The British Journal of Political Science (usually regarded as not quite a Tier I, but an excellent Tier II journal), is opening up its archives for free to anyone who wants to register (the anyone here including non-academics too, as best as I can tell).
Recently ranked one of the top four general political science journals in the world*, the British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2010.In order to celebrate this milestone, we would like to offer you FREE online access to the last five years of the British Journal of Political Science (BJPS).
Simply register with Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) and enter the code BJPSofferJan10, you will gain online access to the last five years (2005-2009) – all 20 issues – of BJPS.
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I was already registered with CJO. Where do you go to enter the code? Is it an account setting or some field on the BJPS page?
I don’t think this whole Tier I, Tier II thinking is particularly helpful. My most influential political science paper was published in the BJPS, and one reason we sent it there was because they had no problem with a long article that carefully considered alternative explanations. (We had 10 figures in the article, many with multiple graphs, and all were necessary to the story.)
I agree that the Tier I/Tier II thing makes no sense – but it is still socially important, especially for junior faculty seeking to get tenure. Journal ranking – in the absence of enough time to establish whether your work is widely cited and influential – serves as a very imperfect proxy for quality.
John – instructions for access are at http://sci.scientific-direct.net/c.asp?822653&f231d04e59b27de4&6 – but the deal isn’t as good, I don’t think.
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