Annual Report 2001

Editor: Richard L. Simpson
Book Review Editor: Christian Smith
Managing and Advertising Editor: Paul Mihas
Assistant to the Editors: Margaret P. Gibbs

The journal remains a frequently cited international sociological forum. We have paid subscribers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and about 80 foreign countries. In addition, we give exchange or free subscriptions to libraries and research centers in about two dozen foreign countries that lack hard currency. In calendar 2001 we published 50 articles and 63 book reviews for a total of 1,474 pages. Our 97 authors, not including book reviewers, were affiliated with 52 academic and nonacademic institutions. Our paid circulation remained stable at about 4,000. There were 265 new manuscripts submitted. Our relations with the Southern Sociological Society, whose Publications Committee is advisory to the journal and whose members receive cut-rate subscriptions, remained pleasant and productive. Subscription prices probably can remain unchanged again for Volume 81 (2002-2003).

Electronic Production and Accessibility

Our desktop publishing technology remains up to date. We have used electronic imaging in the physical production of the journal since 1997. Presently, JSTOR provides online access of SOCIAL FORCES volumes 1-77. Project Muse offers only the current volume, 80. We are currently negotiating with JSTOR and Project Muse in order to close the gap, vols. 78-79, which are not yet available online.

Because JSTOR and Project Muse have recently joined forces to make it easier for users to access archival holdings in both sites, we anticipate that, in the next volume year, SOCIAL FORCES readers conducting a search for back issues through JSTOR will also find links to Project Muse, where the current volume will be available. Users who have access to only JSTOR or Project Muse will still be able to search the full run of SOCIAL FORCES through links that will take them from one site to another.

Prices

The financial picture appears fairly satisfactory, so that subscription prices for Volume 81 (September 2002 through June 2003) can remain unchanged from the current (Volume 80) prices, despite the understanding reached with SSS ten years ago that SSS member prices would be raised every two years (The Southern Sociologist, 24:1, Spring-Summer 1992, pp. 10-11).

Our best guess is that prices will have to go up a year hence, as they could have done this year in accordance with the 1992 understanding. The low SSS member prices are made possible by a generous subsidy of the journal by UNC-Chapel Hill and its Press.

Personnel

For the 2001-2002 academic year, Kraig Beyerlein and Natalia Deeb-Sossa served as Associate Editors. They succeeded Erin Leahey and Margaret Mueller, whose terms had expired. These associate editors are UNC-Chapel Hill graduate students elected annually by the sociology faculty. Their main tasks are to assist the editors by recommending possible book reviewers and article manuscript referees.

Eighteen non-Chapel Hill people joined the Editorial Board as manuscript reviewers for three-year terms starting in Fall 2001. By agreement with the Southern Sociological Society, half or more of the non-Chapel Hill Board members are members of SSS when appointed. These new members are Paul R. Amato, Penn State; John Boli, Emory; Robert L. Boyd, Mississippi State; Deborah Davis, Yale; Theodore N. Greenstein, North Carolina State; Peggy G. Hargis, Georgia Southern; Darnell F. Hawkins, Illinois-Chicago; Lauren J. Krivo, Ohio State; Kenneth C. Land, Duke; Holly J. McCammon, Vanderbilt; John W. Meyer, Stanford; Debra C. Minkoff, Washington-Seattle; Bernice A. Pescosolido, Indiana; Wesley Shrum, Louisiana State; Lynn Smith-Lovin, Arizona; Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, North Carolina State; Lynn K. White, Nebraska; and Martin K. Whyte, Harvard.

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