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• Acme [table of content + abstracts]
  An international peer-reviewed e-journal for the analysis of the social, the spatial and the political. It provides a forum for the publication of critical and radical work about space in the social sciences.

• Action Research International (ARI) [full text and free]
  A refereed journal on the subject of action research. The journal is sponsored by the Institute of Workplace Research Learning and Development within the School of Social and Workplace Development and by Southern Cross University Press.

• African and Asian Studies [table of contents + abstracts]
  Including one issue free, just to get the feeling. Editor: Tukumbi Lumumba (Cornell University Ithaca, USA).

• AnthroGlobe [full text]
  An international multi-media and interactive journal on anthropological issues.

• Citizenship Studies [table of content]
  A journal published by Carfax Publishing, and edited by Bryan S. Turner. It publishes internationally recognized scholarly work on contemporary issues in citizenship, human rights and democratic processes from an interdisciplinary perspective covering the fields of politics, sociology, history, philosophy and cultural studies. Upcoming special issues include Islam and Women, International Relations, Feminist Theory and Rights, and Cities and Citizenship.

• Comparative Sociology (IJCS) [table of content & abstracts]
  Studies made in different cultures and societies, with the aim of reaching a common level of abstraction. The first 11 Issues (published by Brill Academic Publishers) available online, from 2000 to 2002, including a free one.
  Editors: York Bradshaw (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) and Shivu Ishwaran (Willowdale, Canada).

• Cybermetrics [full text]
  International peer-reviewd journal of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics. It is devoted to the study of the quantitative analysis of scholarly and scientific communications. The topics covered are the methodologies and results of scientometric, bibliometric or informetric research. Although emphasis is placed on aspects related to Internet, Cybermetrics is not restricted to them. Other subjects are accepted such as: application of scientometric methodology to the analysis of scientific communication in cyberspace ; uses of citation analyses (including the hypertextual phenomena), and the impact of the Internet on scientific co-operation. Chief editor: Isidro F. Aguillo (CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain).

• Field Methods (FM) [table of contents]
  An interdisciplinary, international journal of research on methods for collecting and analyzing data about human thought and human behavior outside the laboratory. Embracing both qualitative and quantitative methods of scientific and interpretive paradisms. FM publishes articles about methods from across the social sciences, including articles about survey methods, text analysis, and participant observation. Editor: H. Russel Bernard.

• Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (FQS) [full text]
  A peer-reviewed multilingual online journal for qualitative research. The main aim of FQS is to promote discussion and cooperation between qualitative researchers from different countries and social science disciplines.

• International Journal of Community Currency Research [full text and free]
  A forum for the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the emerging array of community currencies. Editors: Colin C. Williams and Graham R. Irwin.

• International Journal of the Law, Crime and Justice (IJSL) [table of contents + abstracts]
  An interdisciplinary forum for high quality research and debate on social context and social implications of law, law-enforcement, and legal processs. It publishes contributions from all areas of socio-legal study, and particularly those which address comparative isssues and questions of development, change, and reform in soci0-legal processes.

• International Sociology [table of contents]
  A quarterly, established by the International Sociological Association (ISA) to publish papers which deserve worldwide circulation and which reflect the research & interests of the international community of sociologists. All branches of the discipline and all regions of the world are represented in its pages. Members of the ISA will receive the journal at a discount. Editor-in-Chief: Roberto Cipriani.

• Journal of Complexity [full text and free]
  A refereed journal for scientific papers dealing with any area of complex systems research. The theme of the journal is the field of complex systems, the generation of complex behaviour from the interaction of multiple parallel processes. Relevant topics include: artificial life, cellular automata, chaos theory, control theory, evolutionary programming, fractals, genetic algorithms, information systems, neural networks, non-lineardynamics, and parallel computation. Papers dealing with applications of these topics (for example, to biology, economics, epidemiology, sociology) are also encouraged.

• Journal of Developing Societies (JDS) [table of contents and abstracts]
  A forum for scholarly analysis of developing as wel as developed world societies and cultures, past and contemporary.

• Journal of Mundane Behavior (JMB) [full text]
  An inter- and cross-disciplinary journal devoted to the study of the everyday, the 'unmarked', and the quotidian. JMB is a blind peer-reviewed scholarly and publicly-oriented journal co-hosted by the sociology departments at Millersville University and California State University, Fullerton.

• M@n@gement [full text]
  An international research review on management. It offers to authors and readers place to express and exchange ideas on management research, strategy, organizational theory. Published articles in M@n@gement are selected by a double blind evaluation process in accordance with the standard of the best research reviews. It evaluates and publishes papers in all languages. Editor: S. Charreire (U. Paris-Val-de-Marne), B. Forgues (IAE Tours), V. Perret (U. Cergy-Pontoise).

• Organdi [table of contents]
  A peer-reviewed social science quarterly devoted to contemporary cultural issues. It focuses on cultural issues of our time and proposes a criticism on the evolution of societies. The articles are published in English and French.

• ProtoSociology [table of contents]
  An international and interdisciplinary journal edited by Gerhard Preyer (Goethe University, Germany).

• Social Networks [table of contents + abstracts]
  An international quarterly journal that publishes both reports of empirical research and formal models. Articles are all concerned with questions about the structure -or patterning- of the linkages that connect social actors. Published by Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. (North Holland) in association with The International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). You'll have to pay for this journal.

• Social Criticism Review [full text]
  Although at this time very much under construction, this might be your chance to get access to quality information that is independent and "against the current". The site contains a selection of top readings on modern society and its ills. Focus on alienation between man, nature and a dysfunctional technical complex. And a plea to restore a responsible community and a forum for ideas that go against the current. Editor: Hans Talmon (Delft, Netherlands).

• Surveillance & Society [full text]
  A free, peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary journal that aims to: encourage understanding of approaches to surveillance in different academic disciplines; publish innovative and transdisciplinary work on surveillance; and promote understanding of surveillance in wider society. Magaging editor: David Wood.

• Theory and Science [full text]
  An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewd journal devoted to the discussion of theory, science, and social change. Chief editor: Timothy McGettigan.

