations. Review scores are based on a clearly articulated rubric, and the result is a peer-review process that is scrupulously fair in its assessments while at the same time offering carefully structured and constructive feedback that enhances the quality of the published article.
A publishing process that is without prejudice to institutional affiliation, stage in career, national origins, or disciplinary perspectives. If the article is excellent, and has been systematically and independently assessed as such, it will be published.
Authors and reviewers, as Research Network members, gain subscriber access to the journal collection, ensuring that the product of their labor is also accessible to them.
We fully support the general principles of open and accessible research and seek to work collaboratively with all stakeholders in this time of disruptive change. We offer a variety of Open Access options to make your research accessible and make accessibility affordable.
We issue a call for papers on a quarterly basis, but authors can submit at any time.
| Submission Round 1 | 15 January | |
| Submission Round 2 | 15 April | |
| Submission Round 3 | 15 July | |
| Submission Round 4 | 15 October |
You can submit a manuscript and complete its peer review at no cost. After peer review, you’ll be notified that your work has entered the Rights Agreement phase, where you’ll select an appropriate contract.
We are a purpose-driven, member-based scholarly community. Annual Membership* to the Research Network includes 30,000 Points for use in the Rights Agreement phase towards publication fees.
Points do not expire, and you can have multiple Memberships across different Research Networks. This allows for accumulating enough points to cover any type of Rights Agreement.
+ Green Open Access
Green Open Access
| Member | + Green Open Access | Included |
| Non-Member | + Green Open Access | $250 USD |
(CC-BY-NC-ND)
Open Access (CC BY-NC-ND)
| Member | (CC BY-NC-ND) | $225 USD ** |
| Non-Member | (CC BY-NC-ND) | $525 USD |
(CC-BY)
Gold Open Access (CC-BY)
| Member | (CC-BY) | $425 USD ** |
| Non-Member | (CC-BY) | $725 USD |
Use the buttons below to submit your manuscript for review to one of the journals in the Collection.
Or you can use the generic portal in CGPublisher, the journal management tool used by our Research Network, to submit. If you do, select this Research Network and your desired journal in Article Basics.
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Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is an international membership trade body that supports and represents not-for-profit organizations and institutions that publish scholarly and professional content. With over 300 members in 30 countries, membership also includes those that work with these publishers.
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), founded in 1978, is a nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking, information dissemination, and facilitation of new developments in the field.
Crossref is a not-for-profit membership organization for scholarly publishing. Crossref and its members work to make content easy to find, link, cite, and assess by using online tools and services to improve research communications. Crossref's goal is to be a trusted collaborative organization with broad community connections; authoritative and innovative in support of a persistent, sustainable infrastructure for scholarly communication.
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