At Unisa Press we publish peer-reviewed academic journals covering the following subjects: Language, Literature, History, Politics, Education, Law, Theology, Philosophy, Folklore, Information Science, Communication Studies, Psychology, Social Work, Health Studies, Nursing, Economic and Management Sciences, Employee Relations and Nanosciences.

Journals

  • Africa Education Review

    T&F Open Select (Hybrid Open Access)

    Africa Education Review is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that seeks the submission of unpublished articles on current educational issues. It encourages debate on theory, policy and practice on a wide range of topics that represent a variety of disciplines, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and transdisciplinary interests on international and global scale. The journal therefore welcomes contributions from associated disciplines including sociology, psychology and economics. Africa Education Review is interested in stimulating scholarly and intellectual debate on education in general, and higher education in particular on a global arena. What is of particular interest to the journal are manuscripts that seek to contribute to the challenges and issues facing primary and secondary in general, and higher education on the African continent and in the global contexts in particular. The journal welcomes contributions based on sound theoretical framework relating to policy issues and practice on the various aspects of higher education.

    The journal is co-published by Taylor & Francis and can be accessed from https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/raer

  • African Historical Review

    T&F Open Select (Hybrid Open Access)

    The African Historical Review (formerly Kleio: A Journal of Historical Studies from Africa) is an accredited, peer-reviewed journal with a long and distinguished history. Originally conceived as a research and teaching forum for histories taught in the Department of History at the University of South Africa and to promote the work of students and staff, the journal is now an international publication for high quality articles on a wide variety of historical subjects.

    The journal is co-published by Taylor & Francis and can be accessed from https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahr20/current.

    This platform is used for submission and peer-review purposes only.

  • Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery

    Hybrid Open Access

    The journal publishes articles on current nursing and health related issues, and encourages those that exhibit innovative and quantitative research methods and approaches. It promotes debate, both theoretical and practical, on a wide range of topics and cross-disciplinary interests.

  • African Journal of Employee Relations

    Hybrid Open Access

    Formerly the South African Journal of Labour Relations, the African Journal of Employee Relations is a scientific research journal published by the School of Management Sciences and the Graduate School of Business Leadership of the University of South Africa. The journal publishes research in the field of employment relations.

  • Africanus: Journal of Development Studies

    Discontinued as of 2021

    Published by the Department of Development Administration, University of South Africa.
    Articles on development problems with special reference to the Third World and southern Africa as well as politics and policy concerning intergroup relations.

  • Communicatio

    T&F Open Select (Hybrid Open Access)

    Communicatio focuses on and seeks to publish original research articles of the highest standard and of special interest on South African and African communication contexts in the fields of:

    • communication theory and philosophy

    • media and cultural studies

    • organisational and management communication

    • visual communication

    • intercultural communication

    • advertising and marketing

    • developmental communication

    • political communication

    • new media (policy and social implications)

    • international communication.

    All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and should adhere to the journal's instructions for authors.

    The journal is co-published by Taylor & Francis and can be accessed from https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcsa

     

  • Commonwealth Youth and Development

    Hybrid Open Access

    Commonwealth Youth and Development is a multidisciplinary biannual publication that seeks to promote understanding of, and impetus for, the empowerment of the youth which will enable them to play a crucial and constructive role in the development of their communities. It recognises the importance of the youth and youth workers in developing countries and seeks to promote the professionalisation of youth work.

    Accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training of South Africa

  • Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa

    Hybrid Open Access

    Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa (CILSA) is devoted to comparative and international law, with particular reference to the Southern African context. The journal is accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training of South Africa.

  • de arte

    T&F Open Select (Hybrid Open Access)

    de arte is an international peer-reviewed journal offering a distinctive, integrated forum for original research in the visual arts, art history, art criticism, visual culture and related disciplines. The primary focus is on South Africa, Africa and the Global South, where arts and culture have had an instrumental role in forging identities and post-colonial realities. The journal aims to be representative of a variety of viewpoints and emphasises an interdisciplinary approach, cognisant of the value of a dynamic interface between the visual arts and other fields including philosophy, politics, history, religion, and literature. It further seeks to provide a platform for under-represented African visual arts and art criticism on the global stage.

    In addition to original scholarly research, de arte invites critical reviews of books focused on the above-mentioned scope. We welcome contributions from established and emerging scholars, and we are open to proposals for Themed Issues guest edited by leading scholars in relevant fields.

    The journal is co-published by Taylor & Francis and can be accessed from https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rdat

  • Education as Change

    Open Access

    Education as Change is an internationally accredited, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes original articles reflecting critically on issues of equality in education and on the ways in which educational practices contribute to transformation in non-formal, formal and informal contexts.

