Rural Society

Journal of research into rural and regional social issues

Rural Society cover Accessible to a broad readership, Rural Society (ISSN 1037-1656) is an international, peer reviewed academic journal from eContent which focuses on rural public policy, health care, social issues, educational, welfare, gender, diversity, counselling, management, culture, life style, sustainability, arts, commercial, local, regional and federal government research in rural communities.

Under the editorship of Dr Darryl Maybery, Associate Professor of Rural Mental Health, Monash University, Department of Rural and Indigenous Health, PO Box 973, Moe, VIC 3825, Australia, Rural Society publishes in four issues (volume 19/1-4) in 2009.

Full text of volumes 8 to 19 will be available online to institutional subscribers.

Now in its 19^th volume, under the auspices of the Community of Rural Social Researchers (CRSR) at the Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS), Rural Society has published in association with Charles Sturt University since 1991.

Topics in Rural Society have included • rural policy • rural media • small town development • rural gender issues • health care • social work • social capital • rural women • human services • ICT • arts • culture • governance • agricultural restructuring • food policy • heritage • tourism • youth • ageing • water policy.

Articles are relevant to researchers, teachers, students, policy developers, managers, decision makers, health care workers interested in social, cultural, health, education and developmental issues in emerging and mature regional economies.

Rural Society publishes original research and practice articles, literature reviews, special issues, case studies, symposia, commentaries, special issues, reports and book reviews in two general issues and two special issues per annum - in 2009:

Sea Changes, Tree Changes and Bush Lessons: Post-compulsory education and rural renewal (volume 19/3, September 2009)
Guest Edited by Geoff Danaher (Central Queensland University), Roberta Harreveld (Central Queensland University) and Patrick Alan Danaher (University of Southern Queensland)
Rural Mental Health (volume 19/4, December 2009)*
Edited by Darryl Maybery (Charles Sturt University) and Grace Brown (La Trobe University)

*Published in association with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)

Mental health presents some big issues for many rural and regional centres,
not the least due to lack of resources and services,
and the degree of other disadvantage that is present.
Bob Lonne, BSocWk, PhD
National President of Australian Association of Social Workers
Professor of Social Work, Queensland University of Technology

Special issues are also released as books with their own ISBN for use as course readers or separate sale to non-subscribers. Evaluation copies of all special issues are available to Course Coordinators from the publisher at: subscriptions@e-contentmanagement.com

Rural sociologists, educators, anthropologists, cultural studies, health care, social work, psychologists, counsellors, nurse and medical researchers, developmental economists, public policy and management researchers are invited to contact the Editor in Chief with proposals for special issues. Proposals should be of international appeal and grounded in relevant rural literature. Special issue proposal guidelines are available from the publisher: info@e-contentmanagement.com.

Contributors to regular issues should follow the journal Author Guidelines.

ABSTRACTING & INDEXING

Rural Society (ISSN 1037-1656) is abstracted, indexed and aggregated in:

ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
PsycINFO - American Psychological Association
Scopus - Elsevier Science Publishers
International Bibliography of Social Sciences - London School of Economics
APAIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service
Family & Society Plus - Informit
e-Library - Informit
EBSCO Publishing
Cengage
ProQuest

The journal is under consideration for indexing in Thomson Reuters SSCI.

Rural Society (ISSN 1037-1656) is listed in Cabell's and Ulrich's Periodicals Directories and the Commonwealth DEST register of refereed academic journals.

AVAILABILITY

From 2009, Rural Society is available as an 'online plus print-on-demand' subscription. Institutional subscribers receive access to current and back issues online through Atypon-link.com. Supplementary print copies may be ordered directly from the publisher. Multicampus, multiuser licenses and single user password access may be arranged by subscribers through their subscription agent or with the publisher. Online access is available to subscribers through EBSCOhost, SwetsWise, CNPIEC and CELDES.

Discounted hard copy subscriptions are available to non-profits and NGOs.

Pay per View (PPV) access for individual articles is available from Atypon. Special issues are available under their eISBN on a PPV, sale or multiuser lease from Ebook Library to institutions and from eBooks.com to individuals.

COPYRIGHT OWNERSHIP

To track copyright compliance each article has a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Copyright in all back volume, current and submitted material to Rural Society (ISSN 1037-1656) is vested in eContent Management Pty Ltd - in any medium, form, combination or format. Permission to reproduce material from the Rural Society journal, which falls outside the provisions of the Australian Copyright Act 1968, should be sought from the copyright owner at: info@e-contentmanagement.com.

Rural Society (ISSN 1037-1656) is owned and distributed exclusively by
eContent Management Pty Ltd (ABN 87 091 432 567)

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