• West African Review (WAR) [full text]
  An ejournal devoted to the promotion of research and scholarship of importance to the global African community and friends of Africa. Editor: Nkiru Nzegwu. ICAAP member.

Africa

• African Studies Quarterly (ASQ) [full text]
  An interdisciplinary, fully refereed, online journal that is dedicated to publishing the finest scholarship relating to Africa. Presented by the Center for African Studies of the University of Florida.

• African Societies [full text]
  A two-monthly magazine on the "invisible" Africa, edited by CERFE Group in English, French and Italian. It mainly deals with the theme of the dual reality of Africa. On the one hand international media offer a mainly negative, agglutinated and reductive picture of the continent. On the other hand is refers to a plurality of societies that are mostly little known, misunderstood and somewhat invisible.

Australia

• Australian Journal of Management (AJM) [full text]
  AJM publishes research in accounting, applied economics, finance, industrial relations, political science, psychology, statistics, and other disciplines. Key subjects are marketing, corporate strategy, operations management, organization development and decision analysis.

• M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture [full-text]
  M/C crosses over between the popular and the academic, by engaging with the 'popular' and integrating the work of 'scholarship' in media and cultural studies.

• Rural Society [main articles from back issues]
  A quarterly journal of rural social issues, published by the Centre for Rural Social Research at Charles Sturt Umiversity. It is a fully refereed academic journal, but designed to be accessible to a broad readership. Topics covered in Rural Society have included the rural media; small town development; rural gender issues; agricultural restructuring; heritage and tourism and youth and ageing in rural areas. Editors: Marion Bannister and Rachael Williams.

• Reference: Australian Journals Online (AJOL) - National Library of Australia
  A listing over over 2000 Australian electronic journals, magazines, webzines, newsletters and e-mail fanzines.

Canada

• Aurora [full text]
  Interviews with leading thinkers and writers The authors and researchers whose books we love to read and teach, and whose work is making important contributions to university education and public life in Canada and internationally.

• Cahiers de recherche sociologique
  Formal information and table of content only, they are on the public internet, but no content to offer.

• Canadian Journal of Communication [full text]
  An ICAAP journal of research and scholarship encompassing the field of communication and journalism studies. In pursuing this objective, particilar attention is paid to research that has a distrinctive Canadian flavour. Editor: David Mitchell.

• Canadian Journal of Sociology (CJS) [table of contents & some full text]
  A journal dedicated to publishing high-quality, original articles representing a wide spectrum of sociological topics, perspectives, and approaches. Since late 1998, the CJS has published its own book reviews, conference announcements, and job advertisements, in addition to tables of contents, abstracts, selected articles and other items from the print CJS. Editor: Nico Stehr.

• Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science (CJBS) [table of contents + abstracts]
  Electronic version of the CJBS, a scholarly journal that is also available as a printed publication, produced by the Canadian Psychological Association. Full-text of articles are available from 1995 editions onwards, and tables of contents and abstracts are available for the period 1986-1994. Many subjects within psychology and the behavioural sciences are covered, and all articles are peer-reviewed. Articles are given in both English and French.

• Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology [table of contents + abstract, 1989-2007]
  Published by the Canadian Sociological Association.

• CTheory [full text]
  An international, electronic review of books on theory, technology and culture. Sponsored by the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, reviews are posted periodically of key books in contemporary discourse as well as theorisations of major "event-scenes" in the mediascape. Editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker.

• Electronic Journal of Sociology (EJS) [full text and free]
  EJS is part of, and a model for, a new publishing paradigm whereby the scholars themselves retain control over all aspects of the scholarly communication process. Editor: Mike Sosteric.

• Journal of Asian and African Studies (JAAS) [table of contents & abstracts]
  Studies of individuals, societies and cultures in the nations of Asia and Africa. Editor: Shivu Ishwaran (Willowdale, Canada).

• Journal of Developing Societies (JDS) [table of contents & abstracts]
  A forum for developmental issues in developing and developed countries. JDS focuses primarily on issues of development and change in their manifold aspects. Theoretical and applied, historically oriented as well as contemporary points of view are within these parameters of the journal. Editor: Shivu Ishwaran (Willowdale, Canada).

• Labour/Le Travail [table of cotents]
  Journal of Canadian Labor Studies. The official, semi-annual publication of the Canadian Committee on Labour History. Articles in the field of working-class history, industrial sociology, labour economics, and labour relations. You have to subscribe for this journal.

• Revue Management International [pay first]
  Pubslihed by the Centre for International Businesss Studies (CETYAI) of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Montreal. It publishes papers on various aspects of international management in English, French or Sapnish.

• Revue Société - Université du Québec á Montréal.
  Information on the mission of the revue and only a list of previous issues.

• Women in Judaism: A multidisiplinary journal
  An academic, refereed journal devoted to scholarly debate on gender-related issues in Judaism. The ultimate aim of the journal is to promote the reconceptualization of the study of Judaism. It is particularly intended to promote critical analysis of gender inequalities within Jewish religion, culture and society, both ancient and modern. Editor: Dina Ripsman Eylon.

Asia

Hong Kong
• Ejournal on Hong Kong Cultural and Social Studies
  An interdisciplinary journal on many aspects of the humanities and social sciences.

• Hong Kong Journal of Social Science [full text]
  An interdisciplinary academic journal of social sciences with a focus on the Asia Pacific Region.

Indonesia
• Journal of Social Complexity
  A journal that analyses the social phenomena in the terms of complexity sciences. Centered in Bandung, Indonesia.

Japan
• Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies (EJCJS) [full text]
  A journal in the social sciences dedicated to publishing scholarly writing on all aspects of contemporary Japanese society, politics, economy, and culture. Editor: Peter Matanle.

• Japan Labor Review (JLR)
  A quarterly journal of research in the field of labor studies. Published by an editiorial board of the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training.

• Japanese Journal of Labour studies [full text]
  A monthly journal which introduces up-to-date labor issues in Japan with articles, special topics and statistical information.

