[397]DYNAMIC NEW ACADEMIC JOURNAL ISSUES FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 17, 2008EDITORIAL CONTACT: Dr. Colby Jubenville, 615-898-2909

DYNAMIC NEW ACADEMIC JOURNAL ISSUES FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Publication Facilitates Communication Between Sport Practitioners and Scholars

(MURFREESBORO) – The Journal of Sport Administration & Supervision (JSAS), a cutting-edge academic publication initiated at MTSU earlier this year, is issuing its first call for papers from scholars throughout the world. “We are pleased to open the submission process for authors to send their research for consideration and review,” says Dr. Colby Jubenville, associate professor of sport management and graduate program coordinator in the Department of Health and Human Performance. The journal’s most unique feature is its empowerment of sport practitioners, who will be allowed to review scholarly works, analyze research and determine whether it would be useful to them in the field. Jubenville says JSAS seeks to encourage the development of the scholarly sport practitioner, an individual working in sport management who focuses on ethics, innovation and research that is accessible to the public and the media, as well as the academic community. A major convenience of the Website, http://www.jsasonline.org, is its user-friendly online submission and review process. In only eight steps, a contributor can submit a manuscript and track it extensively. The publisher will assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to each article so that publishers may link up with an article with no concern that the link will expire over time. Jubenville says that JSAS will disseminate authors’ works aggressively through indexing and profiling in relevant data bases and publications, as well as through the mainstream media. Furthermore, authors whose writings are published in JSAS will retain the copyrights to their works. Potential topics for papers to be submitted to the journal could include (but would not be limited to) administration/organizational behavior, marketing, law, economics/finance, history, sociology, ethics, coaching, institutional interaction, secondary (high school) interaction, professional sport interaction, intra-departmental interaction, and media. Manuscripts focusing upon process improvement would be considered particularly important to the journal’s mission. For requirements for manuscripts or more information, contact Jubenville at 615-898-2909 or jubenvil@mtsu.edu.
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