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Philosophy of Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

For more information, please see Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature Aims and Scope page.

Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the owners of the copyrights to their works.

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General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic) unless approved by the editor. Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, please contact the editors.

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Formatting Requirements

See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details on formatting and style for submissions. Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.

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Rights for Authors and SWOSU Digital Commons

If published, your work will automatically be licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND agreement. This means others may share your work, but it must be attributed to you, they cannot make a profit from sharing it, and nobody can make a derivative product from it. For example, this allows an instructor to assign it to a class to read without having to ask permission or pay a fee.

Authors retain all rights to their submissions, except for the specific rights given to Mythlore for initial publication, future reprints in print or electronic (including online) formats, and distribution to our third party database partners. You are free to reuse this work in future writings, agree to its republication in other venues after its appearance in Mythlore, or save it in an electronic institutional or self-archive, but we ask that you include an acknowledgment statement indicating the item originally appeared in Mythlore.

By submitting to Mythlore, you agree to allow us to do the following with this specific submission if we accept it: We can publish it in print and electronic formats as part of the issue for which it is accepted. (We cannot republish it in another collection or issue without your permission.) We can contract to provide this content for inclusion in various subscription databases. (Any income from the use of Mythlore content in these databases goes to the Mythopoeic Society to support Mythlore’s continued publication.) And we can provide this content to the Library of Congress for reproduction and distribution to blind and physically handicapped users.

In return, we will include this work on our journal platform in perpetuity, and include metadata and other information about it in our Mythlore Index Plus. If you have contributed a refereed article, you are entitled to a complementary paper copy of the full issue it appears in If you have contributed a Note, Letter, Review, or other content, you are entitled to a complementary electronic copy of the full issue.

Attribution and Usage Policies

We request that any further republication or posting of the article or any material therein includes credit to Mythlore as the original publisher.

Personal-use Exceptions

The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission from Mythlore or the SWOSU Digital Commons:

  • Storage and back-up of the article on the author's computer(s) and digital media (e.g., diskettes, back-up servers, Zip disks, etc.);
  • Posting of the article, or link to the article, on the author(s) personal website;
  • Posting of the article, or link to the article, on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository affiliated with the author(s)'s place of employment, or other non-commercial open access publication site; and
  • Posting of the article, or link to the article, on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author.

While the author retains copyright and can make most uses of the material without permission, it is suggested that he or she should contact the editors with any other questions.

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General Terms and Conditions of Use

Users of the SWOSU Digital Commons website and/or software agree not to misuse the SWOSU Digital Commons service or software in any way.

The failure of SWOSU Digital Commons to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between SWOSU Digital Commons and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.

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