• Kyoto Journal of Sociology (KJS) [full text]
  Annually published by the Dept. of Sociology, Kyoto University. It contains tables of contents and abstracts in English or German.

• Language and Ecology [full text]
  A magazine with short critical articles on discourses implicated in environmental destruction and exploration of alternative discourses which have the potential to contribute to "ecological harmony".

• Social Science Japan [full text]
  Provides concise information in English on key people, important literature and recent developments in four fields of social science research on Japan: economics, political science, law and, to a limited extent, sociology. Social Science Japan is published by the Information Center for Studies in Japanese Society, which has been established within the Institute of Social Science (ISS), University of Tokyo. The articles are written by ISS research staff and other researchers connected with the Institute.

Latin America

General
• Latin American Perspectives (LAP) [table of contents]
  A theoretical and scholarly journal on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. Most issues focus on a single problem, nation, or region, providing an in-depth look from participants and scholars throughout the Americas.

  Argentina

• Plurizonte
  Social psychological journal.

• Theomai: Society, Nature and Development Studies
  An international and multidiciplinary journal that concentrates on the articulation processes of different expressions of reality which have been tradtionally dealt separately without paying too much attention to their connections. Editor: Guido Galafassie.

  Brazil

• Caos - Revista Eletrônica de Ciências Sociais
  Presented by the Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal de Goiás.

• Estudos Afro-Asiáticos [table of contents]
  Publishes studies of racial relations in Brazil and the Negro diaspora as well as national realities and international relations of African and Asian countries. Presented by the Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiáticos (CEAA).

• PreTextos [full text]
  Electronic journal of the Brazilian National Association of Post-Graduate Programs in Communication. Pretextos receives and makes available drafts of articles for reading, critique and comment by peers.

• Revista Critica de Ciências Sociais (RCCS) [table of contents]

• Revista de Ciências Humanas (RCH) [full text]
  Federal University of Santa Catarina.

• Revista de Sociologia e Política [full text]
  A bi-annual publication of the Political Science staff of the Departament of Social Sciences of the Universidade Federal do Paraná, in Brazil. Open to scientific debate, the journal intends to be a pluralist space to divulge the results of substantive research, mainly of sociologists and political scientists. It publishes, preferably in Portuguese, original articles and critical reviews of recently edited works.

• SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online
  A collection of Brazilian scientific journals in electronic format. It organizes and publishes full texts of scientific articles, as well as indicators of usage and impact of such a production. It includes publications in areas such as biological and health sciences, social and human sciences, physics etc. Scielo's objective is to contribute to the advancement of the Brazilian scientific research by widening and improving the process of publication, dissemination and evaluation of the scientific literature. The library is a part of a project being developed by FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, in partnership with BIREME - the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information.

• Revista Brasilieira de Sociologia da Emoção [full text]
  Journal for the sociological and anthropological study of emotion.

  Chile

• Cinta de Moebio [full text]
  Revista Electrónica de Epistemología de Ciencias Sociales. Presented by the faculty of social sciences, Universidad de Chile. Editor: Francisco Osorio.

• Estudios Públicos Journal [full text]
  Edited by the Centre of Public Studies

  Costa Rica

• LatIndex - Annuario de Estudios Centroamericanos
  Published under the auspices of the Social Science Research Institute of the University of Costa Rico. Concentrates on the Central American region.

  Mexico

• Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales [table of contents]

• Revista Mexicana de Sociología
  The official organ of the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (IIS).

• Sincronía [full text]
  A Journal of Cultural Studies for Latin America. The journal is produced under the auspices of the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. It is targeted towards academics in Latin America (or those with an interest in Latin America) to share news of current research, archive unpublished articles, or publish new work. Articles are permanently archived while news announcements are cleared every two months. English and Spanish version.

New Zealand

• Electronic Journal of Radical Organisation Theory (EJROT) - Univ.of Waikato, New Zealand.
  The aim of the Journal is to stimulate leading edge discussion around radical ideas in the study and practice of organisation and management. They encourage the submission of: research articles which present new information, theoretical tracts which attempt to produce synthesis of existing ideas, radical approaches which can produce new images of organisations, visions of organisations and management practices which are not exploitative or oppressive for those who participate in them. They encourage perspectives that include interpretations of the broader societal contexts in which organisations are embedded.

U.S.A.

• Administrative Science Quarterly [table of contents and abstracts]
  A major journal in organisation theory. Includes table of contents of the current issue and information about the journal which publishes interdisciplinary research in organisational theory.

• Advancing Women [full text]

• American Journal of Sociology (AJS) [table of contents]
  Information about the journal, including tables of contents, submission guidelines, subscription and ordering information. Editor: Edward O. Laumann. AJS was established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field. It remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice,and history of sociology. The Journal also seeks the application of perspectives from other social sciences and publishes papers by psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, economists,educators, historians, and political scientists.

• Annual Review of Sociology (ARS) - John Hagan University of North Carolina.
  You can search the abstracts of articles for the past 12 years. The Sociology Abstract Database allows searches for any word(s) or concepts found in author names, titles, or in the full text of the abstracts 1993-1996 (ARS Volumes 10-22). A list of abstracts that contain your search word(s)/concept(s) will be presented. In that list, click on any link to bring up the full text of the abstract. Over 6000 selected references to the literature, and an international address book.

• American Sociological Review (ASR) [table of contents]
  The ASR is the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association. Founded in 1936, the Review's mission is to publish original works of interest to the discipline in general, new theoretical developments, results of research that advance our understanding of fundamental social processes, and important methodological innovations. All areas of sociology are welcome in the ASR. Emphasis is on exceptional quality and general interest. Editor: Glenn Firebaugh (Penn State).

• Brooklyn Journal of Social Semiotics Research [full text]
  Editors: Jerome Krase and Timothy Shortell.

• Chance Magazine [table of contents]
  A magazine of the American Statistical Association and Springer-Verlag about statistics and its use in society. Editor: Michael Larsen.

• CMC Magazine [full text and free]
  A Computer-Mediated Communication Magazin, published by December Communications, Inc. In 1999 Jon December decided to cease publication of the magazine.

