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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Open Access Journal

Journal of Asia Pacific Studies

The Journal of Asia Pacific Studies aims to serve as an outlet for research dealing with the interdisciplinary field of Asia Pacific Studies. As one of the most dynamic regions in the world, the Asia Pacific is of interest to a vast array of scholars and practitioners from many fields. Interest in the region is no longer limited to a few elite centers in the Global North but rather has spread to Latin America and other regions of the developing world. Moreover, Central America has started to look East as a way to diversify its traditional reliance on the Atlantic and North America. Due to the previously mentioned increased interest in the Pacific and Asia as its hub, the Guild of Independent Scholars in cooperation with several prominent Asian Scholars and Practitioners is launching the Journal of Asia Pacific Studies as an early step in the process leading to the establishment of the Central American Institute of Asia Pacific Studies (CAI-APS).
It is the hope of the Guild of Independent Scholars that the Journal will provide a link between the two regions and serve as a mean of communication for scholars and practitioners interested in Asia Pacific Studies. Since the field of Asia Pacific Studies is at an early stage in Central America the Journal aims to have an effect not only in the academic community but also at the policy making level. Thus, policy oriented papers will be given priority and the Journal will be distributed among the policy making community of Central America.
JAPS is indexed and catalogued in the Directory of Open Access Journals, EBSCOhost, the online Bibliography of Asian Studies of the Association of Asian Studies, and OpenJGate

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

New Open Access Journal

Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies

Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.

The Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies publishes three modes of publication: articles, polemics (short essays) and book reviews.

The Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies is associated with the British International Studies Association working group: Global and Transnational Politics and with theGlobal Studies Association.

The Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies is a fully peer-reviewed, open-access, academic journal that invites contributors to challenge dominant ideas of globalisation. The journal seeks to bring cutting edge theoretical and critical reflection to bear on dominant and/or mainstream debates within the study of globalisation.

Rather than exploring globalisation in solely economic terms, the journal is an attempt to understand globalisation from a variety of different and overlapping perspectives: economic, political, philosophical, cultural, geographical, social, and historical, amongst many others. To this end the journal encourages contributions from writers and disciplines that are not commonly associated with the study of globalisation, having already published pieces from researchers working in theatre and music departments.

Abstracts available online. Articles available in HTML and PDF format.

Current Issue: Issue 2, 2010

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Library Week

South African Library Week - "Reading Changes Lives": 20 - 27 March 2010

Off Track? Findings from South Africa's First APRM Implementation Report

Turianskyi, Y. 2010. Off Track? Findings from South Africa's First APRM Implementation Report. Occational Paper no.53. Published by South African Institute of International Affairs. Access:23 March 2010.