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Journal of Deliberative Democracy

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy. It is the forum for the latest thinking, emerging debates, alternative perspectives, as well as critical views on deliberation. The journal welcomes submissions from all theoretical and methodological traditions. It aims to be the platform to broker knowledge between scholars and practitioners of citizen engagement.

The journal is supported by the newDemocracy Foundation, the Deliberative Democracy Consortium and the International Association for Public Participation. It is hosted at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra, Australia and published by University of Westminster Press.

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Entertainment and Sports Law Journal

The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal (ESLJ) is an open access, refereed journal published by University of Westminster Press (UWP). It has an extremely wide reach, with articles from the journal having been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times and is abstracted via EBSCO and in Hein Online. The editors are keen to receive new submissions and are happy to discuss with interested prospective authors.

The journal was first published more than 20 years ago with Frank Cass Publishers, and was originally known as the Entertainment Law Journal, the ESLJ eventually found its home at UWP after a period at the Warwick online journals project – we were early adopters of the open access model. The founding editors wanted to build on momentum in the area, both in terms of the increasing breadth of research in the area, and the emergence of more and more taught degrees – the University of Westminster for example, in many ways the home of the ESLJ, ran the first Entertainment Law option on an LLB in UK in 1992, and created the first postgraduate LLM Entertainment Law degree in 1999. Sport was added to the journal title largely as a reflection of the amount of sport related papers we were receiving at that time, but the journal’s coverage has in fact always been eclectic as our original about section notes:

The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal is a refereed, online, open access journal. It is located within a dynamic and rapidly expanding area of legal theory and practice. Whilst focused within legal study, the areas it encompasses are necessarily interdisciplinary. Entertainment Law, Media Law, Sports Law, IP Law, Licensing Law – these are all subjects that are taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level at increasing numbers of Law Schools in the UK and beyond. Areas that are of interest to ESLJ include the ways in which the law and regulatory frameworks operate in the following industries: music, sport, film, theatre and literature, art, gaming, the night time economy and the Internet and social media.

The very first volume, for example, included David Miers on gambling, Lee Marshall on the napster wars, Raymond Schneider on celebrity photographs and copyright, Paul Chatterton on governing nightlife, Tom Lewis on art and human rights and Lindsay Gregg on blasphemy in music contracts. We’ve had special issues on themes such as Celebrity Big Brother, and have a series of special collections that draw together articles from across issues and volumes on related themes. In addition to longer articles we also have Interventions (which are shorter, often policy related, although they could also be case note form etc) and have published interviews and are open to other creative ideas.

The current editorial team are Steve Greenfield (Westminster), Mark James (MMU), Ashley Lowerson (Northumbria) and Guy Osborn (Westminster). We would love to have more submissions from socio-legal scholars and are happy to talk to interested authors, contact details here. If you have a piece ready you would like to be consider for inclusion please see our author guidelines here.

Guy Osborn G.Osborn@westminster.ac.uk

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Silk Road: A Journal of Eurasian Development

Silk Road: A Journal of Eurasian Development is an open access, peer reviewed journal. It exists to promote evidence-based scholarly research in the social sciences and public policy studies that make the affairs of the Great Silk Road countries an area of significant interest, scholarship and impact. Applied interdisciplinary and empirical papers are welcomed.

The journal is intended for the reader from the academic, policy and private sectors with an interest in research specifically applied in the context of Silk Road countries. We welcome thematic clusters of articles on a topic that have an analytical synergy interesting for wide audiences. Thematic clusters should organize articles describing a problem, issue or phenomenon, potentially linking varying fields and disciplines. The primary category for submissions is original research articles. Issues might also include commentaries (1500-3000 usually), interviews (1500), policy papers (3000) and book reviews (1000-1500).

All research articles undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous double-blind refereeing by two referees. The journal intends to address readers, particularly young scholars, in Uzbekistan and the broader Silk Road region. It will keep its readership informed as to the latest trends and issues in economics, business and policy (e.g., demography, education, health, the environment, transport etc.).

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Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman

Our time is known as the Anthropocene. Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman has been established to become a leading global interdisciplinary journal at the centre of conceptual debates and practices. Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman's core contributor base and readership will be in the social sciences, arts and humanities although often social and political thought will be applied to aspects of the natural or ‘hard’ sciences.

The journal is about the invitation to rethink notions such as abstraction, art, architecture, design, governance, ecology, law, politics and discourses of science in the context of human, inhuman and posthuman frameworks.

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Active Travel Studies

Active Travel Studies is a peer reviewed, open access journal intended to provide a source of authoritative research on walking, wheeling, cycling and other forms of active travel. In the context of a climate emergency, widespread health problems associated with inactivity, and poor air quality caused in large part by fossil fuel transport, the journal is relevant and timely. It performs the critical function of providing practitioners and policy makers with access to current and robust findings on all subjects relevant to active travel.

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Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC) engages international scholars in a critical debate about the relationship between communication, culture and society in the 21st century.

WPCC is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, published online. The interdisciplinary nature of the field of Media and Cultural Studies is reflected in the diverse methods, contexts and themes of the papers published. Areas of interest include – but are not limited to – the history and political economy of the media, popular culture, media users and producers, political communication and developments arising from digital technologies in the context of an increasingly globalized and networked world.

Contributions from both established scholars and those at the beginning of their academic career are equally welcome.

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