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Policies & Open Access

Open Peer Review

Tolleration practices parametric open peer review (pOPR) — a declared set of adjustable positions across six dimensions. Open peer review does not mean the absence of blind review: depending on the submission type and author preference, review may be single-blind, double-blind, or fully open. What is declared is not one mode but the full set of parametres in effect. Reviewer selection prioritises formation in the relevant tradition or lineage of inquiry. All publication decisions rest with the editorial team.

Identity disclosure

Authors choose whether to submit blind or named. Reviewers are always anonymous at the verdict stage. If both parties wish to continue in dialogue after the verdict, identities are mutually revealed — but only by consent.

Preprint

Authors choose whether to post a preprint at submission. Most will — the manuscript is posted as an anonymous preprint, citable and readable before any verdict. The journal certifies work; preprint status does not affect the review process.

Verdict

No binary accept/reject. After reviewing independently, reviewers meet as a council and issue one of four verdicts: major revisions (with an offer of co-authorship to the reviewer) · minor revisions (with an offer of named acknowledgement) · dismissal (returned for substantial reworking) · rejection (requires written consensus from the full council).

Metrics

Tolleration registers DOIs through CrossRef and exposes metadata via OAI-PMH, enabling automatic harvesting by DOAJ, ERIC, Google Scholar, BASE, and university library catalogues. Dublin Core and OpenAIRE metadata are exported at publication.

Dialogue

After the council verdict, the full exchange — reviewer readings, council discussion, author response — is published alongside the paper as part of the permanent scholarly record. All preprint versions remain accessible and versioned.

Envelopmental scope

The journal treats the secular-to-sacred axis as a single continuous field. Neither end is the default. Papers grounded in contemplative, religious, or perennial traditions are evaluated on the same terms as those grounded in critical theory or empirical philosophy — provided the grounding is genuine and declared.

Authorship & Contributorship

Tolleration recognises three forms of intellectual contribution to a published work, each of which is named in the citation record:

The Original Author(s) is/are the primary intellectual architect(s) of the manuscript — the scholar(s) who conceived, developed, and is/are accountable for the argument. The Dialogical Contributor (DC) is a second author — emerging from the review process — who has entered into substantive dialogue with the work, reshaping or extending it through intellectual exchange rather than independent parallel writing. The Formative Interlocutor (FI) is the reviewer or reviewers whose critical engagement has materially shaped the final work and who are named in the citation record where consent is given.

Citation follows accordingly, depending on the combination of contributors present:

Original Author(s). Title (FI Name). Journal details. — sole authorship with named Formative Interlocutor
Original Author(s), DC Name. Title (FI Name). Journal details. — with both Dialogical Contributor and Formative Interlocutor
Original Author(s), DC Name. Title (FI Name & FI Name). Journal details. — with Dialogical Contributor and two Formative Interlocutors
Original Author(s). Title (FI Name & FI Name). Journal details. — sole authorship with two named Formative Interlocutors

This citation structure is an expression of the journal's commitment to making the social conditions of knowledge co-production visible.

Changes to the author or contributor list after submission require written explanation and editorial approval.

Conflicts of Interest

Authors must disclose any financial, institutional, or relational interests that could be perceived as influencing the work. This includes funding sources, employment relationships, and significant prior collaboration with individuals named or engaged in the manuscript.

Reviewers who identify a conflict of interest — including supervisory relationships, co-authorship within the past five years, or institutional rivalry — must recuse themselves and notify the editorial team immediately.

Editors who have co-authored with a submitting author or who hold a conflict in relation to the subject matter will be recused from decisions on that submission.

Corrections & Retraction

Where an error in a published work is identified — by the authors, reviewers, or readers — Tolleration will publish a correction notice linked to the original article. Minor factual or typographical errors are addressed through a corrigendum (an error originating with the author); errors introduced in the editorial or production process are addressed through an erratum. Corrections that affect the interpretation of the argument may prompt editorial re-evaluation and an author response.

Retraction is reserved for cases involving fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or undisclosed conflicts that fundamentally compromise the integrity of the work. Retraction notices are published with a brief explanation; the original article is marked as retracted but remains accessible in the archive as part of the scholarly record.

Open Access

Tolleration is a Platinum Open Access journal: free to publish, free to read, free to reuse — with no fees of any kind at any stage. There are no submission fees, no article processing charges (APCs), no page fees, and no pay-to-access options. The costs of publication are borne by wiseOak Akadēmeía and by the voluntary labour of editors, reviewers, and contributors who understand scholarship as a commons rather than a commodity.

Tolleration is distinguished from Green and Gold Open Access models: it operates entirely outside commercial publishing economies and imposes no costs on authors or readers at any stage.

All published work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This licence was chosen over CC0 (public domain dedication) because authorship carries moral weight in the humanistic tradition: to name is to be accountable. CC BY requires attribution while permitting free use, adaptation, and redistribution. Authors retain copyright.

Preprints may be posted to institutional repositories or preprint servers at any stage of the submission process and are not considered prior publication.

Preservation & Archiving

All published content is assigned a CrossRef DOI and registered with standard bibliographic databases. Tolleration is committed to long-term preservation of its scholarly record and will implement digital archiving through established preservation services as the journal develops.