Policies
Following the decision of the GAMLE Board of Directors, Becoming: Journal of the Georgia Association for Middle Level Education has ceased publication. Volume 31, Issue 1 (2020) is the final published issue. This website serves as the official archive for volumes 29 through 31, which were originally published online. All previous volumes were published in print.
For more information, contact digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu.
Open Access Policy
Becoming is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Review Process
Becoming is a double-blind peer reviewed journal.
Copyright & Licensing Terms
All papers published in Becoming are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Authors retain all copyrights without restrictions, and agree to the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license for their work as a condition of publication.
End users' rights under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license are outlined here. For all other purposes, permission must be obtained from the author.
Plagiarism Policy
Becoming may use Similarity Check, a multi-publisher initiative, to selectively screen article submissions for originality. Similarity Check uses the iThenticate software, which checks submissions against millions of published research papers (the Similarity Check database), documents on the web, and other relevant sources. These submitted papers are not retained in the Similarity Check system after they have been checked. Read more at Crossref's Similarity Check & Researchers page.
Charges & Fees
Becoming levies no submission charges, or charges or fees for publication of accepted articles.
Digital Archiving
Becoming is preserved using CLOCKSS, a leading preservation archive that guarantees persistent access to journal content for the very long term. Articles also receive Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) through Crossref to ensure they can always be found.