Humboldt Journal of Social Relations
About This Journal
HJSR Today
The Humboldt Journal of Social Relations (HJSR) is a peer reviewed, open-access journal housed in the Department of Sociology at Cal Poly Humboldt. Journal staff produce an annual themed spring edition on a current issue or topic. While the articles primarily draw authors from the social sciences, we have also facilitated interdisciplinary collaborations among authors from the arts, humanities, natural sciences and the social sciences.Open Access Statement
HJSR is an open-access journal and is freely available on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful non-commercial purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. Our authors maintain control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. We do not charge any fees, processing or otherwise, to authors. This is in accordance with the definition of open access provided by the BOAI.Founding and Changes
HJSR was founded in 1973 by Dr. Samuel Oliner. Since then HJSR has regularly published peer reviewed original research from multiple disciplines. During the early years, the journal maintained an open submission policy, was subscription based, and was available only in hard copy. In 2012, HJSR moved to online publishing of free topic-focused annual editions. In 2013 HJSR contracted with JSTOR to digitize and archive all past and future journal issues. Printed copies of issues produced since 2018 are also available for private purchase through Amazon.electronic issues of the journal are also distributed by EBSCO and JSTOR and are available through most university library systems. The archive of all print-only HJSR issues was digitized in 2013 by JSTOR and the full text e-prints are available solely through their databases.
