About

Orbit is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of contemporary American literature. We welcome broad and imaginative definitions of "American literature" that extend geographies beyond the United States. We publish special and general issues in a rolling format and welcome application from qualified parties to coordinate special issues.

Focus and Scope

Orbit welcomes submissions on post-war to contemporary American Literature. We do not publish creative writing. Articles in Orbit are expected to meet high standards of double-anonymous peer review.

Journal History

Orbit joined the Open Library of Humanities in 2015, and has been Open Access since 2012. All published content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Publication Frequency

Orbit is a rolling format journal. This means that articles are published, under a Volume and Issue, as soon as they are ready. Volumes are numbered yearly, with up to four issues per year.

Publication Fees

This journal is published by the Open Library of Humanities. Unlike many open-access publishers, the Open Library of Humanities does not charge any author fees. This does not mean that we do not have costs. Instead, our costs are paid by an international library consortium.

If your institution is not currently supporting the platform, we request that you ask your librarian to sign up. The OLH is extremely cost effective and is a not-for-profit charity. However, while we cannot function without financial support and we encourage universities to sign up, institutional commitment is not required to publish with us.

Archiving and Indexing

Orbit is archived and indexed according to the publisher's policy.