About the Journal

 

About

ISSN 1744-2567 (Online)

SCRIPTed is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal. All content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)  licence, unless otherwise stated. There are no fees to access or publish in the journal.

 

Aims & Scope

SCRIPTed is an open access, online, international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring the dynamic and complex relationships between law, policy, society, ethics, technologies and innovation in the broadest sense.

Our scope is intentionally broad and inclusive, welcoming legal and interdisciplinary scholarship across these interconnected domains. It includes, but is not limited to:

  • The legal, ethical, and societal implications of emerging and established technologies and innovation (e.g., artificial intelligence, biotechnology, blockchain, digital platforms, information technology, e-commerce, etc).
  • All facets of intellectual property law.
  • Media law.
  • Communications law.
  • Medical law.
  • Regulatory and policy challenges in these rapidly evolving fields, both nationally and internationally.

We encourage submissions from a wide range of academic disciplines, including but not limited to law, sociology, philosophy, computer science, economics, political science, and science and technology studies. We also welcome contributions from scholars with non-law backgrounds who engage deeply with legal, social, ethical, and policy questions in these areas. Further assistance for authors and artists can be found in the Author Guidelines.

 

Publication Frequency

SCRIPTed publishes at least two issues per year (June and December). The SCRIPTed team also welcomes proposals for special issues.
 
 

Governance & Ownership

SCRIPTed is governed by the journal editors. Copyright to papers published within the journal issues are owned by their respective authors under Creative Commons licenses. The journal is published by the University of Edinburgh – a charitable body. Edinburgh Diamond – a service based within the University of Edinburgh Library – acts as the Publishing Partner by providing publishing services.

 

Indexing

SCRIPTed is indexed in the following databases:

 

Policies

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