100+ years of political science research soon to be available in digital form
More than a century's worth of political science research and insight from the American Political Science Association (APSA) is being added to the Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) digital archive with the first additions of seminal political journals the American Political Science Review (APSR) and PS: Political Science and Politics (PS). Working together, Cambridge Journals and APSA plan to have both journals fully archived by early 2013.
The entire back catalogue of the two journals is being digitized by Cambridge University Press to offer the American politics scholar an unrivaled repository of learning and thought, spanning some of the most politically seismic and absorbing events of the 20th and early 21st centuries in America. For the APSR, this means the full addition of all volumes prior to 2001 – 94 volumes in total between 1906 and 2000. For PS, the first 33 volumes of the journal will be added in full, dating back to its inaugural issue in 1968.
To celebrate this endeavor, Cambridge Journals is adding a special selection of twenty articles from the APSR to the CJO archive, which can found at journals.cambridge.org/classictwenty.
Among the first twenty to the archive are:
- Seymour Martin Lipset, Some Social Requisites of Democracy:
- Economic Development and Political Legitimacy (1959)
- Arthur H. Miller, Political Issues and Trust in Government (1974)
- Michael Doyle, Liberalism and World Politics (1986)
As the top general research journal in political science in the world and highest ISI rates political science journal, the APSR celebrates 106 years of continuous publication in November 2012. The APSR first appeared in 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake, the second Geneva Convention and the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Theodore Roosevelt. Mary Astor, Fred Whipple and Leonid Brezhnev were born, SOS was agreed on as the international distress call and the first radio broadcast was made. Standing as the seminal research journal in the field, the APSR continues to publish groundbreaking political science research over 100 years after its first issue.
PS will publish the fourth issue of its 45th volume, which includes a forecast symposium on the 2012 U.S. presidential election. First published in 1968, PS publishes peer-reviewed political science research and remains the "journal of record" reporting on quarterly professional news, commentary, and information on political scientists' achievements and professional concerns.
Communications technology has moved at lightning speed since that first broadcast over the airwaves and now all the riches of the APSR and PS, covering surely one of the most fascinating time-spans in human history, will soon be available at the touch of a button.
Additionally, APSA's third journal, Perspectives on Politics, is celebrating its tenth year of publication, and all ten volumes from 2003 to 2012 can be found online at journals.cambridge.org/pps.
Provided by Cambridge University Press
