Scholarly products of the sort presented at academic conferences such as ASPAC 2007, either as presented or in a later revised draft, are eligible for publication on one of our two ASPAC World Wide Web sites 

The E-ASPAC is fully peer reviewed. (Please see it on the WWW at: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/easpac/). Many scholars increasingly view this site as a welcome alternative to hard-copy publication. If you look at our editorial board on the above site, you will see that many noted professionals in a variety of fields read for us. You will find them helpful and supportive.

 Our peer-reviewing practices are "double-blind," meaning that neither the authors nor the editors can identify each other. We maintain standards similar to those of any professional journal. We presume that submissions are finished products intended to make a scholarly contribution to the appropriate field of Asian Studies. Indications of scholarly quality include the inclusion of a bibliography showing that the author is familiar with the current state of the field, appropriate foot- or endnotes, a subjective or scholarly "voice," careful proofreading and correction. We presume that most pieces will be based in some part in materials originally written in the central language of the subject field.

 Some presenters are more interested in quickly reaching a broad audience than in undergoing the extended peer review process. For submissions not intended to meet the above scholarly standards, we provide another venue for electronic publishing: "ASPAC PAPERS." These are intended to be less finished pieces, perhaps representing work in progress, reports of interesting field projects, or written for a wider audience. ASPAC PAPERS can be found at: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/aspac/papers.indexis/papers.htm.

 For submissions to ASPAC PAPERS we ask that they be clean copy, carefully proofread and corrected with such bibliography and notes as are appropriate to the topic.

 The site of which E-ASPAC and the ASPAC PAPERS are components receives more than 4500 visitors on an average day, most of whom are college and university students doing research in Asian Studies. Fully 10% of the traffic is from outside the United States, principally from Japan, Canada, and Australia, in that order. It is possible to write for ASPAC PAPERS and later upgrade the piece for publication in E-ASPAC.

 When publishing with E-ASPAC or ASPAC PAPERS you retain copyright and all other rights. We can remove your paper at any time from the server, should you wish to submit it to a hard-copy journal.

 You may email your paper to me as an attachment before, during, or after the conference. Please do place <ASPAC> in the subject line of the email so that I can filter it to the proper mailbox.

 Some common issues which we encounter are these:

1. Problems with character-based languages. Keep clean clear copies of all submissions in case we have such problems
2. Please use endnotes instead of footnotes. For best results, save the endnotes in a separate file.

All inquiries are welcome ....
Jeffrey Barlow
Editor, E-ASPAC and ASPAC PAPERS
barlowj@pacificu.edu

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