The Michigan Journal of Sustainability will publish timely, innovative, stimulating, and informative articles in three areas: (1) sustainable freshwater systems, (2) livable communities, and (3) responses to climate variability and change. The periodical is designed to appeal to readers from a broad range of specialties and backgrounds, and papers will be edited to be comprehensible even to those reading outside their own area of expertise.
The submission and review process will be fully electronic. Papers selected for publication will be edited to improve accuracy and clarity, to remove jargon, and to shorten their length, if necessary. Once a paper has been accepted for publication, all corrections in the proofs other than minor printing errors will be at the author's expense. If a paper was rejected based on a serious reviewer error, a resubmission will be considered.
The journal will provide open access to all content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. Management of indexing process will fall under the auspices of MPublishing, part of the University of Michigan library system.