{"id":630,"date":"2017-10-17T12:14:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T17:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=630"},"modified":"2017-10-17T12:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T17:14:26","slug":"library-launches-international-research-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2017\/10\/17\/library-launches-international-research-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Launches International Research Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-631 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/10\/JccfsLogoHigherRes-1-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/10\/JccfsLogoHigherRes-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/10\/JccfsLogoHigherRes-1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/10\/JccfsLogoHigherRes-1-490x322.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/10\/JccfsLogoHigherRes-1.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The library launched the latest of its open access journals, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.acu.edu\/jccfs\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journal of Cross-Cultural Family Studies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (JCCFS)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which is an electronic, peer-reviewed acade<\/span><span>mic journal that concentrates on research about families and individuals engaged in cultural transition and adaptation. \u00a0Dr. Carley Dodd and Dr. Cindy Rope<\/span>r, professors in ACU\u2019s Department of Communication and Sociology, serve as editors-in-chief and on the journal\u2019s editorial board.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This journal is significant for the Library in that it is more international in scope than other journals we have developed. \u00a0The executive board is made up of people stationed in different countries, and is affiliated with the internationally recognized professional and research organization called Families in Global Transition. \u00a0It addresses a research niche not well covered by other publications. \u00a0In the two weeks since its launch, the articles have been downloaded over 100 times by scholars in over 25 different countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Dodd shared, \u201cThe articles represent good scholarship. \u00a0We are extremely blessed by the generous support from the ACU Library.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The library launched the latest of its open access journals, Journal of Cross-Cultural Family Studies (JCCFS) which is an electronic, peer-reviewed academic journal that concentrates on research about families and individuals engaged in cultural transition and adaptation. \u00a0Dr. Carley Dodd and Dr. Cindy Roper, professors in ACU\u2019s Department of Communication and Sociology, serve as editors-in-chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}