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| Language | English |
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| Publication details | |
| History | 2019-Present |
| Publisher | Berlin Universities Publishing |
| ISO 4 | Find out here |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 2940-5181 |
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The February Journal is an interdisciplinary academic journal that is peer-reviewed and available in diamond open access. It is published by Berlin Universities Publishing[1] 1 and indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
Aims & Scope
[edit]The February Journal presents empirical, theoretical, and speculative research that uses decentering, queer, feminist, decolonial, and autotheoretical methodologies to address urgent cultural, social, and political questions. The journal understands knowledge holistically and seeks to integrate research-driven artistic and activist work into academic practice. Welcoming work by professionals of all career levels, it puts special effort into helping less experienced authors publish their research. The journal also embraces work in a variety of genres, celebrating innovative ways of presentation. It is a venue for scholars and students of humanities and social sciences, visual arts, and crossovers from the natural sciences.[2]
History
[edit]The February Journal was founded in 2022 by Katerina Suverina, Ana Panduri (pseudonym), and Andrei Zavadski, who are now part of its editorial team[3] (structured non-hierarchically).
The journal has its roots in another open-access publication, The Garage Journal: Studies in Art, Museums & Culture,[4] which was founded in 2019 by Vlad Strukov, Katerina Suverina, Ana Panduri (pseudonym), Yuri Yurkin, and Andrei Zavadski. Aimed at an international academic audience, the journal was based at and supported by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia. It sought to advance critical discussions about contemporary art, culture, and museum practice in the Russian and global contexts. With the beginning of the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent introduction of wartime censorship in Russia, the Garage Museum shut the journal down.
The rights to its archive and platform, however, were transferred to the journal’s former team, part of which used the existing platform to launch a new independent Berlin-based publication: The February Journal.
Its name underlining the caesura of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the journal aims to support professional development and visibility of researchers whose experience can be defined using at least one of the following categories: “displaced person,” “queer person,” and “person from the Global South,” with priority given to professionals who do not have institutional support and early career researchers.
Berlin Universities Publishing
[edit]In 2024, The February Journal became part of Berlin Universities Publishing, an open access non-commercial publisher funded by the Berlin University Alliance and supported jointly by the libraries of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
Language Policy
[edit]The February Journal has a long-term objective of publishing all submissions in the original language plus their translation into English. At the moment, however, all articles are published in English (with the exception of The Garage Journal’s archive, which is partly in Russian).
The Garage Journal’s Archive
[edit]The archive of The Garage Journal is openly available on the website of The February Journal.
Indexing
[edit]Started in 2025, articles published in The February Journal are indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “The February Journal.” Berlin Universities Publishing. 2025 - via Berlin Universities Publishing.
- ^ “About.” The February Journal. 2025 - via The February Journal.
- ^ “Editorial Team.” The February Journal. 2025 - via The February Journal.
- ^ “The Garage Journal: Studies in Art, Museums & Culture.” The February Journal. 2025 - via The February Journal.