Rural Society

Rural Society is the journal of research into rural and regional social issues, published three times a year by the Centre for Rural Social Research at Charles Sturt University. Although designed to be accessible to a broad readership, it is a fully refereed academic journal, which is recognised by DEST for the purposes of Research Data Collection and is included in the Register of Refereed Journals.

Changes to Rural Society in 2007

  • From 2007 Rural Society (ISSN 1037-1656) will be published by eContent Management Pty Ltd www.e-contentmanagement.com
  • Subscriptions may be renewed for 2007 directly with the new publisher:
    subscriptions@e-contentmanagement.com
  • Authors may continue to submit manuscript to the Editor, Marion Bannister at: mbannister@csu.edu.au
  • Rural Society (ISSN 1037-1656) will be indexed/abstracted in more major international indexing services and databases
  • During the course of 2007 back volumes of Rural Society (ISSN 1037-1656) will be made available online to current subscribers

Topics covered in Rural Society have included the rural media; small town development; rural gender issues; agricultural restructuring; heritage and tourism; youth and ageing in rural areas and many other rural related topics.

  • Guidelines for contributors
  • Editorial Advisory Board
  • Subscription information
  • Rural Society 2004 (full text RSVol14_1.pdf, RSVol14_2.pdf, RSVol14_3.pdf)
  • Rural Society 2003-2004(Contents only)
  • Rural Society 1999-2002 (Contents only)
  • Rural Society 1997-1999 (Full Text - Acrobat File Format)
  • Rural Society 1990-1996 (Full Text)
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    Editorial team

    Editors:
    Marion Bannister

    Book Review Editor:
    Dr Alex Segal

    Subscription Manager:
    Mrs Lin Harding

    Chair, Publications Committee:
    Dr Tony Thompson

    URL: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/crsr/ruralsoc/rursoc.htm