Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Journal is totally electronic and feature articles, reports, and a workshop corner, along with commentaries and the opportunity for online commentaries. A key objective is to focus on knowledge that facilitates and fosters capacity and capability building for Maori and Indigenous people. This focus is seen as encompassing pre-doctoral and doctoral levels and beyond to include career development, leadership and mentoring. A parallel objective is to provide material that supports capability building and assists researchers and students whatever the context of their work. Such contexts will include local, Iwi, institutional, national and international perspectives. A particular objective is to disseminate information and ideas relating to capability building as widely as possible and in a way that encourages discussion and sharing through the MAI Korero section of the Journal. There are three main issues per year (December, April, August). These issues will be supplemented by special issues from time to time.

Section Policies

Target Articles

See Site Policies & Submission Information sections. Editor has final decision on designation as a "Target Article" Editor will receive recommendations and invite Peer Commentators

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Announcements

Constructed by the Journal Manager and/or Editor.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Articles

See Site Policies and Submission Information sections

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Doctoral Conference Abstracts

See Site Policies and Submission Information sections

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Intern Research Reports

See Site Policies and Submission Information sections

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

MAI Korero

See Site Policies, MAi Korero & Submission Information sections

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Pacific Research in Education: New Directions

The first issue of 2010 is dedicated to this Pacific Research and this first set focusses on Education and New Directions. The idea is that future themes can be attached to the Pacific Research title when a critical mass of material is formed.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Commentaries

See Site Policies & Submission Information sections. Editor will receive recommendations and invite Peer Commentators

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Leadership: Reflections

Editors

Nathan Matthews, Nga Puhi
Adreanne Ormond
Les Williams

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Te Kokonga - Workshop Corner

Invited "columns" on selected workshop topics. See Site Policies & Submission Information sections

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Poetry

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Research Notes

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Strategies for Doctoral Study

Editors

Les Williams

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Glossary of Maori Words

Maintained by the Journal Manager in conjunction with the Maori Language Editor

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Glossary of Maori Proverbs, Sayings

Maintained by the Journal Manager in conjunction with the Maori Language Editor

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

MAI REVIEW FORUM

See Site Policies and Submission Information sections

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Community Research Engagement

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

MAI Review is beholden to its reviewers to maintain the standards of the journal content. We are most pleased to invite suitably qualified parties to become reviewers for us. The formal reviewer invitation has a link to the reviewer application form. This section of the site exists to make resources available to reviewers so that their involvment is made as clear as possible. We welcome any feedback from prospective or existing reviewers that can help in making the site more useful to them. Feedback may be directed to the editor. The web-based system should be used for reviewer registration and login. The reviewer registration form can also be downloaded as a word document that can be completed electronically and e-mailed to the editor.

Publication Frequency

There are three main issues per year (April, August, December). These issues may be supplemented by special issues from time to time.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...