Special Collection Details

updated on 06 Jul 2008

Journal Title:	Demographic Research, Special Collection Volumes
ISSN:	1435-9871
URL:	http://www.demographic-research.org/
Brief description:	Demographic Research is an international, open access, online journal publishing research articles after full peer review. All journal articles are published immediately upon acceptance and made freely available. Occasionally, conference or festschrift volumes are published by Demographic Research. For these special collections, the Demographic Research editorial office sends all content through full peer-review and then additionally coordinates the papers for publication in a Special Collection. These collections of papers are assigned "supplemental volume" numbers: S1, S2, etc.
Cost:	Free-of-charge
Copyright:	Held by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany
Subjects:	Demography – Periodical Supplements; Population research – Periodical Supplements
Publisher:	Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) Joshua R. Goldstein, Director of MPIDR, is the publisher.
Editor:	Nico Keilman is the editor.
Volumes:	The following Special Collection volumes have been published: Vol. S1 was published on 19 September 2003 Vol. S2 was published on 16 April 2004 Vol. S3 was published on 17 April 2004 Vol. S4 was published on 17 November 2005 Vol. S5 was published on 18 December 2007 Vol. S6 was published on 20 December 2007 Vol. S7 was published on 01 July 2008
Issue Numbers:	There are no issue numbers associated with Demographic Research Special Collection volumes.
Article ID:	Each article in the first three Demographic Research Special Collections was assigned an alpha-numeric article ID number. The number of articles published in each volume is listed below. Vol. S1 (Article ID numbers: S1-1 through S1-13) Vol. S2 (Article ID numbers: S2-1 through S2-14) Vol. S3 (Article ID numbers: S3-1 through S3-11) Starting with Special Collection 4 in 2005 the articles were assigned a running volume and article number keeping with standard convention. Thus material from Special Collection 4 and onwards is listed both under a special collection heading as well as in the volume in which it was first published. To date 100 special collection articles have been published in Special Collection volumes.
Page Numbers:	Page numbers have been used in all special collection volumes starting with Volume S1.
E-mail Alert service:	An e-mail is sent to readers who register to be notified when new articles are published.
Archiving and Availability:	All volumes are archived and available on the journal’s website at all times. Volumes are also available through an Internet Publish-On-Demand service on a cost basis.
Postal address:	Demographic Research Editorial Office Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Konrad-Zuse-Strasse 1 18057 Rostock Germany
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Index Services:	Demographic Research Special Collection/supplemental volume articles are available through the following services: ISI Web of Science ISI Social Sciences Citation Index Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Scopus (a web-based Elsevier service) Google Scholar RePEc Sociological Abstracts www.history-journals.de (a social sciences service) POPLINE PubMed To search for Demographic Research in the ISI Web of Science in order to check the citation record of particular articles, use the following abbreviations for the journal: DEMOGRAPHIC RES and also DEMOGR RES and DEMOG RES. It is best to simply search by using wildcards: DEMOG* RES*

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