• Critical Inquiry [excerpts from articles]
  An interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing the best critical thought in the arts and humanities. "Combining a commitment to outstanding scholarship with a vital concern for dialogue and debate, the journal brings its readers current criticism on a variety of topics within literature, art, architecture, film, history, philosophy, and music."

• Current Research in Social Psychology (CRISP) [full text]
  A peer reviewed, electronic journal that covers all aspects of social psychology. Editor: Michael J. Lovaglia, University of Iowa.

• Current Sociology
  Each issue of CS is devoted to a comprehensive trend report on a topic of interest to the international community of sociologists. The aim is to analyse ongoing controversies and new tendencies, sketch desirable lines of future work and provide extensive bibliographies. Editor: Robert Brym (Univ. of Toronto).

• Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture (EJVC) [1993-1996]
  A refereed scholarly journal published by Marshall & Kent State Universities. Virtual culture is computer-mediated human experience, action, and interaction, including electronic mail, conferences, and journals; information distribution and retrieval; the construction and visualization of images, representations, models of reality and/or worlds; and global connectivity. The purpose is to foster, encourage, advance, and communicate scholarly thought (including analysis, evaluation, and research) in multiple disciplines about virtual culture.

• Electronic Green Journal - Univ. Idaho Library, USA.
  A professional refereed publication devoted to disseminating information concerning sources on international environmental topics including: assessment, conservation, development, disposal, education, hazards, pollution, resources, technology, and treatment.

• Essays in History [full text]
  Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, USA. Editor: Meg Jacobs.

• Illuminations - Critical Theory
  A research resource for those interested in the Critical Theory project. Firmly based in Frankfurt School thought, this site maintains a collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about Critical Theory. Additional submissions from graduate students and others are also available, as are links to other websites and relatedsources.

• Janus Head [full text]
  Interdisciplinary journal in the continental tradition which explores the intersections among philosophy, literature and the social science, especially psychology.

• Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (JAA) [table of contents + abstracts]
  The JAA is devoted to the development of theorie and methodology for the systematic and rigorous understanding of the organization, operation, and evolution of human societies.

• Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (JCMC) [full text]
  A joint project of the Annenberg School for Communication (University of Southern California) and the Information Systems Division of the School of Business Administration (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Editors: Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli.

• Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture (JPJPC)
  It serves the criminal justice/criminological community by publishing reviews of all types of popular culture artifacts and original essays pertaining to the intersection of popular culture and criminal justice. Editors: Jack K. Reed & Brian C. Renauer (Univ. at Albany).

• Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) [full text]
  A free electronic archive of articles on electronic publishing. Editor: Colin Day (Univ. of Michigan Press).

• Journal of Online Behavior (JOB) [full text]
  Dedicated to the empirical study of human behavior in the online environment.

• Journal of Religion and Society (JRS) [full text]
  A cross-disciplinary electronic journal published by the Center for the Study of Religion & Society at Creighton University. It promotes scientific studies of all religious groups and beliefs among the various peoples of the world, past and present. Editor: Ronald A. Simkin.

• Journal of World Systems Research (JWSR) [full text]
  An interdisciplinary electronic journal dedicated to scholarly research on the modern world-system and earlier, smaller intersocietal networks. JWSR espacially want to include works that proceed from several different theoretical stances and disciplines. Editor: Walter L. Goldfrank.

• Journal of the Sociology of Art
  The journal has a particular interest in examining what is an art world and who or what are the significant players. Attention to issues related to race, gender, class, or power are also of interest. Full text articles. Editor: Robert Moore.

• Lore: Rhetoric, Writing, Culture [full text]
  An electronic journal sponsored by the Rhetoric and Writing Studies department at San Diego State University.

• Moving Ideas
  A virtual magazine of the electronic policy network.

• Negations - Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Thought [full text]
  An interdisciplinary journal drawing upon philosophy, political science, sociology, arts and humanities, oriented around the notion of but not limitedto Marcuse's one-dimensional man. The editorial staf is concerned with the reduction of life to the level commodity in all areas of life, scientific reductionism in the academy, consumerism on the street. Negations promises to be an exceptional forum for cultural and political criticism in the years to come" [Martin Jay]. Editor: Tim Wood.

• Northern Light
  A new commercial site where you can download information from more than 3,400 journals, books, magazines, databases and newswires not available on any other search engine. It will cost you $1 per article.

• Other Voices [full text]
  An electronic journal of cultural criticism, founded in March 1997. Other Voices publishes provocative essays, interviews, lecture transcriptions, hypermedia projects, translations and reviews in the arts and humanities, covering philosophy, literature, visual art, music, and theory in a variety of traditional and non-traditional forms. All submissions are subject to strict lateral peer review: all essays are reviewed by peers of equal or greater stature. Editor: Vance Bell. Publisher: University of Pennsylvania. ICAAP member.

• Political Chronicle [full text]
  A bi-annual journal in political science research. The editors invite submissions in the fields of political and social sciences, history, public policy and international affairs. Editor: Waltraud Q. Morales.

• Postmodern Culture
  Essays and reviews etc. to promote discussion on postmodern culture. Full texts. Published by North Caroline State University and the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

• Public Administration and Management
  A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the fields of public administration and management. The journal targets both scholars and practitioners in public administration and management. Editors: Jack Rabin and Robert Munzenrider (Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg).

• Qualitative Report, The
  An online journal dedicated to writing and discussion of and about qualitative and critical inquiry. It serves as a forum and sounding board for researchers, scholars, practitioners, and other reflective-minded individuals who are passionate about ideas, methods, and analyses permeating qualitative and critical study. The pages are open to a variety of forms: original, scholarly activity such as qualitative research studies, critical commentaries, editorials, or debates concerning pertinent issues and topics; news of networking and research possibilities; and other sorts of journalistic and literary shapes which may interest and pique readers. Editor: Ron Chenail. From the School of Social and Systematic Studies, Nova Southeastern Univ., USA.

