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Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Andrea Witcomb, Research Institute for Cultural Heritage, Curtin University

Production Editor
Leone Joice, Australian Museums and Galleries OnLine

General Editorial Board

Museums

Anne Watson (Powerhouse Museum)
Bill Jonas
Brian Shepherd (Edith Cowan University Childhood Museum)
Brian  Crozier (Queensland Museum)
Clare-Frances Craig (Museums Assistance Program)
Eddie Butler - Bowden (Museum of Victoria)
Gary Crockett (Hyde Park Barracks, Historic Houses Trust of NSW)
Gary du Four (WA Art  Gallery)
Gaye Sculthorpe (Museum of Victoria)
Glen Cook (Queensland Art Gallery)
Ian Hoskins (Powerhouse Museum)
Ian McShane (Independant consultant)
Jana Vytrhlik (Powerhouse Museum)
Jennifer Garton-Smith (Independant consultant & Adjunct Research Fellow Curtin University)
Judith Wassall (Queensland Museum)
Kevin Sumption (Powerhouse Museum)
Linda Adair (Powerhouse Museum)
Margaret Anderson (South Australian History Trust)
Louise Douglas (National Museum of Australia)
Mary-Louise Williams (Australian National Maritime Museum)
Robyn Sloggett (Melbourne University Museum of Art)
Sue-Anne Wallace
Vivienne Szekeres (Migration Museum, South Australia)
Louise Denoon (Global Arts Link, Ipswich)
Belinda Nemec

Universities

Alison Inglis (Melbourne University)
Chris Healy (Melbourne University)
Fiona Cameron (Sydney University)
Gay Hawkins (University of New South Wales)
Jane Long (University of Western Australia )
Jenny Craik (Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Griffith University)
Jenny Gregory (UWA Press and Centre for UWA History)
Kate Darian-Smith (University of Melbourne)
Linda Young (Canberra University)
Margaret Birtley (Deakin University)
Paula Hamilton (University of Technology, Sydney)
Ross Gibson (Cinemedia)
Ruth Rentschler (Deakin University)
Sue Rowley (Australian Research Council, Creative Arts)
Valda Rigg (Macquarie University)

Historic sites

Ann Brake (Fremantle Prison)
Verena Mauldon (Parramatta Park, NSW)

International

Michael Ames (UBC)
Wolf Rudolph (Fachhochschule fuer Technik & Wirtschaft FB 5 Museumskunde)
Nicholas Thomas (Goldsmith College, University of London)

If you would like to be included in the editorial board for the Journal please contact us: journal@amol.org.au.

Guidelines for referees

Thank you for agreeing to referee

_____________________________________ (title) for Open Museum Journal.

Please email your response to the editors by _________. Your email should include, in its body-text, the recommendation that you are making and a short written report on the paper outlining the reasons for your decision. If you have made in-text comments on the electronic copy of the proposed paper that you have refereed you should attach this file; do not change the file name. Files should sent as rich-text format.

Your report should address the following criteria:

• Quality of written expression and readability, relative to its content.
• Quality of its structure and internal coherence as a narrative or argument.
• Quality of its contribution to scholarly knowledge in the field of xxxxx.
• Quality of its engagement with the work on similar topics of other scholars and practitioners

Where the proposed paper includes multimedia elements, please also address the following criterion:

• Relevance and quality of multimedia elements to written text and vice versa.

Please select one of the following choices and submit with you email message:

1. Accept for publication without change or with minor stylistic/grammatical corrections or:

2. Accept for publication with minor revisions to content as indicated subject to editors’ further approval or:

3. Accept for publication with major revisions to content as indicated subject to my further approval or;

4. Do not accept for publication recommend submission to another journal or:

5. Do not accept for publication recommend substantial revision and re-submission or;

6. Do not accept for publication do not recommend revision or submission to another journal.

Please provide a report indicating reasons for your decision and providing, where appropriate, clear indication of the changes / revisions that you are suggesting. In particular, any report that recommends major or substantial revision should provide clear guidance to the author as to the nature of and the reasons for these suggestions.