Scandinavian Journal of Vocations in Development (SJVD) is a peer-reviewed Open Access journal for the vocational and professional fields. It is approved at level 1 in the Norwegian academic evaluation system (both valid in Norway and Sweden). The journal has routines for double-blind peer-review and is a Diamond Open Access  journal which is in line with the Science Europe initiative working to strengthen Open Access in scholarly publishing. SJVD is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). From 2021 SJVD publishes all articles under the Creative Commons License CC-BY 4.0

Open Access

This 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 the 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.

Background

The vocational field is closely related to working life. Major challenges, among others, rapid changes and restructuring in the workplace with an increased technologization of work and demands for new skills. Challenges that, in turn, increase the need for capacity building among skilled workers, instructors and teachers in vocational and professional educations.

The journal disseminates research and development in education and working life.

Focus and Scope of the journal

The purpose of the journal is to:

• stimulate scientific work in professional knowledge and professional issues
• disseminate current research that can contribute to strengthening the vocational and professional fields in Scandinavia
• develop scientific knowledge that can create interest and foundation for further research within the vocational field
• develop knowledge that can contribute to increased quality in the vocational field in cooperation with working life and tri-partite entities
• develop the vocational field to strengthen the relationships between education, research and working life, and to contribute to skills development for a working life in continuous change

Target group

Everyone with interest in the vocational and vocational pedagogical field, for example, stakeholders in the vocational field and relevant professional education, skilled workers, peers and researchers.

Published articles

The scientific articles published illuminates key challenges in the fields and contribute to closer cooperation between higher education, upper secondary education and working life. Published articles are innovative and creative, well structured and well-formulated, thoroughly discussed and well-documented, relevant and significant for practice and research in the fields. Each contribution should present new insights on the field, which can be used to make the results useful in new research and development, and a language that makes the results available to the target group.

SJVD publishes articles continuously and has one volume per year. Also, the journal will publish theme/special issues.

Languages

SJVD accepts manuscripts in English (UK or US) and Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Danish and Swedish).

About the peer-review process

Each submitted manuscript will have minimum two peer-reviewers appointed. The peer-reviewers have experience from the actual field of research, and they have usually an associate professor or professor status. 

Peer-reviewers and author(s) are anonymous to each other.

Open Access guidelines

The journal provides all users with open access (i.e. cost-free and free access to all published content).

Digital preservation in the PKP Preservation Network

The journal has signed up for the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) which uses the LOCKSS program for decentralized distributed digital preservation. This ensures continued access to the journal's content in the event of catastrophic failure or if the journal is no longer published and removed from the web. In these cases, the content can still be made available again by the PKP PN.