VAKKI Publications focuses on language, discourse and communication in professional settings. Each year, the theme of the journal issue corresponds to that of the annual VAKKI Symposium, and the presenters of the symposium are welcome to submit a full paper corresponding to their presentation. VAKKI Publications is multilingual; articles may be written in Finnish, Swedish, English, or German.
The articles are peer-reviewed in a double blind process. We expect that manuscripts state the aim, theoretical background, data and method (for empirical papers), findings and conclusions. Manuscripts that have already been published will not be accepted.
VAKKI Publications is an open access journal and it is rated level 1 in the Finnish Publication Forum. In addition, the journal is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
For more information about the publisher, please visit the VAKKI Communication Research Association’s website.
Peer review policy
Article manuscripts will be selected for publication through a double-blind peer review process, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from each other throughout the review process. The journal has a pool of qualified referees from institutions of higher education.
In addition to peer reviewed articles, the journal publishes editorial introductions and plenary talks by invited speakers of the VAKKI Symposium. Other formats may be suggested to the Editor-in-Chief.
Editorial board and editors
The editorial board of VAKKI Publications consists of members of the executive board of the VAKKI Communication Research Association. The Editor-in-Chief is a member of the editorial board and supervises the editorial team in the case there is one or more associate editors.
Open Access Policy
We beliveve that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. VAKKI Publications therefore provides immediate open access under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Licence (CC BY-NC). The CC BY-NC licence permits users to use, reproduce, disseminate or display the article provided that the author is attributed as the original creator and that the reuse is restricted to non-commercial purposes i.e. research or educational use. The author has the copyright but VAKKI Publications has the right of first publication. When the article is used e.g. for educational or other non-commercial purposes, the user is expected to mention the author(s), the title of the publication, the name and the number of the publication series (VAKKI Publications) and URL-address.
The license of the published metadata is Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).
Authors are not charged for publications in this journal, neither submission fee nor article processing fee.
Policy on archiving publications in parallel repositories
After the VAKKI Publications manuscript is published by VAKKI, authors are recommended to publish their article in their own university’s institutional Open Access repository or on other sites. The repository version is allowed to be the final article that also appears in VAKKI Publications. The link to the original article must be given. The author may publish the article as part of her/his thesis, even if the thesis is an online version. If necessary, submitted and accepted versions of manuscripts may form parts of doctoral theses.
For over 40 years, VAKKI-Association for Communication Research has been actively linking, developing and supporting language and communication research professionals in Finland and worldwide.
VAKKI publishes the academic journal VAKKI Publications and edited volumes focusing on language, discourse and communication in professional settings. The articles are open access, peer-reviewed in a double blind process, and written in Finnish, Swedish, English and German.