• Radical Pedagogy (RP) [full text]
  Sociology's first journal devoted to developing the art and theory of critical and transformative pedagogy. RP is devoted to publishing advanced theoretical pieces, course syllabi, descriptions of instructional techniques, and reviews of pedagogical material (print and online).

• Rationality and Society
  An international journal focusing on the latest social research and theory using rational choice as its foundation. Editor: Mary C. Brinton (Univ. of Chicago). It will cost you $ 52 for one year.

• Rural Conditions and Trends [full text]
  Published three times a year by the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). It is devoted to analyses of farm- en forest-related manufacturing.

• Science as Culture (SAS) [table of contents ; some full text]
  The object of this site is to provide food for thought, to stimulate debate and to obtain constructive criticism for articles. Editor: Robert M. Young.

• Social Forces - Southern Sociological Society (USA)

• Social Science Research (SSR) [table of contents + abstracts]
  Publishes papers devoted to quantitative sociale science research and methodology. The articles illustrate the use of quantitative methods in the empircal solution of substantive problems.

• Sociation Today [full text]
  An open access journal and are abstracted in Sociological Abstracts. Back issues are indexed in the DOAJ. The journal is sponsored by the North Carolina Sociological Association and is peer-reviewed.

• Society & Animals Journal (S&A) - Social Scientific Studies of the Human Experience of Other Animals [full text and free]
  Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, US. S&A publishes studies which describe & analyze our experience of animals. The goal of the journal is to stimulate and support an emerging content area within the social sciences. Animal studies consists of investigations of the ways in which nonhuman animals figure in our lives.

• Sociological Abstracts Inc. (SAI)
  SAI publishes print and electronic products in sociology, sociological practice, and linguistics and language research. They offer three major reference products: Sociological Abstracts (SA), Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts (SOPODA), and Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) offer abstracts of articles from more than 2,000 core and discipline-related journals, books and book chapters, conference papers, and citations to dissertations and book and other media reviews.

• Sociological Forum [abstracts]
  SF is a peer-review journal that emphasizes innovative articles that develop topics or areas in new ways or directions. While also supporting the central interests of sociology in social organizations and change, SF also publishes integrative articles that link subfields of sociology or relate sociological research to other disciplines, thus providing a larger focus on complex issues. Editor: Richard H. Hall (Dept. of Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY).

• Sociological Methods and Research (SMR) [table of contents]
  A quarterly journal devoted to sociology as a cumulative empirical science. The objectives of SMR are multiple, but emphasis is placed on articles that advance the understanding of the field through systematic presentations that clarify methodological problems and assist in ordering the known facts in an area.

• Sociological Methodology [table of contents & abstracts]
  An annual volume on methods of research in the social sciences. Sponsored by the American Sociological Association, its mission is to disseminate material that advances empirical research in sociology and related disciplines. Chapters present original methodological contributions, expository statements on and illustrations of recently developed techniques, and critical discussions of research practice. You get the table of contents (starting in 1994) and abstracts of the articles. Editor: Adrian E. Raftery.

• Teaching Sociology (TS) [table of contents]
  A quarterly publication of the American Sociological Association. Publishing articles, notes, and reviews intended to be helpful to teachers of sociology. Sharing theoretically stimulating and practically useful information and advice among teachers.

• Western Criminology Review (WRC)
  A forum for the publication and discussion of theory, research, policy and practice in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. The journal is intended to reflect local (Western), national and international concerns. Historical and contemporary perspectives are welcome, as are diverse methodological approaches. The publication and distribution of articles will also be accompanied by electronic commentary and discussion. It is the official journal of the Western Society of Criminology. Editor: Patrick Jackson.

• Worldwide Attitudes (WwA)
  Publishes original research reports based on rigorous analysis of data from large, representative national sample surveys. The reports are drawn from sociology, demography, political science and economics. The website offers some sample WwA articles. Editor: M.D.R. Evans (Australian National University).

• Yale Journal of Sociology (YJS) [full text]
  An online full-text journal that published innovative research by the Yale Sociology scholarly community - graduate students, faculty members, emeriti faculty, visiting fellows, Yale alumni and participants in the Yale workshops, colloquia, and conferences. Its aim is to showcase the work done by the plural and fertile group of sociologists working in and around the Yale Sociology Department. The Journal includes articles by Jeffrey Alexander, Phil Smith, Karl Ulrich Mayer, among others, on topics ranging from cultural sociology to life course research in multiple substantive areas.

Middle East

Algeria
• NAQD - Revue d'Etudes et de Critique Sociale [table of content + abstracts]

  Egypt

• Civil Society
  A monthly newsletter that monitors the state of civil society and democratic consolidation in Egypt and the Arab world. It is published by the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies (ICDS) and is issued in separate English and Arabic versions.

  Iran

• Sociolog.ir
  

  Israel

• Crime and Social Deviance

• Journal of Social Work and Policy in Israel

• Nativ - Journal of Politica Thought

  Lebanon

• Abaad [table of contents]
  A quarterly jounal published in Arabic by The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS). [1994-1998]

  Palestine

• al-Siyasa al-Filastiniyya
  A quarterly journal on Palestine Policy, published by the Center for Palestine Research and Studies (CPRS), Nablus, Palestine. The journal wants to increase participation of Palestinian academics in evaluating and formulating policy options for decision-making facing the Palestinian leadership and to increase public debate on these policy issues.

• Al-Majdal
  A newsletter published by Badil, a Palestinian NGO that provides information and analysis on the question of Palestinian refugees. It will serve as a platform of communication between Palestinian refugees and all those - internationals and Israelis - who have taken up the challenge of working for Palestinian refugee rights and a just peace in the Middle East.

• Jerusalem Quarterly File (JQF)
  A journal dedicated to provides scholarly articles on Jerusalem's history and on the dynamics and trends currently shaping the city. It covers issues such as zoning and land appropriation, the establishment and expansion of settlements, regulations affecting the status of Arab residency in Jerusalem, demographic trends, and Palestinian negotiating strategies on the final status of Jerusalem. JQF is published by the Institute of Jerusalem Studies (IJS), and affiliate of the Institute for Palestine Studies

  United Arab Emirates

• Internet Al-Alam Arabi [Moved to ...?]
  The internet magazine of the Arab world.

