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Policy Perspectives, Disability & Workers Justice
Read new research from Policy Perspectives, Journal of Disability and Social Justice, and Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice is now on the Emerging Sources Citation Index. Fantastic achievement for a journal launched in 2021!
African Journals Initiative- New Issue Out!
At the African Journals Initiative, we reinforce our commitment to internationalising African social science and humanities journals. Last year we onboarded six journals from Somaliland, Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi, and Tanzania. View journals here.
Conviviality & Critical Diversity, the cost of war & if AI has politics?
As we all embark on a new year, our journals continue to bring together diverse perspectives on some of the most pressing questions of our time, from conflict and the legacies of colonialism to the rise of populism and the impact of AI.
Open Journals Collective. The Future is Diamond
We have some exciting news to share: Pluto Journals is now a member of the Open Journals Collective (OJC), which launches in January 2026. It’s an exciting step towards a brighter future for diamond open access which aims to challenge profit driven models of global corporate publishing.
African Journals Initiative, Ibadan Journal of Sociology
As part of the African Journals Initiative pilot programme we are thrilled to announce the release of a new issue of Ibadan Journal of Sociology (IJS), an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles from sociology, anthropology and other related disciplines.
Disability Accessibility, Fair Trade and Solidarity.
As the term ends and the holidays begin, we have some treats for you from the latest issues of International Journal of Disability and Social Justice, Journal of Fair Trade and our African Journals Initiative.
All of our journals are Diamond Open Access on ScienceOpen and JSTOR.
Inequality, International Law & Decolonial Resistance
In this Pluto Journals November newsletter we’re highlighting articles from the latest World Review of Political Economy and Arab Studies Quarterly. We also have updates from the African Journals Initiative on its latest publication from Zamani. All articles are Diamond Open Access.
African Journals Initiative, Tanzania & Open Access
We start with a short piece from Dr Jama Musse Jama, Editor of Dhaxalreeb at the Somaliland Centre for African Studies, exploring this year’s International Open Access Week theme, “Who owns our knowledge?”, and considers “Why (Diamond) Open Access in the Global South?”
Challenging Oligopolistic Knowledge Systems
This article has been written to celebrate this year’s International Open Access Week (October 2025). The author is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Fair Trade, a Diamond Open Access publication started in 2018 as a response to the debate, division and argument
Why (Diamond) Open Access in the Global South?
While Open Access (OA) has made significant progress in increasing access to knowledge, it is not a lasting solution to the systemic inequalities and the structural imbalance in knowledge access, production, and sharing, particularly for scholars in the Global South (GS).
Knowledge is not Data, Stuart Macdonald
‘Who Owns Our Knowledge’ hardly matters if our knowledge has little value. Knowledge is received information and information is not like other goods. Information can be bought and sold, but not easily: it is hard to disclose what is for sale without giving it away in the process.
State Crime, Islamophobia & Indentureship Reflections
In the latest issue of State Crime Journal, Volume 14, issue 1, Hedi Viterbo’s article “Entangled Others: Intergroup Connectivity in Racialization—Israel/Palestine and Beyond” introduces a typology of four intergroup connections and examines how the othering and racialisation of one group
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