Typical Submission Routes

The Journal submission process is unlike that of a conference, workshop or symposium.

1. Regular submission.

These are original manuscripts submitted to JOCCH that have not been published anywhere else.

2. Extended or significantly improved version of a paper presented at an vent.

A paper previously published in a workshop, symposium or conference can be submitted to JOCCH for consideration if it contains sufficient new material, such as the exploration of effectiveness of novel techniques or technologies applied to digital data in genuine Cultural Heritage applications or the usability of tools or techniques by Cultural Heritage professionals in the field. In some cases papers submitted via this route will be considered on the recommendations of the International Program Committee of related conferences affiliated to ACM or ACM special interest groups.

Format

We prefer manuscripts submitted as PDF files, but can also accept PostScript or Microsoft Word documents. Supplementary electronic material can accompany a submission, and can be made available with the paper on the JOCCH web page immediately upon acceptance and in the ACM Digital Library after the submission is published.

Instructions and style files are available for formatting an ACM Journal submission using LaTeX or Microsoft Word. See: Submitting Articles to ACM Journals

Copyright forms can be downloaded from here: http://www.acm.org/publications/copyright_form/

Process

JOCCH accepts submissions electronically via Manuscript Central. Authors should create an account and password, login selecting “Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage”, and proceed to the Author Center to submit a manuscript. A submitted paper must overcome several hurdles in its quest for publication in JOCCH:

1. An administrative assistant first checks the submission for completeness and notifies the Editor-in-Chief.
2. The Editor-in-Chief then determines if the paper is appropriate for consideration by JOCCH and, if so, assigns it to several referees, who will include referees responsible for both the technical and the cultural heritage perspectives appropriate to the results being reported.
3. The referees read the submission and assess it against the criteria for inclusion in the journal including novelty, impact, correctness and relevance to the cultural heritage sector, and each
   returns a review and recommendations on the acceptability of the submission to the Editor-in-Chief.
4. The Editor-in-Chief, based on the reviews and recommendations, takes a decision on the acceptability of the submission, and communicates to the author this decision along with the reviewers’ comments.

The decision may take one of four forms:

1. The submission is accepted as is.
2. The submission is accepted subject to minor amendments which do not require an additional full refereeing process.
3. The submission is appropriate but elements of it require a level of improvement which means that an additional full cycle of reviewing will be required. This would normally be undertaken by the original referees unless there were specific needs for additional opinions. In order to achieve timely publication the authors will normally be given a maximum of six months to make the required changes and acceptance of the revised submission will need to take into account relevant developments since the original submission.
4. The paper is rejected on a basis described with the decision. This could include the decision that the submission did not address the scope of the Journal, or that the results described replicated work already published and hence had insufficient originality.

Target Timescales

Our goal is to get accepted submissions out to the community as soon as possible.
We strive to complete this process from submission to decision in four months, though some papers can require longer periods to perform the complete and thorough evaluation required.
If at any time during this process we determine your submission is inappropriate for consideration by the JOCCH, we will notify the lead contact immediately so the problem can be fixed or the submission can be sent to a more appropriate venue. This is in the best interest of the author(s) and the timely publication of the submission as it avoids a lengthy review process that would nevertheless result in rejection.

The JOCCH is published electronically in the ACM Digital Library. Accepted submissions are grouped into four issues per year. A complete volume will be published on paper, accompanied by other material in appropriate digital format.