Journal of Research Practice (JRP) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal

Electronic journal

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 with a transdisciplinary focus, published as an open access journal

Open access journal

Open access journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author.Subsidized journals...

, i.e., full-text access is free to all readers. It uses Open Journal Systems

Open Journal Systems

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 to manage the online publication process. The journal seeks to:

• connect scientific research-inclined persons working in different disciplinary, institutional, and practical contexts and through this,
• extend the practice of research to progressively newer territories.

Both these aims are expected to facilitate the wider purposes of promoting research education around the world and innovative forms of research in different socially relevant areas.

JRP is published by the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication

International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication

International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication is non-profit publisher of academic journals, hosted at Athabasca University, Canada...

 (ICAAP), a research and development organisation devoted to the advancement of open access publishing, located at Athabasca University

Athabasca University

Athabasca University is a Canadian university in Athabasca, Alberta. It is an accredited research institution which also offers distance education courses and programs. Courses are offered primarily in English with some French offerings. Each year, 32,000 students attend the university. It offers...

, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Free access to JRP is made possible through institutional sponsorships and optional processing fees paid by authors. The editorial office is hosted at Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar

Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar

Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar , is a business school in India, located in Bhubaneswar, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Orissa.-Foundation:...

, India. The editorial team is fairly international in character, with persons from Australia, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, UK, and USA.

JRP is included in the following indexing services Directory of Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals

The Directory of Open Access Journals is website maintained by Lund University which lists open access journals. The project defines open access journals as scientific and scholarly journals that meet high quality standards by exercising peer review or editorial quality control and "use a funding...

, Open J-Gate

Open J-Gate

Open J-Gate is a free database of open access journals, launched in February 2006, hosted by Informatics Ltd.Informatics started the metadata aggregation from OA journals as part of the development of J-Gate...

, and Ulrich's Periodical Directory.