About the Journal

The Science2Practice Journal (S2P) is an open-access journal published each fall and spring semester. To mirror the dual-role of every instructor, that of content-expert and facilitator, this publication follows a scholar-practitioner model. We welcome articles covering theory, scholarship, and practice in teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education. We also welcome articles that discuss the impact of co-curricular activities on student learning outcomes. In addition, a research article authored by an undergraduate student from our institution is included in each spring issue. All submissions are peer-reviewed.

Editorial Policies

Open Access Policy

S2P 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. There are no publication charges, and 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 in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author for non-commercial purposes. Nonetheless, reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein requires credit to the original publication source with a link to both the article and the license. This open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative’s (BOAI) definition of open access. We publish with Florida Online Journals and are supported by Eastern Florida State College (EFSC), located in Brevard County, Florida.

Copyright to Your Publication

By submitting to Science2Practice, authors agree to the terms of the Author Agreement (below). All authors retain copyrights associated with their contributions and agree to make such contributions available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license upon publication.

Author Agreement

This Author Agreement takes effect upon acceptance of the submission for publication in S2P:

· I hereby grant to EFSC the non-exclusive right to retain, reproduce and distribute the submission in whole or in part, in print and electronic format and in any medium. This agreement does not represent a transfer of copyright to EFSC.

· EFSC may make and keep multiple copies of the work for purposes of security, backup, preservation and access; and may migrate the work to any medium or format for the purpose of preservation and access.

· I represent and warrant to EFSC that the work is my original work and that I have the authority as sole author or I have the authority on behalf of my co-authors to grant the rights contained in this agreement. I also represent that the work does not, to the best of my knowledge, infringe or violate any rights of others.

· I further represent and warrant that I have obtained all necessary rights to permit EFSC to reproduce and distribute the work, including any third-party material. Alternatively, I represent that my use of any third-party material is allowed because the material is not in copyright or I have performed a fair use analysis and reasonably believe my use is permitted. Any content owned by a third party is clearly identified and acknowledged within the work.

Self-Archiving Policy

Authors are encouraged to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after publication, while providing bibliographic details that credit, if applicable, its publication in this journal.

Preservation Policy

S2P content will be archived indefinitely through Florida Online Journals (Florida OJ). Forward inquiries to the Editor.

Plagiarism Statement

Plagiarism is defined as “When somebody presents the work of others (data, words, or theories) as if they were his/her own and without proper acknowledgement.” (COPE) S2P will not accept plagiarized material including self-plagiarism. Suspected plagiarism be investigated. Plagiarism identified after publication will be amended or removed at the Editor’s discretion.

Use of Third-Party Copyrighted Materials

When submitting your manuscript, please be mindful of copyright laws in the United States and (if outside the U.S.) your home country. The S2P Journal respects the intellectual property of scholars, students, and publishers, and we ask that you secure appropriate permissions or evaluate whether your incorporation of images, figures, charts, quotations, and other materials falls within the scope of fair use/fair dealing.

If you are incorporating published materials that you have previously authored, be aware that in many cases your publisher may now own the copyright and you may need to seek permission to reprint your own work. The Eastern Florida State College Library provides resources on copyright and fair use, with an emphasis on U.S. Copyright Law.  Contact Maggie Stubbe, Copyright Coordinator.

Correction, Retraction, and Removal of Articles

Correction. Despite the best of efforts, errors occur and their timely and effective remedy are considered the mark of responsible authors and editors the S2P Journal will publish a correction if the scholarly record is seriously affected (e.g., if accuracy/intended meaning, scientific reproducibility, author reputation, or journal reputation is judged to be compromised). Corrections that do not affect the contribution in a material way or significantly alter the reader’s understanding of the contribution, such as misspellings or grammatical errors, will not be published. When a correction is published, it will link to and from the work. The correction will be added to the original work so that readers will receive the original work and the correction. All corrections will be as concise as possible.

