Yes, you may submit to the ASHA Journals research that has formerly been posted to a preprint server. This can include data, poster presentations, or even completed manuscripts that haven’t been submitted for peer review. Please note that after publication in an ASHA Journal, you are required to update the preprint
If you do not have access to an Institutional Review Board at your institution, there are several potential solutions, including: Partner with another institution that has one and that is willing to have it serve as the IRB of record for the study. Use an external, commercial one, such as
No, doing so would represent a violation of the Copyright Transfer Agreement signed by the authors. This restriction would not apply to open access articles because the author retains the copyright. For information on how authors can use and share their research published in the ASHA Journals, please visit the Maximizing the
Authors may post on their personal Web sites, on department or university intranets, or in university repositories the final, accepted manuscript along with the abstract from the final, published article when available, provided that publication information (including the Web address of the journal site) is provided as applicable. For more
ASHA Journals does not currently have any institutional agreements for free or discounted open access article fees. However, ASHA Journals does comply with funder-required public access requirements. Read more about ASHA Journals Open Access options and funder compliance on the Open Access page.
Open access is not required for articles based on research funded by NIH. The article will be made free as public access on PubMed Central after a 6-month embargo period. Open access offers the benefit of the author retaining copyright, and free access for all users on the ASHAWire site, including all of its
Yes, there is a one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) of $2,000 for open access. The fee can be paid by credit card, wire transfer, or check. You will be asked upon manuscript submission if you would like to publish your article as open access. If you indicate you would like your
If you have a personal or professional relationship to an author that could potentially appear to be a conflict of interest, then you should decline to review the manuscript. Reviewers should avoid even the image of impropriety in the review process. If you discover a conflict of interest after accepting a
The ASHA Journals use a single-blind review process in which the reviewer remains anonymous to the author. If a reviewer wishes to reveal their identity to an author, they must first consult with their editor. For more information about the ASHA Journals single-blind review process, please visit the Peer Review
The typical time from acceptance to publication in Newly Published (ePub Ahead of Issue) is approximately 3 months. Forum and Special Issue articles are typically published only in their scheduled issue. You can learn more about the post-review journal production process and timeline on the Production Steps page.
View the editorial, production, and peer review policies of the ASHA journals.
Get information on ethical considerations for reviewers regarding conflicts of interest.
ASHA publishes four peer-reviewed scholarly journals and one peer-reviewed scholarly review journal pertaining to the general field of communication sciences and disorders (CSD) and to the professions of audiology and speech-language pathology. These journals are the American Journal of Audiology; American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools; and Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. These journals have the collective mission of disseminating research findings, theoretical advances, and clinical knowledge in CSD.
