About the Journal
Upsurge is a cross-institutional, open-access, blind-reviewed academic journal for university students writing in political economy and related fields. We publish research outputs as well as letters, perspectives, proceedings from seminars, talks and public lectures, book reviews and literature reviews. We accept submissions on a rolling basis for immediate online publication and collation in a regular print schedule.
Authors do not need to be studying political economy, though only submissions in adjacent fields will be considered, including—
- economic sociology and anthropology,
- intersections of political economy with other fields,
- heterodox economics,
- history of economics/economic history,
- politics and political philosophy,
- international relations.
Upsurge is open access, what does that mean?
Open access means that the scholarly work published by this journal is not paywalled or restricted. Specifically, we use an open licence (CC BY 4.0) to grant usage rights to published articles. Moreover, authors do not incur any article processing charges (APCs) by submitting their manuscript. There are no embargo periods, and there is no need to register to view content on this site.
APESA is a member of the Copyright Agency and authors will be compensated for their article's inclusion in libraries and full text subscriber databases such as Informit, EBSCO and Proquest.
We encourage readers to sign up for the publishing notification service via Sydney Open Journals. Use the Register link at the top of the home page for the journal. You will receieve the Table of Contents by email for each new issue of the journal. This list also allows the Journal to claim a certain level of support or readership. See our Privacy Policy, which assures readers that their name and email address will not be used for other purposes.
Interested in submitting to this Journal?
We recommend that you review the Submissions page for the Journal's section policies and author guidelines. Authors need to register with the Journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the easy upload process.
Information for librarians
We encourage research librarians to list this journal among their library's electronic journal holdings. As well, it may be worth noting that this journal's open source publishing system is suitable for libraries to host for their faculty members to use with journals they are involved in editing (see Open Journal Systems).