I am starting a new interdisciplinary journal, the Journal of Sabbatical Studies. Coverage: any research or reflection on what goes on during one's sabbatical. I would think, for example, that one would see a number of papers analyzing methods of self-discipline. How does my future self, who will look back and measure his satisfaction with the sabbatical by how much research he got done, constrain the behavior of my present self, who would like nothing more than to spend his time playing computer games, sleeping late, or - god forbid - blogging incessantly? Other possible paper topics would include time use studies, studies of the effect of a sabbatical on hygiene or alcohol use, and so on. Standards for acceptance: very low. I say, if you show enough initiative to get out of bed and type up a paper for submission to my journal, that's pretty much sufficient to get you published. Cover design: I'm thinking an unshowered, unshaven guy on a couch in his underwear, one hand down his pants Al Bundy-style, watching tv while his computer terminal glows forlornly in the background.
Accepting abstracts now.
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