Romanische Forschungen is one of the oldest German academic journals dedicated to the study of the Romance languages, their literatures, and cultures from all periods. Its editors and editorial board emphasize the interrelatedness of linguistics and literary studies and encourage the submission of articles and reviews with a focus on the Romance world as a whole. Romanische Forschungen publishes in all the major Romance languages, German and English.Die Romanischen Forschungen sind eine der ältesten deutschen Fachzeitschriften. Ihr Gegenstand sind die romanischen Sprachen, Literaturen und Kulturen von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Herausgeber und Beirat pflegen die Verbindung von Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft und bevorzugen Beiträge und Rezensionen mit einer gesamtromanischen Fragestellung. Die Publikationssprachen sind außer allen romanischen Sprachen das Deutsche und Englische.
A forum for cutting-edge research, Rural Sociology (RS) explores sociological and interdisciplinary approaches to emerging issues, new approaches to recurring questions and material, and policy relevant discussions of changes in local and global systems affecting rural people and places. In addition to its long-time interest in sociological approaches to understanding the challenges facing rural people and places, RS also publishes scholarly work on a variety of more specific issues such as community revitalization, rural demographic changes, rural poverty, natural resource conflicts, environmental impacts, and the structure of food and agricultural production.
Russian Journal of Communication (RJC) is an international peer-reviewed academic publication devoted to studies of communication in, with, and about Russia and Russian-speaking communities around the world. RJC welcomes both humanistic and social scientific scholarly approaches to communication, which is broadly construed to include mediated information as well as face-to-face interactions. RJC seeks papers and book reviews on topics including philosophy of communication, traditional and new media, film, literature, rhetoric, journalism, information-communication technologies, cultural practices, organizational and group dynamics, interpersonal communication, communication in instructional contexts, advertising, public relations, political campaigns, legal proceedings, environmental and health matters, and communication policy. RJC is open to all methodological perspectives and welcomes theoretical, empirical, critical, comparative, historical, and interdisciplinary studies.
RJC follows a double-blind peer review process to maintain its high standard of scholarship. All research materials published in RJC have undergone rigorous evaluation, based on initial editor screening and review by at least two anonymous referees. The turn-around review time is up to a maximum of three months. RJC will be published in three online issues per year. A print and bound copy of the volume will also be published annually.
RJC regularly includes a section entitled 'What? When? Where?', which lists up-to-date information about conferences and events of interest to the readers of RJC .
Russian Linguistics is an international forum for all scholars working in the field of Slavic linguistics (Russian and other Slavic languages) and its manifold diversity, ranging from phonetics and phonology to syntax and the linguistic analysis of texts (text grammar), including both diachronic and synchronic problems. Besides original articles and reviews, Russian Linguistics publishes surveys of current scholarly writings from other periodicals. Topics that fall within the scope of the journal include: Traditional-structuralist as well as generative-transformational and other modern approaches to questions of synchronic and diachronic grammar: Phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and semantics of Russian and other Slavic languages (synchronic and diachronic): Philological problems of Russian / Old-Russian texts as well as texts in other Slavic languages: Grammar of Russian and other Slavic languages in their relation to linguistic universals: History of Russian and other Slavic literary languages: Slavic dialectology.
This bimonthly journal publishes thematic issues featuring translations of some of the most important political science articles by authors working in the Soviet successor states. Selections are drawn from both print and electronic sources, as well as from previously unpublished work. The materials selected include both articles examining the politics of the region and theoretical works of interest to the field as a whole. Each issue includes a substantive introduction to the theme by the chief editor or a guest editor who is an expert on the issue's theme.The complete digital archives of Russian Politics & Law beginning with Volume 1 (1962) are available free of charge to current institutional subscribers for the life of the paid subscription.Volumes 1-38 (1962-2000) are also included in the Russian & East European digital archive collection available for one-time purchase to non-subscribers."Articles cover domestic and foreign policy, legislative development, law enforcement, intra- and intergovernmental relations, and political party development. ... Recommended as an important purchase for special, academic, and research libraries. -Magazines for Libraries"Even in the dark(ish) day of US-Soviet relations in the early 1980s, ... [the journal] made available important source material demonstrating that, however dull the political surface, scholarship continued to plough its various furrows, and turned up a wealth of material that must have had a subversive effect over the longer term. -Irish Slavonic Studies.