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Presents a 50-year overview of the production and dissemination of the articles published in "Papers in Regional Science" as of 2004. Historical background on the development of the journal; Concept and contents of the golden anniversary issue of the journal; Developments in the field of regional science.

The aim of this journal is to provide a medium for the publication of original papers covering the entire span of sociological thought and research. The editor is particularly keen to publish work on current developments in research and analysis. All contributions, correspondence and books for review should be addressed to The British Journal of Sociology, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London. Papers submitted for publication are normally read by at least two assessors as well as by one of the editors. The editor's decision will be final. A decision of an article will usually be sent to authors within four months of submission, however, whilst every effort will be made to follow this practice, it should be understood that there may be circumstances where this will be difficult to guarantee. Articles submitted to the journal should be an original piece of work, not been published before and not being considered for publication elsewhere in its final form either in printed or electronic form.

This article presents guidelines to contributors of the "British Journal of Sociology." Papers submitted for publication are normally read by at least two assessors as well as by one of the Editors. The Editor's decision will be final. Articles submitted to the journal should be an original piece of work, not been published before, and not being considered for publication elsewhere in its final form either in printed or electronic form.

This article offers insights on issues related to open-access publishing. For the author, open access is not a free publication system, however, it incurs costs just as on-paper traditional journal publishing does; the model used by many open-access publishers, whereby the author pays a fee on publication, derives from STM grants and awards practice and disadvantages social science and humanities authors who typically receive no costs of publication elements in their grants, or researchers who self-fund. The move to open-access publication may harm the publication business of many learned societies, large and small, to the detriment of their scholarly activities and thus cause their members disbenefit. The author believed that open access is a useful model whereby researchers, primarily in the sciences and predominantly in the Anglo-American publishing, can communicate their research results to their peers. He also accepted that self-archiving is one method of storing and allowing retrieval of published papers, or works in progress. In several disciplines and in many countries, electronic publishing of research papers whether in open-access formats or in subscription or other paid-on-publication models will not be desirable, convenient or effective.

Cites the different types of contributions preferred by the editors of the periodical "Kyklos". Papers that deal succinctly with a topical economic and/or social issue of interest to general readers; Papers that analyze a topic in an original way; Suggestion that papers dealing with specific issues for only one particular country are less desirable.

The article presents information on the future planning of the editorial team of the journal "Area." The kind of short, argument-led articles that are published by the journal provides an invaluable insight into the new frontiers of geographical knowledge. However, this task is not merely to evidence diversity. "Area," is beginning to play an important role in drawing environmental and human geography into deeper dialogue. In 2004, 27.3% of the published papers were in physical and environmental geography, in 2003 the figure was 26.5%.