In 2008, the Australian government announced plans for a new research quality and evaluation system called the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. One of the indicators used is discipline-specific journal rankings, and they’ve just released the 2010 Ranked Journal List which assigns a rating of A*, A, B, or C to 20,712 unique peer reviewed journals.

Not surprisingly, the key publications of the American Anthropological Association fared well: American Anthropology, and American Ethnologist received the highest grades of A* while Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Current Anthropology, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, and Ethos all received respectable grades of  A. UBC Library subscribes to all of these journals via Anthrosource.

Thanks to Greg Downey at the Culture Matters blog for compiling and coding all the anthropology journals into a single manageable spreadsheet, which you can access in pdf form here.

The editors of New Proposals, a transnational peer-reviewed journal hosted at The University of British Columbia in collaboration with the UBC Library eJournal Project, are pleased to announce that the third issue, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2008) is now available.

This issue contains four articles and two commentaries, including a paper by Brian Thom on treaty negotiations in BC, Diane Grant on sex workers and regulation as well as two interdisciplinary papers on theory (questions of regulation and Gramsci’s idea of hegemony).

The journal is online at http://www.newproposals.ca

The editors of the journal New Proposals [http://www.newproposals.ca] invite submissions for Volume 2.

New Proposals is a journal of Marxism and interdisciplinary Inquiry that is dedicated to the radical transformation of the contemporary world order. All papers are peer-reviewed, and the journal is open access and fully electronic. The journal is hosted at The University of British Columbia in collaboration with the UBC Library EJournal Project.

For more on the journal’s mandate and the submission guidelines, see: http://www.newproposals.ca/

The most recent issue of Anthropology Today (Feb. 2008 (24:1)) is out. It’s called the “Virtual Issue: War on Terror”, and it includes a number of articles on the ethical dilemmas surrounding the involvement of anthropologists and other social scientists in military and intelligence agency pursuits, including articles on the controversial involvement of anthropologists in the US Human Terrain Systems (HTS). (See my earlier posting here
for more resources on HTS.)

Some articles such as Roberto Gonzalez’ “‘Human terrain’. Past, present and future applications” are new, others have been reprinted from earlier issues for this thematic issue, including:

The April issue of the journal Anthropology Today is out. This issue begins with a guest editorial by Jonathan Benthall in which he explores reasons why anthropologists, who have studied most other social movements including environmentalism, have focused so little attention on the animal liberation and rights movement. The editorial is prompted by a 2006 article by Agustin Fuentes on “The Humanity of Animals and the Animality of Humans” published in the journal American Anthropologist.

UBC Library subscribes to the electronic editions of both journals. You can read the articles online by clicking the link in the citations below:

Benthall, J. (2007). Animal liberation and rights. Anthropology Today 23 (2), 1–3.
Fuentes, A. (2006). The Humanity of Animals and the Animality of Humans: A View from Biological Anthropology Inspired by J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello. American Anthropologist 108 (1), 124-132.

(Note: Off-campus, UBC Faculty and Students can access these articles by connecting via the VPN. Instructions here.)

The latest issue of Anthropology Today is out. Articles in this issue include:

UBC Library subscribes to Anthropology Today online through Blackwell-Synergy. UBC students and faculty can access these articles off-campus by connecting through VPN.