Undergrad Journals

[Kevin1990]

I'm currently an undergrad history major interested in military history, international security/strategic studies issues, as well as other closely related topics. I'm a soon to be junior eying grad school eventually and since I've long been wanting to to get published.

So since I have a a few papers from my classes throughout my college career so far that I'm working on. I was wondering if anybody knew of any good undergrad journal's especially one's that take submissions in this area, where I could possibly be published?

Thank you in advance btw,

[natsteel]

I'm currently an undergrad history major interested in military history, international security/strategic studies issues, as well as other closely related topics. I'm a soon to be junior eying grad school eventually and since I've long been wanting to to get published.

So since I have a a few papers from my classes throughout my college career so far that I'm working on. I was wondering if anybody knew of any good undergrad journal's especially one's that take submissions in this area, where I could possibly be published?

Thank you in advance btw,

Here's a list of undergrad journals but you have to check their websites because only a select few solicit submissions from outside their own universities:

http://learning.berkeley.edu/buj/USundergradJournals.html

And you will need a research paper that is based on primary sources for these types of journals. Department-specific journals generally not so much, but the ones that solicit outside submissions are looking for high-quality research papers. And, for a few, your professor has to nominate your paper. You can't just submit it yourself.

The junior year is the perfect time to write an honors research essay because you can then polish it up over the next summer and use it as your writing sample. My school had a research colloquium in the spring, so I took an independent study in the fall and developed my topic. Then in the spring, I wrote the paper, which got into one of those undergraduate journals that solicit outside submissions.

Edited June 7, 2011 by natsteel

[Kevin1990]

Here's a list of undergrad journals but you have to check their websites because only a select few solicit submissions from outside their own universities:

http://learning.berk...adJournals.html

And you will need a research paper that is based on primary sources for these types of journals. Department-specific journals generally not so much, but the ones that solicit outside submissions are looking for high-quality research papers. And, for a few, your professor has to nominate your paper. You can't just submit it yourself.

The junior year is the perfect time to write an honors research essay because you can then polish it up over the next summer and use it as your writing sample. My school had a research colloquium in the spring, so I took an independent study in the fall and developed my topic. Then in the spring, I wrote the paper, which got into one of those undergraduate journals that solicit outside submissions.

Thanks I looked through most of these journals and most of them only solicited articles from inside their school like you mentioned.

I guess I'll wait until winter break which is around the time the journal's at my school start asking for articles. As I got a couple of papers from classes in which I got a B or so on them in which I could work to improve for submission.