  • Early Christian History

    T&F Open Select (Hybrid Open Access)

    The Journal of Early Christian History aims to contribute to scholarship in early Christian and Byzantine studies by publishing high quality research articles, review articles and book reviews. The journal aspires to approach the field of early Christian and Byzantine studies from new perspectives, welcoming studies incorporating various methodologies, contextual trajectories and interdisciplinary research. The journal especially wishes to promote research in these fields within a South African and wider African context, but not neglecting the international scholarly community. It therefore publishes individually submitted articles, articles resulting from research projects and also conference proceedings. Articles and reviews from the following disciplines are covered by the scope of the journal: New Testament Studies; Patristics and Late Ancient Studies; Byzantine Studies. Although these disciplines form the crux of research covered by the journal, studies from other relevant fields such as the Old Testament and Septuagint, Classics and Religion would also be considered for publication.

    The journal is co-published by Taylor & Francis and can be accessed from https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rech

  • English Academy Review

    T&F Open Select (Hybrid Open Access)

    The English Academy Review: Journal of English Studies (EAR) is a leading scholarly journal accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and indexed internationally by IBSS, SCOPUS and Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index. It seeks to promote research and debate in effective English as a vital national resource while  respecting Africa’s diverse linguistic ecology.  It includes articles  on  language as well as educational, philosophical and literary topics from across the globe, which have been double blind peer reviewed.   The journal also includes creative writing  (poetry and short stories) as well as  book reviews of significant new publications. The annual  lectures and proceedings of the English Academy of Southern Africa, founded in 1961, are also published in the journal.

    The journal is co-published by Taylor & Francis and can be accessed from https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/racr20.

    This platform is used for submission and peer-review purposes only.

  • English Usage in Southern Africa

    Continued as Language Matters

    English Usage in Southern Africa (active from 1970–1992) published observations on the usage and misusage of the English language in Southern Africa. It is continued by Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, which can be accessed from https://www.tandfonline.com/rlms20

    Volumes 22 and 23 can be accessed from https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rlms19 

    The word lists in volumes 1–4 were collated and published as A Dictionary of English Usage in Southern Africa, edited by D. R. Beeton and Helen Dorner (Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1975). 

  • Gender Questions

    Hybrid Open Access

    Gender Questions is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed research journal that publishes high quality articles on all aspects of gender studies, including feminist research, masculinity studies and studies into alternative sexualities. Gender Questions seeks to contribute to South African knowledge production about gender by providing a forum for serious scholarship and rigorous theoretical engagement with Gender Studies.

  • Imbizo

    Hybrid Open Access

    Imbizo : International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies is a scholarly and peer-reviewed journal of the department of English studies at the University of South Africa. The journal aims to foster critical debates on African Literary Theory, cultural studies, history and popular culture. The journal publishes original research articles, review articles and important conference proceedings on theoretical and practical perspectives that expand knowledge on discourses on the Africanisation of the processes of Africa's literary creations.

  • International Journal of African Renaissance Studies

    T&F Open Select (Hybrid Open Access)

    International Journal of African Renaissance Studies (IJARS) is a forum for scholarship on the challenges facing Africa today and seeks to promote research, policy analyses and teaching that locate African people at the centre of the development agenda. The journal covers multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches in examining the African Renaissance and the repositioning of Africa within the world system. It is committed to producing and using knowledge to empower and strengthen Africa, its people and its Diaspora.

    Articles published in IJARS cover a broad range of socio-political and natural sciences, the humanities and other disciplines and topics including capacity building, conflict, development, ecology, economics, education, gender, governance, health, identity, land reform, language, law, leadership, politics and social policy. In geographical terms, the journal covers both the African continent and the Diaspora.

    IJARS publishes academic research articles, essays, editorials, notes and book reviews. It also has two special sections, Imbizo and The Record, publishing additional documents of importance, such as speeches, lectures and peace accords.

    IJARS is accredited with the South African Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) in South Africa and with the International Bibliography for Social Sciences (IBSS).

    The journal is co-published by Taylor & Francis and can be accessed from https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rars

  • International Journal of Educational Development in Africa

    Open Access

    IJEDA is an open access journal which is committed to providing a critical forum for forward-thinking African-centric authors who approach education and development as pathways towards societies free of systemic oppression. With an explicit focus on clarifying, expanding, and implementing decolonial agendas that recognize, support, and expand African sustainabilities, IJEDA encourages healing approaches to conceptual, empirical, and applied education-focused scholarship. As a departure from western-oriented approaches, IJEDA welcomes a variety of scholarly approaches that conceptualise and theorise, illustrate concrete practise, and/or engage in research endeavours that have an explicit justice orientation. 

