Open Access Statement

The Journal of Black Military Studies (JBMS) is the international, multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Black Military Studies, published in partnership with the University of Vermont Press. It is published digitally under a diamond open access model that makes scholarship more equitable and accessible: Authors can publish accepted work without publication fees, and readers can access all journal content immediately upon publication and without paywalls.

·   Submission is free.

·   Publication of accepted work is free.

·   Access to all published content is free to any reader, anywhere.

JBMS publishes in fulfillment of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) definition of Open Access:

“We define these as journals where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons or equivalent). This allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.”

JBMS content is published immediately, without an embargo period, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Material may not be modified for distribution or used for commercial purposes. 

JBMS is entirely free. It charges no fees to submit, publish, or read its content. There are no membership requirements to submit to or read the journal. Authors of work submitted for consideration must sign an author agreement form, acknowledging and accepting the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Copyright for published material remains with the author. After publication, authors may share their work widely in institutional repositories, on websites, and via social media.

JBMS adheres to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, authored by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), DOAJ, the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).

JBMS is supported by volunteer members of its Editorial Board, who provide scholarly expertise and guidance, and the UVM Press, which provides staffing and production resources. The journal is hosted on Janeway, a free, open source publishing platform developed by the Centre for Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London.

Copyright Notice

The Journal of Black Military Studies (JBMS) is the peer-reviewed diamond open access journal of the Society for Black Military Studies, published in partnership with the University of Vermont Press. Its content is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits copying and redistribution of the unmodified, unadapted article in any medium for noncommercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited. Attribution must include appropriate credit and provide a link to the license. Authors retain ownership of all rights under copyright in all versions of the published article. JBMS encourages authors to share the version of record and its DOI on social media and personal websites and blogs, in the classroom, and at conferences; to add it to ORCID and Google Scholar records; and to post it to an institutional repository and to scholarly collaboration networks.