Officially affiliated with the Graduate Association for Food Studies, the Journal seeks to foster inclusive dialogue among students across academic communities. Its current editorial team is especially committed to featuring anti-racist, anti-sexist, and decolonial scholarship.
Each issue is composed of research articles, book reviews, and short-form creative pieces [see the submission guidelines]. Research articles may be submitted from any disciplinary location but must ensure legibility to an interdisciplinary audience of food studies scholars. Shorter work, called Food-Stuff, is not subject to peer review and may take the form of field notes, archival digests, commentaries, interviews, or photo essays.
The Journal considers its mission to:
Challenge, trouble, and vex the field of food studies through robust engagement with other academic fields
Amplify graduate student work and cultivate scholarly development through the process of peer review, editorial revision, and publication
Connect scholars via social media with the additional objective of bringing together food writers both inside and outside of academia
Build relationships among graduate students who study food as well as across food studies programs internationally
Open Access Statement:
In accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative's definition of Open Access this journal allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and allow readers to use them for any other lawful purpose.
This journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges.
The GJFS stores several copies of items and data in multiple digital and geographic locations in an effort to maintain digital content under the principles of LOCKSS ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe"). However as the content is born-digital the publisher cannot make any promises about future format or condition.
GJFS’ Editorial board is made of members of the Graduate Association for Food Studies. For more information, or to contact the board, please see its homepage: https://gradfoodstudies.org/student-board/
All materials published in this journal or on this platform are subject to attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Rights and Warranties
In an effort to maintain transparency, you are welcome to view the template to an actual publication agreement:
The Graduate Association for Food Studies (Publisher) is pleased to be publishing the Article identified above in the journal, Graduate Journal of Food Studies. So that you as Author and we as Publisher of Graduate Journal of Food Studies may be protected from unauthorized use of its contents, we consider it essential to secure the copyright. To this end, we ask you to grant us all rights, including subsidiary and licensing rights, for your article. We will, however, grant you the right to use your article without charge, in addition to several other rights, as indicated below in the section on Author’s Rights.
Author’s Rights
The Author is hereby reserving the rights to use his or her article (or illustrations) in the following ways, as long as the Author acknowledges the original publication by the Graduate Association for Food Studies, in standard bibliographic citation form, and does not sell it or give it away in a manner that would conflict directly with the business interests of the Publisher: (i) to use the article/illustrations for internal educational, classroom use, or other research purposes of the Author’s own institution or company; (ii) to publish the article/illustrations or permit it to be published by other publishers, as part of any book or anthology, of which he or she is the author or editor, unless the anthology is drawn primarily from Graduate Journal of Food Studies; (iii) to post the article/illustrations on the Author’s personal website or within institutional or subject repositories; (iv) to post, no sooner than 6 months after publication of the article/illustrations in Graduate Journal of Food Studies, in the Author’s funding body’s archive.
The rights granted in clauses (i) and (ii) above are intended to benefit the original creators of the Article only. Accordingly, if you claim ownership of or rights in the Article because it was created by your employee or a work made for hire, as defined in the Copyright Act, the rights granted in clauses (i) and (ii) above shall not apply to you, and you must contact the Publisher for permission to make these uses.
Licenses to Publishers
Whereas by authority of the Executive Board of the Graduate Association for Food Studies, the Association is undertaking to publish Graduate Journal of Food Studies, of which the undersigned is Author of one or more parts, the Author grants and assigns exclusively to Publisher for their use, any and all rights of whatsoever kind or nature now or hereafter protected by the Copyright Law of the United States of America and all foreign countries in all languages in and to the above named article, including all subsidiary rights, and electronic rights. This includes granting the GAFS copyright and licensing rights to the article separate and apart from the journal issue, in any and all media.
Requirements for Publication
The Author agrees to prepare and revise the Article according to the editor(s)’s instructions and to meet all other requirements for publication communicated to him or her by the editor(s). It is the Author’s responsibility to determine whether the Article includes material that requires written permission for publication in Graduate Journal of Food Studies, including any material that is supplementary to the Article; to obtain such permission, at his or her own expense, from the copyright owner; and to submit that permission to the editor(s) in writing, with the manuscript.
Author Compensation
The Author will receive no payment from the Publisher for the use of his or her article, except in cases of work made for hire, but will receive a free PDF. To purchase additional bound copies, contact the Publisher.
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The Author warrants the following: (i) that the Author has the full power and authority to make this agreement and that the Article is the Author’s original work; (ii) that the Author’s work does not infringe any copyright, nor violate any proprietary rights, nor contain any libelous matter, nor invade the privacy of any person; (iii) that no right in the work has in any way been sold, mortgaged, or otherwise disposed of, and that the work is free from liens and claims; (iv) that if the article or any material within the article, such as artwork, has been previously published, permission has been obtained to reproduce such material in Graduate Journal of Food Studies, and in any subsequent reuse or license of the article/material, by the Publisher, including electronic reuse.
The Author agrees to hold the Graduate Association for Food Studies, its licensees, and its distributees harmless from any claim, action, or proceeding alleging facts that constitute a breach of any warranty enumerated in this paragraph, and further agrees to indemnify the Association and others against expenses and attorney’s fees that may be incurred in defense against each claim, action, or proceeding.
