In conceiving of this project in1997, I was aware of a few dozen e-journals, and naively thought I might actually be able to list the universe of such journals, and do a random selection, or even a complete enumertion of the 2 or 3 dozen social science journals then operating.. The explosion of e-journals, however, to an estimated 3000 (of which some 500- 800 would be social science ones) by early 1999, and the continual rapid growth in numbers made this stategy impossible. I resorted to using web-search engines to locate listings, and then followed through connecting links (as indicated in my reference/links sub-page); after doing a cursory visit to some 300 social research journals, I then made a purposive, non-random selection seeking to get a balance with repesentatives from all social research disciplines (history, humanities, cultural studies, geography, urban studies, economics, political science, law, criminology, ethnic studies, regional/development studies, women's studies, education, psychology, and especially sociology and anthropology), geographical areas, coutnries, languages, and attempting to include major, most-well-known journals.

This resulted in selecting 109 journals. Two were in Asian languages (and English), 8 Germanic (and English), 14 Romance, and 85 English. Two were from Asian countries, 11 pacific countries, 5 Latin American, 0 African, 27 European, 15 Canadian, and 50 from the United States. These distributions coincide roughly with the distribution of internet providers and users.

Personnel of Journals Surveyed Initially

webmistress@mitpress.mit.edu
ba@emergit.com
art_contest@prepress.pps.com
boss@interpubco.com
ctheory@vax2.concordia.ca
mike.sosteric@ualberta.ca
norton@socforum.com
homerw@usc.edu
Candice.Bradley@Lawrence.edu
Judy.Norris@ualberta.ca
ron@nsu.acast.nova.edu
Nigel.Gilbert@soc.surrey.ac.uk
socres@soc.surrey.ac.uk
ejournals-maintainer@ejournals.cic.net
deveatko@socforum.com
hjarvis@acsu.buffalo.edu
theoretical.anthropology@univie.ac.at
cultural.dynamics@rug.ac.be
ssjrev@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp
robin@cybersoc.com
SFVoces@aol.com
abz@posta.unizar.es
feedback@zonezero.com
khayat@grolier.fr
info@keylight.org
rmoore@susqu.edu.
info@eastgate.com.
flahermg@eckerd.edu
scout@cs.wisc.edu.
mats.ekstrom@hoe.se
sarjoman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
cursoc@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
cinglis@coombs.anu.edu.au
mino@itcaspur.caspur.it
isa@sis.ucm.es
asq_journal@cornell.edu
ajs@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu
edwards@asanet.org
soci2188@waikato.ac.nz
s.peters@surrey.ac.uk
Murray.Knuttila@uregina.ca
cdr@uccb.ns.ca
pretext@iafrica.com
office@iccr.co.at
Pierre.Laurent@labo-langues.unicaen.fr
ingar.roggen@sosiologi.uio.no
bdick@scu.edu.au
isa@sis.ucm.es
lin@aris.ss.uci.edu
jonathon.moses@sv.ntnu.no
crsr@csu.edu.au
sojrc@blaze.trentu.ca
benard-milot.christine@uqam.ca
scielo@bireme.br
sgilbert@udgserv.cencar.udg.mx
gilson@waikato.ac.nz
eric_morgan@ncsu.edu
kellner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
sa1171@cnsibm.albany.edu
judith@turner.net.
lbrawley@kent.edu
mcgett@wfu.edu
info@sspp.net
socmeth@stat.washington.edu
bms@ext.jussieu.fr
goertz@sfs-dortmund.de
markus@informatik.uni-bonn.de
W.J.H.vOorschot@kub.nl.
editors@newgen.org
klaus.makela@stakes.fi
mc@mailbox.uq.edu.au
info@educause.edu
KM@ktic.com
il epn@epn.org
david.hoff@soc.lu.se
wbhart@hart-li.com
clogic@eserver.org
ov@dept.english.upenn.edu
stuckel@hotmail.com
standards@colorado.edu
webmaster@shr.stanford.edu
kluwer@wkap.com
enquiries@carfax.co.uk
adriano@coruja.humanas.ufpr.br
soc_forum@cnsvax.albany.edu
ajer@ualberta.ca
jray@sfu.ca
cmpainfo@cmpa.ca
mmclaugh@rcf.usc.edu
sheizafr@shum.cc.huji.ac.il
cbelshaw@direct.ca
ricki.goldman-segall@ubc.ca
mna21@Keele.ac.uk
emcmahon@utas.edu.au
d.bracken@ucc.ie
pba@imv.aau.dk
tgibson@cleo.murdoch.edu.au
fkraus@mzes.uni-mannheim.de
ejv@uic.edu
HEURESIS@uca.es
parmst@po-box.mcgill.ca
ERCOMERsecr@fss.uu.nl
jstark@maui.net
mgiuliani@mail.sociol.unimi.it
sru@soc.surrey.ac.uk
tranet@igc.apc.org
usqr@uts.columbia.edu
gthursby@religion.ufl.edu