More than fifty years of issues of the Social and Economic Studies journal, published by the University of the West Indies (UWI), are now available free on the JSTOR (Journal Storage) database.
The quarterly peer-reviewed journal has been produced since 1953 by the UWI’s Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the UWI Jamaica campus.
Researchers can access and download all editions until 2007 through JSTOR Arts and Sciences VI collection.
The Social and Economic Studies journal currently has a circulation of 2,000 institutions, universities and policymakers around the world, reaching approximately 5,000 readers.
Its editorial committee includes Verene Shepherd, head of gender and development studies at UWI Jamaica and her colleague, pollster and sociologist Ian Boxill; Silvio Torres-Saillant, a professor in English at Syracuse University; and Aaron Kamugisha, lecturer in cultural studies at UWI Barbados.
The JSTOR database now also includes the Caribbean Studies journal published by the University of Puerto Rico (UPR).
The database includes editions from 1961 to 2009, which are published in English, Spanish and French.
The Caribbean Studies journal is published by the UPR’s Institute of Caribbean Studies, established in 1958 as part of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The database includes editions from 1961 to 2009, which are published in English, Spanish and French.
JSTOR is a non-profit online digital database was established in 1995 to help the academic community use digital technologies to preserve scholarly records and advance research and teaching, according to its website.