The Journal der Austrian Association für Amerika Studien (JAAAS; ISSN 2616-9533) is a peer-reviewed open access diamond journal that creates an interdisciplinary space for debate on all aspects of American Studies. It serves as a forum for specialists in American Studies in Austria and the worldwide academic community. The journal is published twice a year and accepts submissions on a wide range of topics with the goal of expanding multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on American cultures.

JAAAS does not charge article processing charges (APCs). All academic content is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Accordingly, the authors retain the copyright to their contributions, while JAAAS only has the right of first publication. Creative content can be published under various Creative Commons licenses.

By questioning the notion of "America" and considering the United States in the context of its transnational and (trans)hemispheric connections, JAAAS aims to challenge disciplinary boundaries by bringing together original and innovative work by scholars from subjects as diverse as literature, cultural studies, film and new media, visual arts, ethnic studies, indigenous studies, performance studies, queer studies, border studies, mobility studies, aging studies, play studies, and animal studies. In addition to providing insights into transnational and international American literary and cultural studies and European perspectives on America, the journal also provides a platform for academic findings that address history, music, politics, geography, ecocriticism, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, law, and many other aspects of American culture and society.

Re:visit. Humanities & Medicine in Dialogue is an open-access journal published online. Its principal aims are twofold: firstly, to illuminate existing interfaces between medicine and the humanities from a comprehensive array of cultural perspectives; and secondly, to build a platform for newly emerging fields of interdisciplinary research and thought. By creating an open dialogue, Re:visit strives to prevent the humanities from being ‘medicalized’ in the sense of being reduced to a mere facilitator of competencies for medical staff; next to that, the journal seeks to undermine the risk that an inadequate notion of being superior may cause the humanities and cultural sciences to ‘discipline’ medicine. Instead of tying medicine and the humanities to specific role expectations, Re:visit, which publishes articles in English and German, thus understands itself as the first journal in the German-speaking research community that focuses on the manifold possibilities emerging from the dialogue between medicine and the humanities, both with respect to its potentials and synergies and its risks and side effects.

ATeM is a peer-reviewed cultural studies journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary investigation of the multiple facets of text-and-music relations. These include both popular genres (from the classical chanson to rap, from the folk song to pop music, from the musical revue to film music) and genres belonging to the classical music tradition (madrigal, opera, operetta) as well as mixed genres like the musical or the zarzuela situated at the crossroads of high and popular culture. The temporal dimension encompasses all historic periods, with a particular focus on the 20th and 21st centuries. With regard to the cultural and linguistic backgrounds, the focus is on the countries and territories in which Romance languages are spoken.

ATeM is the official publication medium of the Archives of Text and Music Studies located at the University of Innsbruck since 1986. It continues the Bulletin des Archivs für Textmusikforschung (BAT), which was published in print from 1998 to 2015. Research articles to be published in ATeM (but not editorials, interviews, reviews and contributions to "Forum") undergo a peer-reviewing process.

ATeM is published one a year (since 2024 in January, previously in December). All contributions to be taken into consideration in the current year have to respect the Publication Guidelines and must be submitted electronically (Word file) by the end of June. They can be written in German, French, Italian, Spanish or in English where appropriate. Musical examples and references can be integrated in online quotations.

Didaktik slawischer Sprachen (Didactis of Slavic Languages) (DiSlaw) is an Open Access journal that is published twice a year and follows a strict double-blind peer review process. DiSlaw is listed in the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals).

DiSlaw meets the urgent need for a subject-specific journal focused on the teaching and learning of Slavic foreign and heritage languages in German-speaking regions. It combines theoretical foundations with practical approaches to address the challenges of guided language acquisition.

We – the editorial team – do not see subject didactics as a mere collection of best practice examples but rather as a research-driven, theory-based, and practice-oriented discipline. Therefore, DiSlaw provides a publication platform for various types of contributions that engage with the teaching and learning of Slavic languages. In addition to scientific-theoretical articles and theory-guided studies from teaching practice, DiSlaw also publishes practical teaching examples and book reviews (e.g., of textbooks).

DiSlaw presents itself as a multilingual journal, publishing articles in German and English as well as in Bosnian, Croatian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, and Ukrainian. The journal is also open to contributions in other Slavic languages.

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Digital Icons

Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (Digital Icons) is an online publication that appears twice a year. The journal is a multi-media platform that explores new media as a variety of information flows, varied communication systems and networked communities. The main goal of the journal is to disseminate research on new media in the region across global communities of scholars, media practitioners and the general public. Contributions to Digital Icons cover a broad range of topics related to the impact of digital and electronic technologies on politics, economics, society, culture and the arts in Russia, Eurasia and Central Europe. The journal publishes works that explore developments in information and communications technologies and their impact on the governance, economy and cultural life of the region. Submissions focusing on internet use and new media forms among the various diasporas of the region are also welcome.

Digital Icons publishes articles by scholars from a variety of academic backgrounds, as well as artists’ contributions, interviews, comments, reviews of books, digital films, animation and computer games, and and information on relevant cultural and academic events as well as any other forms of discussion of new media in the region. The journal is supported by the University of Leeds.

Digital Icons has a rigorous peer review process. All submissions are reviewed by members of the editorial and advisory board. In addition to this, all research articles are reviewed anonymously by two independent external experts.
In addition to regular issues, Digital Icons publishes special thematic issues investigating a specific aspect of new media usage in the region. Special issues are normally guest-edited and Digital Icons invites proposals for special issues in a variety of fields.

This book series is co-edited by Astrid Fellner, Klaus Rieser and Hanna Wallinger and is published by LIT Verlag. It was the main publication medium of the Austrian Association for American Studies from 2003 to 2018, as volumes on the annual conferences were published in the series. The series is still open for submissions, but the conferences now serve as the basis for special issues or thematic clusters in JAAAS.

The Open Journal System (OJS) is a system for managing and publishing online journals. At the University of Innsbruck, it is set up and maintained be the zid. The OJS provides support for all steps involved in creating a journal (submission, peer review, feedback from peer reviewers on authors, etc.) and offers the option of assigning different roles to registered users. The appearance of the relevant website can be configured separately for each journal directly in the OJS.

OJS-Guide

The OJS-guide available here is a comprehensive manual covering the various functions and configuration options of OJS version 3.4, released in May 2023. It contains information on everything users need to use the software to publish and manage content as a site administrator, journal manager, editor, peer reviewer, and/or author. It provides detailed instructions with screenshots for applying journal and website settings, using and configuring the editorial workflow including making submissions and peer review, managing users, using statistics, and configuring subscriptions.