In many aspects of the guidelines, access and policies, GLOSSA Contact, sister journal of GLOSSA: General Linguistics (https://www.glossa-journal.org) and GLOSSA: Psycholinguistics (https://escholarship.org/uc/glossapsycholinguistics), follows the directions of our sister journals. 

Submission Policies

The editors reserve the right to determine the suitability of submissions. 

By default, Glossa Contact uses double-masked peer review. For more details, see our policy here.

Following article acceptance, Glossa Contact kindly asks those with access to institutional or grant funds to make the voluntary article contribution (VAC) of €500. These funds are used to cover the copyeditng and typesetting of articles, also subsidizing the processing of articles whose authors do not have access to institutional funding. As a reminder, VACs are essential for open-access journals. It goes without saying that the eventual contribution of an VAC has no effect on how the submission is processed; the possibility of such a contribution is only discussed after an article has been accepted and published, thus making it clear that reviewing and publication is not conditional on the VAC in any way. 

Removal and corrections

Once published, a journal article cannot generally be revised or removed. We feel it is important to provide perpetual access to materials published whenever possible and appropriate.

We will only remove publications under exceptional circumstances. Please be aware, however, that even after the removal of a work, a record of the prior existence of the work will remain in our system, along with a URL. 

Once manuscripts are published, we are generally unable to revise them. If a significant error or omission is discovered, contact the editors to discuss whether adding a correction (that is, a separate short notice linked to the original article) is reasonable in your case. 

Refer also to the related policy among the ethics policies. 

Rights and Permissions

Glossa Contact does not require copyright transfer, only permission to publish and archive the article. Copyright holders retain copyright ownership, granting a nonexclusive licence to the journal to publish the article, meaning that the author may in principle also publish it elsewhere. Specifically, we follow the practice of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), and require you to grant Glossa Contact the ability for the publisher to disseminate the work under Creative Commons license CCBY 4.0 (and in very rare circumstances under other CC licences).

Before submitting an article to the journal, please be sure that all necessary permissions have been cleared regarding any third party material. All articles published in the journal are subject to the journal’s author agreement, which the authors will be required to accept during the submission process. 

Open Access statement

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Competing Interests

Glossa Contact follows the policy on competing interests of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). A statement on competing interests is always obligatory. See Section 1.3 of the Stylesheet.