About the Journal

General mission
The electronic Journal on Environment and Sustainability (e-JES) is a student-based open access e-Journal with scientific and professional articles on the multidisciplinary field of environment and sustainable development. The e-journal addresses scientists, professionals and (prospective) students in a broad range of disciplines who are interested in environmental and sustainability issues.

Its mission is to provide a medium for students in master programs on environment and sustainability to publish about their (research) project. It addresses a wide range of issues and strives for interdisciplinarity.

The editorial board welcomes articles on research projects written by students in the field of environment and sustainability in a broad sense. Contributions to the e-journal are preferably multidisciplinary or even interdisciplinary, but may also be written from an ecological, economic, social, political, technical, policy or managerial perspective.

Educational mission
e-JES is an educational tool to be used in student classes on scientific publishing in masters programs on environment and sustainability.
This tool intends to make writing classes for students more authentic and thereby aims to enhance student motivation. It does so by copying the scientific publishing process (submission, peer review, publishing) and giving students subsequent roles in this process (author, peer reviewer, copyeditor).
As e-JES is an open access Journal, it gives students the opportunity to show their work to a wide audience and to obtain comments on it. In specific cases this might be the onset of re-writing the material and submitting it to a regular Journal.

Status of published materials
The student materials published in e-JES are outcomes of an learning process. The materials (scientific and professional papers) have undergone a student peer to peer review (peer reviewing is an essential part of the learning process of the writing class the students attend). The material published in e-JES therefore doesn’t have the same status as articles in expert peer reviewed journals.

Submission limitations
For the moment e-JES only accepts materials that are written by students within the framework of their participation in a class on scientific publishing at Open Universiteit (The Netherlands).

Joining e-JES
Institutions for higher education that want to join e-JES are invited to contact the e-JES principal contact: Wilfried Ivens