Journal History, Focus and Scope

The SAASUM Review is the editorial arm of the St Andrews Africa Summit that was established in 2015. We are a student-led publication, aiming to advance discussion about African affairs among the St Andrews community and beyond.

Publisher

St Andrews Africa Summit, University of St Andrews

Review Policy

If you are interested in writing for The SAASUM Review, cover letters and writing samples are available on request. All submissions are peer-reviewed by The SAASUM Review editorial team. Please allow 1 week for a decision to be made on whether to include your submission. Copyediting and typesetting will take a further week after a decision has been made.

Publication Scheduling

The SAASUM Review will publish 2 volumes per year.

Open Access Policy

Unless otherwise noted all content published by The SAASSUM Review is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which allows liberal reuse of the final published work as long as appropriate attribution is made. For more information please follow this link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Privacy and Consent Policy

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviours, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this journal platform (Open Journal Systems – OJS) may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project (PKP) in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here.

Registered Users

Users who register with this journal, including authors and peer reviewers where applicable, consent to having their personal information stored in the University’s journal hosting platform (OJS) and processed by the platform and journal editorial teams. Authors published in this journal are also responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported in the journal.

Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.

All users whose details are stored in the University’s OJS installation can exercise their rights of the individual, as they are detailed in the GDPR.

If you have a user account and wish to have it deleted, please email journal-hosting@st-andrews.ac.uk