Journal profile
KULA
ISSN 2398-4112 · University of Victoria Libraries · Canada
KULA: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 30 weeks (community reports); 10 articles in 2025; the journal's website says submissions are paused or closed.
The journal's website says submissions are paused or closed: This journal is not accepting submissions at this time. Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
KULA is published by University of Victoria Libraries. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Digital Humanities and Scholarship, Digital and Traditional Archives Management and Library Science and Information, together about 34.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies is a peer-reviewed, diamond open-access journal meant to encourage the formation of a multidisciplinary community of scholars studying human knowledge processes through the ages and concerned to understand the role of those processes in the full sweep of human civilizations and project them into the future from both humanistic and technological perspectives. Human civilizations throughout the ages have found it appropriate to devote significant resources to knowledge creation, capture, dissemination, and preservation using the intellectual frameworks and technical resources of their times. In our era we face unprecedented rapidity in advances in digital technologies that provide new modes of support for knowledge processes with no foreseeable limit to their increasing capabilities or the variety of modes of research dissemination. To date, emerging digital technologies have been used to provide more effective support for the activities of scholarly communities that seem little changed over the millennia except for a growth in magnitude that largely reflects human population growth. For those interested in human knowledge processes - as researchers, technology developers, or professionals with institutional responsibilities for the support of scholarly communities - many questions have been arising about the evolution of knowledge processes and their support: If change is largely technology-driven, the repurposing of available technologies to address scholarly needs, then what are those needs? How do they relate to more general needs that are driving technological advance? Is the nature of scholarship itself evolving under the impact of technology? How should resources be deployed to enable individuals and institutions to take advantage of the new technologies whilst avoiding the many transitory phenomena that arise during a period of rapid change and can be wasteful of resources? How do we best enable innovative exchange across disciplines to envision new knowledge processes? How do we ensure the long-term preservation of knowledge in the digital context?
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Jonathan BengtsonPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Canada 3 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Digital Humanities and ScholarshipArts and Humanities12.7%
- Digital and Traditional Archives ManagementArts and Humanities11.9%
- Library Science and InformationComputer Science10.3%
- Publishing and Scholarly CommunicationArts and Humanities9.9%
- Library Science and Information SystemsComputer Science6.8%
- Indigenous Health, Education, and RightsSocial Sciences6%
- Academic Publishing and Open AccessDecision Sciences4.8%
- Indigenous Cultures and HistorySocial Sciences4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Google Scholar, OCLC, PorticoPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 10OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 10OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 124 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 16 | 16 | 76 |
| 2025 | 10 | 10 | 100 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 86 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 80 |
| 2022 | 22 | 22 | 70 |
| 2021 | 17 | 17 | 29 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 30 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 30 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Editorial review, Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted12, with length limits
- chapter and verseChapter and Verse From Variety to Uniformity in Scholarly Source Citation PracticeLength not stated
- commentariesCommentaries Invited submissions only.Length not stated
- conversationsConversations Invited submissions only.Length not stated
- discussion papersDiscussion Papers Moving Citational Justice from the Print Age into the Artificial Intelligence AgeLength not stated
- introductionIntroduction Citational Politics and Justice Introduction Sally Wyatt 1-4Length not stated
- invited articlesInvited articles present original scholarly work. Similar to research articles in length and scope, they are invited by section editors for inclusion in themati…Length not stated
- methods articlession Indexed Peer reviewed Word count: Methods articles should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words. Word count includes notes but does not include references.main text ≤ 9,000 words
- methods articlesMethods articles should present new techniques for research and scholarship and discuss the significance of and possible applications of these techniques. Artic…Length not stated
- project reportsProject Reports Critical Citation in a Canadian Context The Development of Citation Justice Resources at the University of Victoria LibrariesLength not stated
- research articlession Indexed Peer reviewed Word count: Research articles should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words (including notes but not references). Conversations Invitedmain text ≤ 9,000 words
- research articlesResearch articles should present the findings of unpublished original research. Authors should make a substantial contribution to scholarship by identifying a r…Length not stated
- teaching reflectionsTeaching Reflections Our Writing Could Be Otherwise Reflections on Teaching Citational Politics as an Aspect of Academic WritingLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Self-archiving
- Authorship
Authors retain copyright Model summary
Retain copyright – you retain copyright to your article and are free to disseminate it, make copies, deposit it in any repository, and more.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Copyright retained by authors; licensed under CC BY 4.0. Model summary
Authors grant KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies the right of first publication of their work but retain copyright, with their work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). Under that license, others may share the work if they acknowledge the work’s authorship and initial publication in KULA. Authors can enter into separate, a…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
KULA provides immediate open access to all content. There is no embargo on publications. Submission and acceptance dates, along with publication dates, are made available on the PDF format for each paper. Authors grant KULA the right of first publication of their work but retain copyright, with their work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). Under that license, others…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Coordinator and Copyeditor
Karina Greenwood (MSt), University of Victoria Libraries; PhD student, University of British Columbia
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving
Any version can be deposited in any repository/archive Model summary
Comply with archiving policies – you can deposit any version of your paper in any required repository or archive, and post articles on your personal or institutional website.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- University of Victoria Libraries
- Country or region
- Canada
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2398-4112
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 9, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about KULA
How long does peer review take at KULA?
Authors report an average review time of about 30 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of KULA based?
Of the 3 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Canada (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index KULA?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, KULA is indexed in DOAJ.
Is KULA open access, and what is the APC?
KULA is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .