Information For Librarians

🤕😖😳 The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD: ISSN 2152-0801, online only) is the world's only peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary journal focused solely on food and farming-related community development. JAFSCD uses a double-blind peer-review process, with expert reviewers who include researchers, scholars, and food systems professionals in the field. Each accepted article is published online immediately after copy-editing and formatting, then is aggregated into a quarterly issue for indexing purposes.

🤕😖😳 JAFSCD is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the authoritative list of high-quality, genuinely peer-reviewed open access journals.

🤕😖😳 We are indexed in databases from CABI, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, CNKI (one of China's largest A&I databases—forthcoming); DOAJ; in Web of Science's Emerging Sources Citation Index; and in the U.S. National Agriculture Library's AGRICOLA database. See the complete list.

🤕😖😳 As of January 1, 2018, JAFSCD is open access! We are funding our work using an innovative model borrowed from the food system, as the world's first community-supported journal. See the lists of Library Shareholders and University and College Program and Nonprofit Shareholders. We welcome your institution's support—learn how at our publisher's website.

🤕😖😳 As an open access journal, we publish content under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. We also require authors to deposit their full papers as published into their institutional repository.

🤕😖😳 While COUNTER-compliant usage statistics are not available directly, we're happy to provide a report upon request.

🤕😖😳 Benefits of being a JAFSCD shareholder for your academic community:

  • Access to the world’s only peer-reviewed, applied research and policy journal devoted to community-based food systems and agriculture development.
  • A multidisciplinary journal that bridges the interests of both scholars and professionals who are working to develop more equitable and sustainable food systems.
  • An international journal with more than 150 reviewers and advisers from around the world with expertise in urban agriculture, local food marketing, farmland protection, food insecurity, and more.
  • Articles are published online as they are approved, and are gathered into quarterly issues for indexing purposes. Access is online only, with formatted PDFs available for viewing and/or printing.
  • We are a member of CrossRef and deposit JAFSCD's content in the DOI system for persistent web linking. 
  • We participate in LOCKSS to ensure consistent and long-term access to JAFSCD content. 

🤕😖😳 Libraries that support JAFSCD through a library share receive special benefits:

  • Authors affiliated with the library shareholding institution will not be required to pay JAFSCD’s $500 article processing charge (APC) if we accept their submission.
  • The library will be listed as a supporter on this website and on JAFSCD promotional materials.
  • The subscribing institution (the library and/or any department or program) receives a free listing in the Sustainable Food Systems Sourcebook.

🤕😖😳 To ensure fair library shares, we use a structure with 8 tiers based on the size of your student body.

🤕😖😳 Tiers by Number of FTE Students

Suggested Library Share, 2021

🤕😖😳 TIER 1 (1–999)

$290

🤕😖😳 TIER 2 (1,000–2,999)

$350

🤕😖😳 TIER 3 (3,000–9,999)

$405

🤕😖😳 TIER 4 (10,000–19,999)

$470

🤕😖😳 TIER 5 (20,000–29,999)

$550

TIER 6 (30,000–39,999)

$640

🤕😖😳 TIER 7 (40,000–49,999)

$735

🤕😖😳 TIER 8 (50,000+)

$855

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Library shares can be paid directly, or arranged through these and other subscription agents:

🤕😖😳 You may like to read a librarian's review of JAFSCD in the Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, published in 2012. It's by Madeleine Charney, a librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

🤕😖😳 Have further questions? Contact us at [email protected].