Submission Policies

The editors reserve the right to determine the suitability of submissions. For additional information, please contact the editors.

TRANSIT does not charge for article processing or articles submission.

Peer Review Process

Reviewers are encouraged to read our submission guidelines before reviewing submissions, and engage critically with the review process. We are concerned with originality, coherence, clarity, and significance of the material. Comments, critiques, and suggestions are conveyed to the author, but the reviewer's identity remains confidential. Authors' identities are not known by reviewers; TRANSIT uses double anonymous peer review. To be published, an article or monograph must receive two positive reviews, and the author must revise the work to address questions raised in the reviews. 

As part of its rigorous peer review process, TRANSIT also screens for plagiarism before publication.

Removal

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. However, we will remove publications under special circumstances, including in the case of submission errors, rights violations, or inappropriate content. Please be aware, however, that even after the removal of a work, a citation to the work will remain in our system, along with a URL.

If you would like your work removed from eScholarship, please contact the editors.

Revising Work

Once manuscripts are published, we are generally unable to revise them. If a significant error or omission is discovered, contact the editors.

Rights and Permissions

TRANSIT does not require copyright transfer, only permission to publish and archive the article. Copyright holders retain copyright ownership, granting a nonexclusive license to the journal and eScholarship to publish the article, meaning that the author may also publish it elsewhere. Before submitting an article to the journal, please be sure that all necessary permissions have been cleared in any third party material. 

All articles published in the journal are subject to the journal’s author agreement, which is available in the first step of the submission process or by contacting us to request a copy. From Volume 11 Issue 2 onward, articles in TRANSIT are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

Open Access Statement

As an open access journal, 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.

Long-term preservation policy

All materials submitted to eScholarship are automatically deposited in CDL's Merritt Preservation Repository for long-term preservation.