Focus and Scope

Awilaras is a journal that focuses on the study of music and its development, open to various approaches that aim to provide encouragement and become a means of dialogue on issues of music and performing arts.


The spectrum of topics includes:
1. Folk/Traditional Music
2. Contemporary Music
3. Music Performance/Composition
4. Review of Nusantara Music
5. Anthropology
6. Sociology of Music
7. Ethnomusicology
8. World Music Culture/Global Music
9. Digital Music Studies
10 Music History and Archaeomusicology
11. Intercultural/Multicultural Music Studies
12. Music Education
13. Music Therapy
14. Aesthetic and Music Criticism
15. Musician and composer Profile and Thought
16. Artistic Review of the Music Creativity Process
17. Ethnography of Music
18. Organology
19. Sound and Visual
20. Music Management

Section Policies

Awilaras

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to this journal must follow Focus and Scope and Author Guidelines of this journal. The submitted manuscripts must fulfill scientific merit or novelty appropriate to the focus and scope of this journal. All manuscripts submitted to this journal must be written in good English. Authors for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to have their paper checked before submission for grammar and clarity. English language and copyediting services can be provided by International Science Editing and Asia Science Editing. The work must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

All submitted manuscripts must be free from plagiarism content. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking (please use Turnitin or iThenticate to check the similarity). Editors will also check the similarity of manuscripts in this journal by using a Turnitin or iThenticate software. The submitted manuscripts to this journal will be peer-reviewed at least 2 (two) or more expert reviewers. The reviewers give scientific valuable comments improving the contents of the manuscript. Sometimes (if required) a third peer-reviewer is needed to give critical comments to the submitted manuscript. The review process used in this journal is a double blind review system.

The final decision of manuscript acceptance is solely made by Editor in Chief/Regional (Handling) Editor (together with Editorial Board if required) according to reviewers' critical comments. The final decision of the manuscript is solely based on the Editor's final review which considering peer-reviewers comments (but not solely by Reviewer). Publication of accepted articles including assigning the article to the published issues will be made by Editor in Chief by considering the sequence of accepted date and geographical distribution of authors as well as a thematic issue.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Publication Frequency

Awilaras is published 2 times in one year
Every Juny for issue number one, and December for issue number two

Publication Fee

Awilaras Journal does not charge a manuscript submission fee up to the publication fee (free).

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statment

Section A: Publication and authorship

- All submitted papers are subject to a strict peer-review process by at least two international reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular article.
- The review process is a blind peer review. The factors that are taken into account in review are relevance, significance, originality, readability, and language.
- The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
- If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised bid will be accepted.
- Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
- The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
- No research can be included in more than one publication.


Section B: Authors’ responsibilities

- Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work.
- Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
- Authors must participate in the peer-review process.
- Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
- All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research.
- Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
- Authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
-Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
-Authors must report any errors they discover in their published paper to the Editors.


Section C: Reviewers’ responsibilities

- Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
- Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
- Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
- Reviewers should also call to the Editor