About the Journal
Publisher
Institute of Kiswahili Studies
Publisher contact person: Timothy T. Mapunda
Email: iks@udsm.ac.tz
Phone: +255-22-2410757
Fax: +255-22-2410334
Mailing address: Box 35110 Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
Sources of Support
Institutional funding & subscriptions & cash sales.
Peer Review
MULIKA journal uses double-blind review system, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. The following procedures serves as guidelines in the peer-review system used by MULIKA journal.
- Editors reject the submission that doesn’t meet the journal’s Editorial objectives.
- Editors select up to three reviewers and ask them to evaluate the manuscript against a set of criteria. The reviewers are given a maximum of three weeks to to send their comments to the editors.
- Editors receives the reviewers recommendations.
- Editors make final decision taking into account the reviewers recommendations as indicated in the table below.
Accept |
Reject |
Revise |
- The editors notify the author that their paper has been accepted. -The paper is published |
-The editors notify the author that their paper has been rejected -and shares the copy of the reviewers comments |
-The editors notify the author that their paper requires revisions -and shares the copy of the reviewers comments -The authors resubmit their revised paper -The editor send the revised paper to the same reviewers |
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.
The Journal is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Publication Scheduling
This journal publishes two issues/volume per year.
General
Hard copies of the journal are sold through annual subscription and retail outlets as outlined in the form below
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION
For institutions For individuals Account name |
US $40 including postage US $20 including postage UDSM IKR CONFERENCE University of Dar es Salaam |
Bank Account Number Bank Name Branch Name Branch Code Swift Code |
040105000186 National Bank of Commerce UDSM Branch 40 NLCBTZTX |
- Furthermore, purchasers can make through the following addresses:
Director
Institute of Kiswahili Studies
University of Dar es Salaam
P.O.Box 35110
Dar es Salaam
- Or can contact the Director through the following email and website:
Email: iks@udsm.ac.tz
Website: www.udsm.ac.tz/iks