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MRU Journal System
This journal hosting service is provided by the Mount Royal University Library and is available to all MRU faculty, students, staff, administrators, centres, institutes, or affiliated community members who are interested in publishing their open access journal.
Journal Hosting Service
Through our partnership with the University of Alberta Libraries' publishing program, MRU journals benefit from several value-added services including:
Getting Started
Prospective journals, conference proceedings, or other publications will be affiliated with MRU and meet some basic inclusion criteria. Please review the Memorandum of Understanding before contacting us. Also, we encourage you to engage in some preliminary research and planning around how to be successful with your journal.
For more information and to discuss your proposal please contact mrujs@mtroyal.ca or your subject librarian.
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Open Journal Systems (OJS) training and guides
Journal publishing resources
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Hosted Journals
Ancient Lanka
Ancient Lanka is a collaboratively peer reviewed and collaboratively edited open access publication that explores Sri Lanka’s past. Following a flexible publication frequency Ancient Lanka uses a multidisciplinary approach in its development of content that is of interest to academics and the general public. Invited reports on excavations, surveys, material and commentary related to reconstructing the past of Sri Lanka are considered for publication.
ISSN 2816-9425

Convergences francophones
Pluridisciplinaire et axée sur un champ de recherche francophone, la revue s'attache plus particulièrement aux domaines de la littérature, de l'histoire culturelle, de la traduction et des études de communication.
ISSN 2291-7012
(De)constructing Criminology: International Perspectives (DCIP)
(De)constructing Criminology: International Perspectives (DCIP) is an international journal which publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, and open access works in criminology and its adjacent disciplines.
The journal provides a broad forum to deconstruct criminology, its established power structures, and the dominant understandings of criminology and its adjacent disciplines.
Imagining SoTL
Imagining SoTL (IS), an annual open access publication, stems from the annual Symposium for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), hosted by Mount Royal University’s Mokakiiks Centre for SoTL.
ISSN 2563-8289

Journal of the Academy of Forensic Nursing
The focus of this journal is to highlight scholarship relevant to forensic nursing and allied forensic professionals.
ISSN 2817-3848

Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review (MRUHR)
The Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review (MRUHR) is an online, student-run, annual journal of undergraduate research in the Humanities. The MRUHR invites submissions from Mount Royal University students of essays or other kinds of intellectual work appropriate for an online journal that are relevant to the subjects taught by the Mount Royal Department of Humanities (History, Philosophy, Women’s Studies, Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Canadian Studies, or Art History).
ISSN 2562-4733
The following journals are no longer publishing but we continue to make their contents accessible.
- Behavioural Sciences Undergraduate Journal (ISSN 2562-4687)
- El texto hispanoamericano/The Spanish American Text (ISSN 2562-5284)
- Experiences in Spanish-English Translation/Experiencias de traducción español-inglés (ISSN 2562-4741)
- International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning (ISSN 1206-9620)
- International Journal for Leadership in Learning (ISSN 1929-5499)
- Mount Royal Undergraduate Education Review (ISSN 2368-0024)