The ''Journal of Research Practice'' was a biannual

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covering the

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. It was published by Athabasca University Press. Free access was made possible through institutional sponsorships and optional processing fees paid by authors. The

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were D. P. Dash ( Swinburne University of Technology and Xavier Institute of Management) and Werner Ulrich ( University of Fribourg and

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). After the retirement of both editors submissions to the journal were no longer accepted, although past volumes are available at the journal link (below). The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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* {{Official website, http://jrp.icaap.org/ Research methods journals Open access journals Academic journals established in 2005 Online-only journals Biannual journals Athabasca University English-language journals Academic journals associated with universities and colleges