Journals
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Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics
Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The journal publishes independently refereed research articles in the humanities. It promotes the perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial and post-developmental debates with special reference to (Southern) Africa. The journal is thereby in support of scholarly work that examines how the humanities in the twenty-first century respond to the double imperative of theorising the world and changing it. The journal appears twice a year and is published in English.
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Acta Structilia
Acta Structilia is a South African accredited journal publishing peer-reviewed articles across the physical and development sciences, including architecture, quantity surveying, construction management, project management, building economics, engineering, and property development.
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Acta Theologica
Acta Theologica is an internationally established peer-reviewed academic journal listed in various indices, including the Web of Science and SciELO South Africa. Hosted by the Faculty of Theology & Religion at the University of the Free State, the journal embraces both its rootedness in the African continent and the global public sphere of theological research. The publishing of innovative, interdisciplinary, and contextual theological knowledge with a significant edge is thus of the utmost importance. Only articles in English are published in the two regular editions in June and December. Occasional monographs or longer contributions are also published in a concurrent series of Supplementa.
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Communitas
Communitas is a peer‑reviewed, accredited academic journal that publishes original research in the field of communication studies, with particular emphasis on communication processes and practices relevant to developing and transitional societies, especially within Southern Africa. The journal disseminates theoretically informed and empirically grounded scholarship across areas including community and development communication, strategic and corporate communication, media studies, journalism, and related communication sub‑fields, with a focus on advancing scholarly understanding of communication phenomena at community, organisational, and societal levels.
Communitas is an open‑access journal. All published content is freely available without charge to readers or their institutions and may be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched, or linked to in full, without prior permission from the publisher or authors. This publishing model complies with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.
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Journal for Juridical Science
The Journal for Juridical Science is accredited by the Department of Higher Education (DHET) and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS). It is a national journal that publishes original research contributions in law in Afrikaans and English. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions, which bridge the gap between legal scholarship and other pertinent academic principles, are also welcomed.
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Journal for Translation Studies in Africa
JTSA promotes the scholarly study of translational phenomena in the widest sense of the word, including intralingual, interlingual and intersemiotic translation, and values interpreting and translation equally. It welcomes interdisciplinary research, including but not limited to interpreting studies, multimodality and multimedia studies, development studies, media studies, cultural studies, political science, sociology and history. Contributions can be theoretical, empirical or applied.
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Perspectives in Education
Perspectives in Education (PiE) is a fully open access journal, which means that all articles are freely available on the internet immediately upon publication. PiE is also a professional, peer-reviewed journal that encourages the submission of previously unpublished articles on contemporary educational issues. As a journal that represents a variety of cross-disciplinary interests, both theoretical and practical, it seeks to stimulate debate on a wide range of topics. PiE invites manuscripts employing innovative qualitative and quantitative methods and approaches including (but not limited to), ethnographic observation and interviewing, grounded theory, life history, case study, curriculum analysis and critique, policy studies, ethno-methodology, social and educational critique, phenomenology, deconstruction, and genealogy.
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Southern Journal for Contemporary History
The Southern Journal for Contemporary History is published by the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State. It is a national, academic and accredited journal that publishes academically outstanding articles of a contemporary historical or political nature. Only articles dealing with topics on sub-Saharan Africa and in particular South Africa will be considered.
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Town and Regional Planning
Town and Regional Planning is a South African accredited journal for independently adjudicated research articles on applicable topics in town, urban and regional planning.
