The ''Jamaica Journal'' is a
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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published by the
Institute of Jamaica
The Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), founded in 1879, is the country's most significant cultural, artistic and scientific organisation:[Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispan ...]
.
Its predecessor was the ''Journal of the Institute of Jamaica'', established in 1896. In 1967, the ''Jamaica Journal'' was established as a quarterly journal, "to reflect the Institute's interest in the development and promotion of Jamaica's history, literature, science and arts". In 2002, the journal temporarily ceased publication; it was relaunched in 2004 under a new
editor-in-chief
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,
Kim Robinson-Walcott.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
America: History and Life,
Historical Abstracts
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
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, and the
Modern Language Association Database.
References
External links
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Digital Library of the Caribbean
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Caribbean studies journals
Publications established in 1896
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Works about Jamaica
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