Retraction. The S2P Journal reserves the right to retract items, with a retraction defined as a public disavowal, not an erasure or removal. Retractions will occur if the editors and editorial board finds that the main conclusion of the work is undermined or if subsequent information about the work comes to light of which the authors or the editors were not aware at the time of publication. Infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submission, inaccurate claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data will also result in retraction of the work.

Removal. Some circumstances may necessitate removal of a work from the S2P Journal. This will occur when the article is judged by the editors and editorial board to be defamatory, if it infringes on legal rights, or if there is a reasonable expectation that it will be subject to a court order. The bibliographic information about the work will be retained online, but the work will no longer be available through the Science2Practice Journal. A note will be added to indicate that the item was removed for legal reasons.

Data-Sharing Policy

Authors of research papers submitted for publication in the S2P Journal are encouraged to make the data underlying their articles available online whenever possible. For the purposes of this policy, the term “data” is understood broadly and refers to both quantitative and qualitative research outputs, spanning observations and analysis of social settings (producing numbers, texts, images, multimedia or other content) to numbers attained through instrumental and other raw data gathering efforts, quantitative analysis, text mining, or citation analysis, as well as protocols, methods, and code used to generate any specific finding reported in the paper. The Science2Practice Journal editorial board prefers that the data be submitted as supplemental files accompanying the article or be archived in a secure repository that provides a persistent identifier, assures long-term access, and provides sufficient documentation and metadata to support re-use by other investigators. Acceptable solutions include institutional repositories; repositories specifically focused on data curation, or domain specific repositories. If there is no relevant public repository available, and the data cannot easily be included in a supplement, authors should describe how the data are being curated and made available or, in the case where they cannot be made available (e.g., IRB restrictions), why that is so. In any case, a citation to the dataset should be made in the article itself in accordance with the data citation principles of the FORCE11 “Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles“, including an ORCID for the researcher(s) associated with the data. Finally, we recommend that whenever possible authors explicitly define the terms of re-use by assigning a license to their data, choosing, for instance, among Creative Commons or Open Data Commons licenses.

The S2P journal data policy does not require data publication and citation at this time due to still-emergent standards for data peer review; the lack of sufficiently robust and distributed infrastructure to support the variety of disciplinary research occurring in our field; uncertainty whether the Science2Practice Journal should provide a third mode of data publication in the form of “data papers” or “data descriptors”; and insufficient preparation and notification to the Science2Practice Journal. Authors unable to share their data must provide written explanation of this circumstance in their cover letter at the time of submission. 

S2P is committed to supporting requests for author name changes and/or pronoun changes, with as few barriers as possible. Name changes and/or pronoun changes are available to authors upon request, with no legal documentation required. Upon receiving a name change request, will update all metadata, published content, and associated records under our control to reflect the requested name change. S2P will not issue a notice of correction for the name change or notify co-authors or editors. While S2P cannot control the use or appearance of an author’s name for external systems and publications administered by other editorial boards, and changes made to prior publications may not propagate to downstream environments, the S2P is committed to collaborating with other groups to support systemic changes to ensure name changes are fully supported.

Authors who wish to update or change their name should contact the Editor. Requests will be treated with respect and confidentiality, and addressed as quickly as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

Eastern Florida State College is committed to creating a community that reflects the rich racial, cultural, and ethnic diversity of the state and nation. The S2P Journal contributes to this mission by promoting inclusivity through supporting open access; actively encouraging greater representation across cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints; and fostering transparency and openness throughout the publishing cycle.

To further our goals of diversity and inclusivity, it is recommended that authors, reviewers, and editors consider the following:

· Encourage participation of people from underrepresented groups as authors, reviewers, and editors.

· Include content from multidisciplinary scholars that fits publication scope.

· Create an editorial board that reflects the diversity of a global academic community.

· Maintain a clear and open process for article review and contribution.

 Sponsor

Eastern Florida State College

Journal History 

The Science2Practice Journal was developed by a group of faculty at Eastern Florida State College to improve communication and collaboration across all disciplines and departments at the College.