Europe

• Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  Journal of the Centre for European Migration and Ethnic Studies and the Sussex Centre for Migration Provides: index and abstracts of journal issues, guidelines for contributors, information on subscription and ordering.

  Austria

• Österreichische Zeitschift für Soziologie (OZS) [abstracts]

  Croatia

• Discrepancy [full text]
  A student’s journal for social sciences and humanities, from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb.

• Journal of social policy [full text]

• Migration and Ethnic Themes [table of contents]
  Presented by the Institute for Migrations and Ethnicities (IMIN)

• Polemos [full text]

• Sociological review [full text]
  Published by the Croatian Sociological Association.

• Sociology of Space [full text]
  A journal for spatial and socio-cultural development studies. Published by the Institute of Social Research in Zagreb.

  Estonia

• Estonian Social Science Online (ESSO) [full text]

  Finland

• Science Studies [table of contents]
  An interdisciplinary journal for science and technology studies. Published by the Finnish Society for Science Studies.

  France

• Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales [table of contents + abstracts]

• AgonE [table of contents + abstracts]

• Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales [table of contents + abstracts]

• Annales de la recherche urbaine [table of contents + abstracts]

• Année sociologique [table of contents + abstracts]

• Archives de Sciences Sociales des religions [table of contents + abstracts]

• Ateliers. Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative [table of contents + abstracts]
  Publishes articles of young and established researchers.

• Autrepart: revue de sciences sociales au Sud [table of contents + abstracts]
  A journal that promotes reflection on the complexity and dynamics of the Southern societies and a new definition of their special character.

• Bulletin of Sociological Methodology (BMS)
  A quarterly scientific journal which publishes in both English and French. It contains research articles, extensive book and article reviews, as well as documentation and information on different meetings throughout the world. All research articles have abstracts in both English and French. Editor: Karl M. van Meter (Paris, France).

• Cahiers d'histoire (CH) [table of contents & abstracts]
  A journal published by six French universities.

• CAIRN
  A portal for 65 journals in social sciences (9 of which are on sociology).

• Ent'Revues
  A site for cultural journals.

• Esprit Critique
  An international journal which offers a communication space for sociologists. The journal stimulates debate on contemporary practices in sociology and presents original articles on different topics and approaches in social sciences. It contains research articles, special issues, editorials and bood reviews. Editor: Jean-François Marcotte.

• Ruralia [table of contenxt & abstracts]
  A scientific revue about rural world. Plurisciplinary (history, geography, sociology, economy). The official journal of the "L'association des ruralistes français (ARF).

• Revue française de sociologie

• revues.org
  Revues.org's goal is to promote social scientific publications on Internet.

• Sociologie du Travail
  Good as ever, but don't expect to get any content.

• Travail, Genre et Sociétes
  

  Germany

• Arbeit [table of contents abtracts in German and English]
  Zeitschrift für Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik. Publishes theoretical and empirical studies on labor issues.

• Berliner Journal für Soziologie (BJS) [abstracts in english and German].
  BJS (ISW, Humboldt University Berlin) is devoted to empirical as well as theoretical research in sociology and related fields of study.

• Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen
  German journal on new social movements. Concentrates on democratization, research on social movements, institutional transformation of society, and political sociology.

• Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZfSS) [table of contents + abstracts]
  Provides actual information on KZfSS, English summaries of the articles, a list of all special edtions, information on the history of this German journal.

• PROKLA [table of contents]
  A journal of critical social science. The online editorials are worth reading.

• Soziale Welt [abstracts in German and English]
  Journal for social research and practice. Published by "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Institute e.V.". Chief editor: Ulrich Beck.

• Soziale Systeme
  Zeitschrift für soziologische Theorie. A journal which focusses on the interface of systems theory and sociological theory. It is inspired by recent developments in systems theory (Niklas Luhmann, Humberto Maturana, Heinz von Foerster). It tries to cultivate a catholic interest in developments in sociological theorizing. Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany.

• Soziologische Revue
  Reviews of new literature.

• Zeitschrift für Soziologie [table of contents]

  Italy

• Alleo [full text]
  A contemporary cultures atlas. Editor: Allessandro Agostinelli.

• Sociologica [full text]
  Italian Journal of Sociology online. Includes contributions of Randall Collins, John Goldthorpe, Andrew Abbott, HC White, Paul Dimaggio, George Steinmetz, Johan Heilbron, Michele Lamont and others.

  Netherlands

• Agora
  Tijdschrift over ruimtelijke ontwikkeling en gebouwde omgeving(SISWO/KNAG).

• Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift [abstracts]
  Most articles are in Dutch, abstracts are English.

• Asian Journal of Social Science [table of contents + abstracts]
  3 Issues available online, from March 2002 to September 2002, including a free issue. Editor: Syed Farid Alata (National University of Singapore). Published by Brill Academic Publishers (Leyden, Netherlands).

• Continuous Improvement Monitor [full text]
  A peer-reviewd international journal of quality systems in education. Editor: José Llanes. Publisher: University of Texas Pan American.

• Focaal [abstracts]
  Anthropological journal, twice a year, dedicated to a subtler understanding of the basic questions human groups find themselves faced with, and explores the possible resources the deploy in their search for solutions. Editors: Toon van Meijl & Henk Driessen.

• Groene Amsterdammer, De
  The oldest, smallest, poorest and bravest weekly magazine in the Netherlands.

• Historical Materialism [table of contents + abstracts]
  5 Issues available online, from 2001 to 2002, including a free issue. Editor: Sebastian Budgen (London School of Economics). Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher (Leyden, Netherlands).

• Mens en Maatschappij [full text]

• Migrantenstudies (MS) [full text]
  A journal on migration and ethnical studies. Dutch only.

• Milieu Online
  Environmental magazine published by Samsom H.D. Tjeenk-Willink.

• Sociologie Magazine
  The magazine of the Dutch Sociological Association. It informes of the latest developments in the social sciences in the Netherlands and abroad.

• Perspectives on Global Development and Technology [table of contents + abstracts]
  6 Issues available online (2000-2002), including a free issue. Editor: Rubin Patterson (University of Toledo, USA). Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers (Leyden, Netherlands).

• Tijdschrift voor Seksuologie [abstracts]
  A journal of the Dutch and Flemmish Society for Sexuology.

  Portugal

• Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [table of contents + abstracts]
  A scientific journal in the field of the social sciences. It publishes research work on Portuguese society, and other related or comparable contexts. Published by the Centro de Investigaçâo e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES)), a sociology centre associated with ISCTE (Lisbon), and associated by the Department of Sociology of ISCTE.

  Russia

• New Generation
  The first Russian scientific journal distributed via Internet. Concentrates on medium- and long-term forecasts of socio-economic and political development of Russia and foreign countries. Initiated by the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of International Economic and Political Researches of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the society "Science", the Club of young directors "33". Editor-in-Chief: Igor Urupyn.

• Russian Sociological Forum (RSF) [full text]
  An international electronic journal in sociology published in Russia. It is a member of the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publications. The RSF is distributed free in order to promote uncommercialized scholarly communication. It is supported by the International Center for Sociological Education< and the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It publishes academic-level articles in all areas of sociology and related social sciences, commentaries to articles and book reviews. RSF publications are indexed in major social science Net-resources and referred to by the Electronic Journal of Sociology. Editor: Inna F. Deviatko.

  Scandinavia

• Acta Sociologica [table of contents]
  Journal of Scandinavian Sociological Association.

  Spain

• Anthropos [table of contents + abstracts]

• Barataria. Revista Castellano-Manchega de Ciencias Sociales [table of contents]

• Empiria [table of contents + abstracts]
  Journal of the sociology department of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Specializes on the methodology of the social sciences.

• Geo Crítica Review [full text]
  Concentrates on humanistic geography and social science, with a particular emphasis on urban geography, historical and cultural geography, and economic geography, as well as, on theory, historical and sociological science. Geo Crítica has been developed in the University of Barcelona. Some English articles are full-text and free.

• Papers - Revista de sociologia [full text]

• Revista Internacional de Sociología (RIS) [table of contents + abstracts]

  Switzerland

• Das Soziologie Magazin [full text]
  A publication platform for young sociologists. It presents messages on ongoing and completed research projects, essays on sociological questions and interviews on actual issues.

• Sociology in Switzerland
  Editors: Christoph Brönnimann, Hans Geser, Jürgen Stremlow (Soziologisches Institut der Universität Zürich).

  Turkey

• International Journal of Human Sciences
  

  United Kingdom

• Ageing and Society [table of contents + abstracts]
  Journal of The Centre for Policy on Ageing and The British Society of Gerontology

• British Journal of Criminology (BJC) [full text]
  The BJC is one of the most influential journals in its field in the Englishspeaking language. It is widely consulted by academics and researchers in criminology, probation and social work, and by professionals concerned with law, criminal justice, and penology. The BJC is published on behalf of ISTD: The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. Editor: G. Pearson.

• British Journal of Social Psychology
  The journal of the British Psychological Society (BPS). Abstracts and titles can be browsed or searched. For real content and interactive facilities you'll have to subscribe.

• Irish Journal of Sociology (IJS) [table of contents]
  The annual journal of the Sociological Association of Ireland. It is aimed at academics, researchers, and students in the fields of sociology and Irish Studies, as well as at those in the general public with an interest in systematic analysis of Irish society. You only get a table of content. Editor-in-chief: Denis O'Hearn.

• Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS)
  A peer-reviewed electronic journal (laundched in January 1999) aims to contribute to the exploration and understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation. It will provide academic and professional researchers with a forum for the exchange of information about this innovative and rapidly growing form of social science research. For an initial period of one year, subscriptions to the journal will be free of charge. Thereafter, there may be a subscription to defray the costs of editing and production. Editor: Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK).

• Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission (JoM-EMIT)
  A new peer-reviewed academic journal. This free journal seeks to develop the memetic perspective, with space devoted to relevant evolutionary issues and other related topics. Managing Editor: Hans-Cees Speel (Department of Policy Analysis, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands).

• JournalsOnline
  The BIDS JournalsOnline service offers a single point of access to an expanding range of full text electronic journals from leading academic publishers. It allows anyone, anywhere in the world, to search and browse the JournalsOnline database of articles free of charge, and to display bibliographic information and abstracts.

• New Left Review [table of contents + abstracts + some free full text articles
  A quality journal of the international Left. Editor: Perry Anderson.

• Population Studies [table of contents]
  Concentrates on methods of demographic analysis, conceptual and mathematical theories of demographic dynamics and behaviour, and the use of these theories en methods.

• Social Research Update (SRU) [full text]
  A quarterly electronic journal which covers new developments in social research, one per issue. Univ. of Surrey, UK. Methods of doing social research are continually advancing. New developments in information technology enable complex analyses to be carried out on a personal computer. Laptop computers and computer assisted telephone interviewing change fundamentally the way in which surveys are done. New statistical techniques are being developed which are better suited to the kinds of data which social researchers generally deal with. New approaches to qualitative data raise new theoretical and ethical problems. In face of all this change, social researchers, pressurised to produce results, often do not have time to keep up with the latest developments. It is this gap that SRU attempts to fill. Editor: Nigel Gilbert.

• Sociological Research Online (SRO) [abstracts]
  International journal for applied sociology. From the British Sociological Association. SRO uses multimedia delivery formats and provides training to enable users to maximise their use of the journal. It publishes high quality applied sociology, focusing on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions which engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics and debates. Promotes rapid communication among sociologists. Includes reviews, search facilities and a debating forum. The Search Engine allows you to search the full contents of the journal, for particular strings; useful to search for keywords or citations etc.Fully refereed, and fully free from charges. the journal. Edited by Liz Stanley.

• Theory, Culture and Society (TCS) - University of Teeside (UK).

