Australia has lost 140 journals in a decade. That's damaging for local research and education

  • Written by: Hamid R. Jamali, Associate Professor and Associate Head, School of Information and Communication Studies, Charles Sturt University
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At least 140 Australian journals ceased publication in the past decade. While there are still more than 650 Australian journals, 75% of the discontinued ones served the arts, social sciences and humanities disciplines. The loss of journals has significant implications for local scholarship.

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