What is History Compass?
History Compass (www.history-compass.com) offers the quality of a scholarly journal combined with the speed and functionality of the Web.
History Compass publishes peer-reviewed state-of-the-field articles on a continuous basis, with new articles appearing in each monthly issue. The ideal Compass article is an intervention in the field or sub-field, showing its present state and direction in the future. While our authors are leading researchers, we do not publish detailed primary research but rather an author’s position on the field or sub-field. As a Compass article must be accessible to international and interdisciplinary scholars, teachers, and interested readers, we call it research with a public face.
ISSN: 1478-0542
History Compass provides...
- A new kind of core content: state-of-the-art surveys of current research discuss the major topics, issues, viewpoints, and controversies within each area of the discipline.
- Coverage of the entire field highlights connections across sub-disciplines of historical scholarship
- Reference-linked bibliographies for each article, providing the ideal entry point into specialist literature
- Teaching Guides from article authors to inspire and engage your students
- 100 new authoritative, peer-reviewed survey articles per year: 3 times more than a standard journal
- Fast continuous publication: articles typically available 12-16 weeks after acceptance and as an online-only journal there are no issue restrictions
- Compass podcasts allow you to plug into the fresh, lively, up-to-the-minute debates and discussions surrounding published Compass articles
How to contribute to History Compass
Articles for History Compass are commissioned by the Section Editors, but we would be delighted to hear your suggestions and ideas for topics. If you have an idea for an article that you would like to read, or would like to write yourself, you can contact the relevant Section Editor (check their profile page for an email address) or email: HICOeditorial@wiley.com
For more detailed submission instructions and instructions for already commissioned authors click here.
Testimonials
"History Compass may soon become the online rival to 'Past and Present' and 'The Journal of Modern History' combined, an indispensable resource for historians and students."
University of Kansas, USA
"History Compass allows students to take the classroom home by providing reliable information and expert analysis of historical issues on demand. It offers teachers new insights, fresh inspiration, and up-to-date bibliographies. An excellent blend of traditional and virtual pedagogies."
University of Southern California, USA
"An immensely valuable resource for teaching and learning, History Compass is the only scholarly publication where historians and students can find such a large and varied amount of high-quality historiography."
Director of the Institute of Historical Research
"History Compass, true to its name, does offer a very helpful, and timely, tool to find one's way in several different fields. It is especially useful, I think, to obtain an introduction to fields in which one is not specialized oneself."
Leiden University, The Netherlands
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