Our open-access, peer-reviewed publication, Papers in Canadian History and Environment (PiCHE), is always accepting new abstract proposals.

What are the benefits of publishing with PiCHE? In addition to the rigor of peer-reviewed publishing, PiCHE papers enjoy a widespread readership, the infrastructure and support of the NiCHE network, and a way to publish articles with multimedia components from audio to visual.

Papers in Canadian History and Environment is a scholar-led, open-access peer-reviewed occasional research paper series published by NiCHE. It features article-length research papers that examine any aspect of the historical relationships among people and the rest of nature in Canada. We publish in both HTML and PDF. Our partnership with York University Libraries ensures long-term digital archiving and indexing of all the papers we publish. We publish all papers under Creative Commons licenses, allowing readers to freely access new research.

What do we publish?

Papers in Canadian History and Environment seeks long-form research papers (minimum 5000 words) that explore any aspect of the intersections of the environment and history in Canada. Our disciplinary lens is capacious and we invite work from scholars across the environmental humanities and social sciences.

Because we are a Web publication, we are not constrained by the print format. Instead of publishing numbered issues featuring 3-4 articles apiece, we publish individual papers once they are ready, following a double-blind peer review process, editor feedback, and copy editing. In other words, we release tracks instead of albums. This allows for faster production and more flexible publishing timelines.

We invite manuscripts that vary in length from short theoretical essays to lengthy research articles. We especially encourage authors whose work would benefit from the Web format. Video inserts? Numerous photographs? Interactive maps? Large datasets? Web publishing can present these media in ways that print cannot.