     

  • Journal for Islamic Studies

    Hybrid Open Access

    The Journal for Islamic Studies is a peer-reviewed journal committed to the publication of original research on Islam as culture and civilization. It particularly welcomes work of an interdisciplinary nature that brings together history, religion, politics, culture and law. The Journal has a special focus on Islam in Africa, and on contemporary Islamic Thought. Contributions that display theoretical rigour, especially work that link the particularities of Islamic discourse to the enterprise of knowledge and critique in the humanities and social sciences, will find JIS to be receptive to such submissions.

  • Journal for Semitics

    Hybrid Open Access

    The Journal for Semitics is published by the Southern African Society for Near Eastern Studies (SASNES). The journal is published twice annually. Journal for Semitics is accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training.

  • Journal of Law, Society and Development

    Hybrid Open Access

    JLSD seeks to address various socio-economic, legal and political research issues, such as democracy and society, to find its proper niche and its feet in order to help the community it serves to understand these issues. It also aims to forge a path towards inclusive epistemological discussions and debate in South Africa and the world at large. Therefore, articles that resort in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the exact sciences or political science and which are relevent to the theme of law, society and development are invited for inclusion.

    The journal is accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training.

  • Journal of Literary Studies

    Open Access

    The Journal of Literary Studies/Tydskrif vir Literatuurwetenskap publishes and globally disseminates original and cutting-edge research informed by Literary and Cultural Theory. The Journal is an independent yearly publication owned and published by the Literature Association of South Africa in partnership with Unisa Press. The journal publishes articles and full-length review essays on literature and comparative literature informed by General Literary Theory, Genre Studies, and Critical Theory.

  • Language Matters

    T&F Open Select (Hybrid Open Access)

    The purpose of Language Matters is to provide a journal of international standing with a unique African flavour focusing on multilingualism in Africa. Although the journal contributes to the language debate on all African languages, sub-Saharan Africa and issues related to multilingualism in the southern African context are the journal’s specific domains. The journal seeks to promote the dissemination of ideas, points of view, teaching strategies and research on different aspects of African languages, providing a forum for discussion on the whole spectrum of language usage and debate in Africa. The journal endorses a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and welcomes contributions not only from sociolinguists, psycholinguists and the like, but also from educationalists, language practitioners, computer analysts, engineers or scholars with a genuine interest in and contribution to the study of language. All contributions are critically reviewed by at least two referees.

    Although the general focus remains on multilingualism and related issues, one of the three issues of Language Matters published each year is a special thematic edition on Language Politics in Africa. These special issues embrace a wide spectrum of language matters of current relevance in Southern Africa.

    This journal is accredited with the South African Department of Higher Education and Training and is also listed on the Social Sciences Citation Index as well as the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI).

    The journal is co-published by Taylor & Francis and can be accessed from https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rlms

  • Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies

    Hybrid Open Access

    General and research articles on Library and Information Science are published in this journal. It also contains bibliographical information relevant to postgraduate research in South Africa.

  • Muziki

    T&F Open Select (Hybrid Open Access)

    Focused primarily on African music research, Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa welcomes scholarly articles and reviews of books, music, and recordings related to musical theory and practice of the African continent and beyond. We aim to provide a platform for established and emerging scholars in the fields of performance practice, ethnomusicology, and ‘traditional’ musicology as well as jazz and popular music studies encompassing diverse aspects of local, diasporic, and global research.

    Muziki succeeded the long-established Ars Nova journal of the Musicology Department at the University of South Africa in 2004. The journal is accredited by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training and employs a rigorous double-blind peer review process for all submissions.

    The journal is co-published by Taylor & Francis and can be accessed from https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rmuz

  • Latin American Report

    Discontinued as of 2021

    An interdisciplinary journal of research and commentary relating to Latin America. Its purpose is to promote scholarly understanding of and general information about that Continent. It features research articles, commentaries, interviews, news and information, reports and book reviews.

  • Nano-Horizons: Journal of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies

    Open Access

    The Nano-Horizons journal is intended to be the voice of the African nano-community in this fast-rising multidisciplinary field at the interface of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, Materials science, Computation & modelling. The focus is the multidisciplinary field of Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies. 

  • New Voices in Psychology

    Open Access

    New Voices in Psychology aims to encourage the publication of cutting-edge research and innovative practical ideas in the disciplines of Psychology, Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences. Submissions are accepted from all over the world. 

  • Oral History Journal of South Africa

    Discontinued by Unisa Press

    OHJSA creates space for academics in collaboration with oral history practioners, archivists and librarians to publish scientific papers in the field of oral history. The focus of the journal is on the methods of oral history research as well as the results or oral history research done in and on southern Africa expanding to the rest of Africa and eventually to the rest of the world.

