22 Apr 2009

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell (JCCA)
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Leibniz-Institut fuer Globale und Regionale Studien, Hamburg, Germany
Self-description:
"The Journal of Current Chinese Affairs [formerly China aktuell, est. 1972 - ed.] is an internationally refereed academic journal jointly published by the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg and the National Institute of Chinese Studies, White Rose East Asia Centre, United Kingdom. The quarterly journal focuses on current developments in Greater China. It is simultaneously published online as Open Access Journal and as printed version with a circulation of 1,000 copies, making it one of the world's most widely read periodicals on Asian affairs.
The Journal of Current Chinese Affairs reaches a broad international readership in academia, administration and business circles. It is devoted to the transfer of scholarly insights to a wide audience. The Journal is committed to publish high-quality, original research on current issues in China in a format and style that is accessible across disciplines and to professionals with an interest in the region.
[...] On the web page http://www.giga-hamburg.de/china-aktuell interested readers will find abstracts and the table of contents of former issues of the journal. From this web page you also have free access to all issues of the China Data Supplement. [....] http://www.giga-hamburg.de/ias/cds. [In Apr 2008 the CDS site was rated by the AS WWW Monitor as an "Essential" resource and its abstract was recorded in http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/database/2008/Monitor2008-187.html - ed.] Th[e] journal provides immediate open [online] access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge."
Site contents:
* About; * Announcements; * Archives [by Apr 2009 only one issue has been archived - Vol 38, No 1 (2009): Macau: Ten Years after the Handover - ed.]; * Submissions; * Contact; * Editorial Team; * GIGA Journal Family.
URL http://www.CurrentChineseAffairs.org
Link reported by: Petra Brandt (brandt--at--giga-hamburg.de), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30