As an open-access publishing collaborative, the WAC Clearinghouse is dedicated to providing barrier and cost-free access to scholarly work, including journals and journal articles, monographs, edited collections, conference proceedings, and professional and pedagogical resources.
The WAC Clearinghouse is committed to promoting a culture that values all people. We pursue the goals of providing peer-reviewed publications and curated instructional and professional resources without cost to all who visit our website. As a project emerging from the field of writing studies, we are committed to reflecting the diversity of our academic discipline. And as a collection of scholars with a wide range of backgrounds and interests, we are committed to cultivating an academic community free from discrimination based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, perceived or actual physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, creed, religion, veteran status, socioeconomic status, or political ideology, as required by various state and federal statutes including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, Sections 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act and ADA Amendment Act, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975.
As a publishing collaborative, we recognize and celebrate the benefits of uniqueness, similarities, and differences. We seek to:
In keeping with these goals, the Clearinghouse invites contributions that support our mission from all people, regardless of institutional affiliation or disciplinary background.
Similarly, in keeping with our values, we are committed to publishing work by all scholars, including those from communities that have historically been underrepresented in WAC and writing studies scholarship. This aligns with our goal of making scholarly work in WAC and writing studies available to all scholars and the larger public through open-access, barrier-free publishing. In pursuing this goal, we subscribe to and endorse the statement and guidelines on Anti-Racist Scholarly Reviewing Practices that can be found at https://tinyurl.com/reviewheuristic.