Canadian Slavonic Papers

• 1. Introduction

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  Canadian Slavonic Papers carries a second name printed right alongside the first: Revue canadienne des slavistes. That double title is not decorative. It is the first clue to understanding a journal built to serve two language communities and one broad geographic mandate at once. Behind the pages sits a national scholarly association, a co-editing team, and an international commercial publisher, three parties in one publication. Who actually edits it? Which countries and regions fall inside its purview? And once an article is published, where in the wider scholarly world can it actually be found?

• 2. Scope And Stewardship

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  The journal's declared territory runs from central and eastern Europe through Russia into central Asia and the Caucasus, a wide sweep for one publication. Its approach is interdisciplinary as well as peer-reviewed. A single issue can draw on more than one academic discipline rather than staying inside one field.

  The Canadian Association of Slavists claims Canadian Slavonic Papers as its official journal. Day-to-day publishing runs through Taylor & Francis, a commercial academic press acting on the association's behalf. Rolf Hellebust and James Krapfl serve as co-editors, and contributors may write in English or French, mirroring the journal's own two-language title. None of that editorial structure explains how a reader outside Canada actually locates an issue once it is printed.

• 3. Indexed Worldwide

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  Scopus is one of eight abstracting and indexing services that catalog Canadian Slavonic Papers. EBSCO databases and ProQuest databases carry its record as well.

  The Emerging Sources Citation Index and FRANCIS list it too, alongside two subject-specific bibliographies. The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences and the Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique both track its output. A further entry in the MLA International Bibliography completes the roster of eight. A listing in the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences means the journal's regional scholarship reaches readers well outside Slavic studies alone.