  • Phronimon

    Open Access

    Phronimon publishes original scientifically justifiable contributions (articles, discussions of articles previously published and book reviews) within the field of Philosophy and the Humanities.

  • Politeia

    Hybrid Open Access

    Published by the Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration, University of South Africa.
    Articles on political science, public administration, municipal government and administration, international politics and strategic studies. The journal offers the reader the opportunity to gain insight into aspects of public life in a time of unprecedented political change.

  • Progressio

    Open Access

    Progressio is a peer-reviewed, open access, scholarly journal that provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners in teaching and learning, particularly in higher education, in the areas of open, distance and e-learning; online learning; digital technology; and flexible education to publish their articles. The journal is read by researchers, leaders, managers, policy makers and practitioners in specialist distance education institutions, as well as those using flexible learning and digital educational technologies in conventional contact institutions. Progressio is accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training.

     

  • scrutiny2

    T&F Open Select (Hybrid Open Access)

    scrutiny2  is a double blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes original manuscripts on theoretical and practical concerns in English literary studies in southern Africa, particularly tertiary education. Uniquely southern African approaches to southern African concerns are sought, although manuscripts of a more general nature will be considered. The journal is aimed at an audience of specialists in English literary studies. While the dominant form of manuscripts published will be the scholarly article, the journal will also publish poetry, as well as other forms of writing such as the essay, review essay, conference report and polemical position piece.

    This journal is accredited with Scopus and the South African Department of Higher Education and Training.

    The journal is co-published by Taylor & Francis and can be accessed from https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rscr

  • Social and Health Sciences

    Hybrid Open Access

    Social and Health Sciences (formerly the African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention) is a multidisciplinary forum for critical discussion and debate among scholars, practitioners, activists, students and policy-makers whose interests and work intersect with the social and health sciences. The journal welcomes theoretical, empirical, applied and policy submissions on such topics as: violence in its multiple forms, injury, health and safety promotion, community engagement, epidemiology, health economics, health systems research, structural and social determinants of health, and knowledge production in the social and health sciences.

  • Southern African Business Review

    Open Access

    The Southern African Business Review is a refereed and scientific research journal of the College of Economic and Management Sciences of the University of South Africa. It aims to promote topical research that are grounded on contemporary scientific methods. The journal focusses on a wide range of themes in the filed of Economic and Management Sciences. 

  • Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies

    Hybrid Open Access

    Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies publishes original scientific articles pertaining to folklore studies and research. Research articles, theoretical papers, critical reviews and case studies will be considered for publication.

  • Southern African Journal of Security

    Open Access

    The journal publishes peer reviewed articles and papers that report on and analyse the latest research and innovation in the field of security studies. It seeks to address broader societal issues of importance to law, safety and security of citizens and criminal justice-related topics. It pursues articles that define and reflect the various aspects of security and encourages researchers to generate innovative contributions to the knowledge economy in a scientific way. It also publishes reviews and commentaries on significant books or current issues and cover informative aspects like editorials, topical reviews, book reviews, and scholarly correspondence.

  • Southern African Public Law

    Hybrid Open Access

    Southern African Public Law (SAPL) is an accredited, blind peer-reviewed journal published bi-annually. It aims to stimulate debate on public law issues and provides a forum for discussion and critical reflection on a wide range of public law issues, from the theory and practice of human rights to constitutional and administrative law, environmental law, regional governance and land reform. It publishes articles in the fields of constitutional and administrative law, human rights, constitutional and statutory interpretation, public international law, legal and constitutional theory, environmental law, local government law and closely related fields. Southern African Public Lawaims to provide space for scholars and intellectuals from the Southern African region in particular, and the African continent in general, to reflect on public law issues.

  • Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development

    Hybrid Open Access

    Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, formerly The Social Work Practitioner-Researcher, is a refereed interdisciplinary journal for social workers and social service professionals concerned with the advancement of the theory and practice of social work and social development in Africa and in a changing global world. 

  • South African Yearbook of International Law

    Hybrid Open Access

    The South African Yearbook of International Law (SAYIL) is an annual publication, published by Unisa Press and administered by Unisa's Department of Public, Constitutional and International Law.

    SAYIL is accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training of South Africa.

  • Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae

    Open Access

    Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae is the journal of the Church History Society of Southern Africa. It publishes articles in the discipline of Church History/History of Christianity with an African/South African perspective. The journal publishes three issues per year in May, September and December.

  • Trictrac

    Discontinued as of 2018

    Journal of World Mythology and Folklore.