  Ukraine

• Political Thought
  A joint internet publication of the Ukrainian Political Thought Journal and the Center for Political Analysis and Consulting.

Reference

• Academic Journals, Newspapers and Magazines - The English Server at Carnegie Mellon.

• ANU Library- Electronic Journals

• Digital Libraries: Electronic Journal and Text Archives
  List of resources that hold indices of electronic journals, particularly concerned with electronic publishing. Presented by the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions).

• Ejournal SiteGuide : a MetaSource

• GoldRush
  Lists ejournals and other online serials. The list is managed by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL). Provides background information about electronic journals, an alphabetically organized list of electronic journals by title, and other directories of electronic journals. You can search for titles of electronic journals by name or type.

• Electronic Periodicals in Social Science
  Editor: Lori Foulke (Education and Social Science Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, USA).

• eLib - Electronic Library Programme
  UK research projects on electronic publishing.

• El.pub - Electronic publishing R&D news and resources.

• Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek - Library of Univ. of Regensburg, Germany

• Hyperjournal
  A discussion list devoted exclusively to electronic journals, especially those which publish on the World Wide Web. It is concerned with all aspects of the production and publication of electronic journals, particularly those managed by academics themselves. Editors: Damien Keown (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and Wayne Husted (Penn State University).

• IngentaConnect
  Free searching of millions of academic and professional articles from thousands of journals online. Easy to get a list of all social science journals.

• International Consortium of Alternative Academic Publications (ICAAP)
  A Canadian initiative dedicated to the development of an international scholarly communication system outside of the commercial mainstream. ICAAP journals are freeware or low cost shareware publications. ICAAP has developed its own SGML application, called ICAAP eXtended Markup Language, for use in archiving and producing scholarly content. IXML provides a complete scholarly journal markup system that is far superior to HATML for producing critical content (e.g. journal articles).

• JAKE - Jointly administered knowledge environment
  A reference source which facilitates finding, managing, and linking online journals and journal articles. Jake manages metadata about online resources with a database union list, titel authority control, and linking tools. You can customize the tool for a specific library's holdings.

• JSTOR
  A comprehensive electroic archive of important scholarly journal literature. The basis aim of the JSTOR project was to convert the back issues of paper journals into electronic formats that would allow savings in space while simultaneously improving access to the journal content. It covers disciplines such as anthropology, asian studies, ecology, economics, education, history, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.

• Kidon's Medialink World Wide
  Onward links to mass media sources.

• Magazines on Society and Culture - Yahoo!

• New Jour
  Listing of serial publications (new journals and newsletters) available via the internet. Editors: Ann Shmelda Okerson (Yale University) and James J. O’Donnell (University of Pennsylvania).

• Project Muse
  A database of more than 100 full-text humanities and social science journals from the John Hopkins University Press and nine other university presses.

• PSYCline
  A guide to psychology and social science journals on the web. Editor: Armin Günther (University of Augsburg, Germany).

• PubList: Social Science

• ScienceDirect - Elsevier
  Access to over 1100 electronic journals from Elsevier. It provides a search engine to allow searching across journal titles and article abstracts.

• Serials in Cyberspace
  Links to sites with electronic journal collections and services in the US and worldwide.

• Sheffield
  Electronic journals in the social sciences.

• U.S. ISSN Center - National Serials Data Program. Library of Congress.

• Vera - Virtual Electronic Resource Access (MIT)

• Wiley Interscience
  Full-text access to more than 300 science journals. Customers who hold full rate subscriptions are entitled to activate online access for their authorized users to the full text of those users. Access to tables of contents and abstracts for Wiley journals is also available to guest users.

Articles on Electronic Publishing and Journals

• Bailey, C. W. Jr.
  Scholarly electronic publishing bibliography
  A very good, frequently updated bibliography on electronic and interactive publication in the academic world.

• Benschop, Albert [1997]
  Interactief publiceren in elektronische tijdschriften
  Article on interactive publishing, electronic journals, peer reviewing, and the revolution in scientific communication. In Dutch.

• Harnad, Steven
  E-Prints on interactive publication
  A collection of some fabulous articles on scholarly skywriting, interactive publication, and implementing peer review on the net.

• Odlyzko, Andrew
  Papers on Electronic Publishing and Elektronic Commerce
  A collection of excellent papers on all aspects of electronic publishing and commerce.

• Sosteric, Mike [1996a]
  Electronic Journals and Scholarly Communication: Notes and Issues
  In: Electronic Journal of Sociology 1(2), 1996.
  Scholarly communication has virtually exploded into the on-line electronic world. This has brought a number of demonstrable benefits to the scholarly communication process as well as highlighting a number of inefficiencies and obstacles to the full deployment of information technology. The explosion has also brought a spate of credulous accounts concerning the transformative potential of information technology. These accounts, though well intentioned, do not contribute to a sociological understanding of information technology in general, or its effect on the scholarly communication process more specifically. In order to develop our understanding of the relevant issues, a critical and empirical analysis will need to be undertaken in order to get out from under the cultural values that have clouded the analysis of information technology thus far.

• Sosteric, Mike [1996b]
  Electronic Journals: The Grand Information Future?
  In: EJS 2(2), 1996.
  This article examines the political economy of scholarly publication. Sosteric outlines the contours of the current crises in the scholarly communication system, and discusses how individual electronic scholarly publication projects have challenged the traditional publishing houses by offering alternative models of scholarly publication that more closely fit with the needs of the academy. The article then looks at some of the - aggressive - ways in which the traditional interests have responded to the threat posed by the independent publishers. The article closes with a warning about a possible shift, made possible by advanced information technologies, in the way the scholarly communication system is funded. After examining the potential for the development of a user pay-per service, the article concludes with a warning about the academic and intellectual fallout of a move away from a collectively funded scholarly communication project.

• Sosteric, Mike [1999]
  The EJS and SGML Production: A New Era in Scholarly Communication
  In: EJS 4, 1999.

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Editor: dr. Albert Benschop Department of Sociology and Anthropology Social & Behavioral Sciences University of Amsterdam Created: July, 1996 Last modified: 24th January, 2012