Service social
Managing editor(s): Kevin Lavoie (Directeur) / Editor(s): Kevin Lavoie (Rédacteur en chef)
Title followed by Travail social
About
Presentation
Founded in 1951 and published by the School of social work and criminology of Université Laval, Service social became an online journal in 2002.
A scientific and professional journal for social service practitioners and researchers, as well as members of other disciplines interested in social practices, Service social contains studies on the professional social services, analyses based on the principal social service disciplines, research results concerning different aspects of people's well-being, studies pertaining to the basic social service methodologies, information on social legislation and summaries of recently published works.
Teachers, researchers, practitioners, administrators and students regularly publish in this journal of empirical works, scientific analyses, book reviews and other articles that reflect changing ideas and practices within various fields of activity.
Service social's journal is peer-reviewed based. Publication is in French only.
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The journal’s archives are available for free.
Back issues (63 issues)
Permanent archiving of articles on Érudit is provided by Portico.
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Editorial policy and ethics
Evaluation and revision
If an article is accepted, they are first returned to author for correction, minor or major. The revised article if then sent to our corrector and then returned to the authors just before publication. Please note that reviewers are chosen amongst recognized national and international experts.
Copyrights
All texts published in Service social become its intellectual property. The author still can file the postprint article in an institutional repository. Once the article is published, the author will receive the final version of the article.
Plagiarism policy
Service social rejects all forms of plagiarism, that means: an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author. Every sources must be included according to Service social guidelines.
If plagiarism is suspected, the author can be refused publication and further collaboration with Service social journal.
For more information, see the Guideline for authors.