Australian Humanities Review provides a forum for open intellectual debate across humanities disciplines, about all aspects of social, cultural and political life, primarily (but not exclusively) with reference to Australia. It aims to present new and challenging debates in the humanities to both an academic and a non-academic readership, both within and outside of Australia. AHR welcomes contribu
tions from scholars working in all disciplines of the humanities, including literary and film studies, cultural and media studies, gender studies, history, politics, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Please note that we do not publish poetry or creative writing. All articles published in AHR are blind refereed by two academic reviewers, either by members of the editorial board, or by external referees where special expertise is required. Australian Humanities Review supports free speech and tries to avoid censorship. We are committed to the promotion of open intellectual debate in the context of high standards of scholarship. We regard such a practice as a basic means of expression – and thus a basic right – of diverse individuals and communities, and see our promotion of free speech as fundamental to the protection of intellectual and artistic expression. AHR has been publishied as an Open Access publication since 1996 according to the definition of the Budapest Open Access Initiative: “By ‘open access’, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.” See http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm )
AHR is listed with the Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/
AHR and is proud to be part of Open Humanities Press (http://openhumanitiespress.org/). AHR is included on the DEST register of scholarly refereed journals, and on Ulrichs, the international register of scholarly journals.
