Nebula: A Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Scholarship was an academic, peer reviewed journal that led the revolution in online, open access, scholarly publishing.
Recognizing some of the content management constraints that were no longer relevant in a rapidly advancing technological age, Nebula was one of the earliest international, peer-reviewed journals to devise a content strategy that could aptly reflect the diversity in systems of thought and intellectual fields of higher learning.
Understanding modern indexing systems, we knew we were no longer constrained by a classical cataloguing modality. We published articles on information technology alongside articles on Shakespeare, our readers found their way to us through academic databases, Google or through our growing list of email subscribers.
Publishing from an international pool of contributors, both prestigious and up-and-coming, Nebula was also one of the first academic journals in the world to invent and apply an agile house-style method, responding to field-specific conventions, rather than imposing restrictive demands.
Our early online and open access presence also meant that the journal was a key player in making quality scholarship accessible to disadvantaged researchers in under-privileged countries. Subsequently, we teamed up with Osun State University, furnishing online publication of their print journal, which gave scholars in Nigeria the opportunity to publish their work on the world stage.
In these simple, yet visionary ways, Nebula opened up the avenue for multidisciplinary and truly global conversations. We provided oppportunities for visibility and higher learning to all who sought it and this culminated in the publication of over 300 peer reviewed articles and 25 issues of Nebula and its subsidiaries.
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