General Information

Thescientific journal “Ivzestia of the Volgograd State PedagogicalUniversity” was founded on December, 31, 2002. Certificate ofregistration of the mass media: ПИ№ 9-0493,December, 31, 2002.

Thejournal is claimed valid by the Higher Certifying Commission, theMinistry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation sinceJuly, 7, 2005.

In2005 the journal was given the international number ISSN 1815-9044.

Editor-in-Chief:Professor Nikolay K. Sergeev – Honoured Worker of Higher School ofRussia, Rector of VSSPU, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academyof Education, Advanced Doctor (Pedagogy).

Thejournal publishes original articles, reviews that contain the resultsof scientific and applied work in the field of pedagogical,philological and historical sciences.

SinceJanuary, 1, 2008 the journal has been issued 10 times a year andincludes the following parts:

“Pedagogicalsciences”:

• Philosophy and methodology of education;

• Integrated educational process;

• Continuous professional education;

• Innovations in general and professional education;

• Education and additional training;

• Theory and methodology of education and training;

• Historical and pedagogical, comparative pedagogical research of educational issues;

• Psychological issues of modern education.

“Philologicalsciences”:

• Modern theory of language;

• Issues of Russian philology;

• Comparative and historical, typological and comparative linguistics;

• Issues of Germanic philology;

• Urgent issues of literature study.

“Historicalsciences”.

Inthe choice of the materials for publishing preference is given to theoriginal articles that contain the research results found out byauthors to substantiate new categories, principles and approaches,methodology and methods of psychological, pedagogical andmethodological research; the modern pedagogic theory and innovationaleducational experience; issues of organization of research andexperimental work in the educational sphere.

THEJOURNAL PUBLISHES ONLY ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC AND THEORETIC ARTICLES.Before being published the articles are checked by the antiplagiarismprogramme. There are accepted only the articles with noless that 40% of the unique text. It is accepted to have 30% quotation of otherauthors and 30% of self-quotation. All the quotations should be ininverted commas, the author, the source and the page should bepointed out.

Reviewingprocedure

Eacharticle passes double “blind” reviewing. The reviewers are themembers of the editorial board, who are experts in the field ofpublished materials. The editorial board includes famous scientistsfrom the leading higher schools of the Russian Federation, near andfar abroad. All manuscripts should pass expert evaluation; the reviewis given

accordingto such parameters as:

• topicality of the represented materials;

• scientific novelty;

• research character of the article;

• style;

• conformity between the title and the contents;

• validity.

Alongwith the general evaluation, authors are given the recommendationshow to improve the article. The editorial staff also gives thewritten reviews to the authors on demand of VAK inquires. In case ofrefusal to publish the editorial staff gives the grounded review. Thereviews are kept in the editorial board for 5 years.

THEREVIEW IS CARRIED OUT FREE OF CHARGE.