eScholarship Publishing is pleased to welcome Analog Game Studies (AGS), an established open access journal founded in 2014, to its Diamond open access journals program. AGS is a leading venue for interdisciplinary scholarship on games with an analog component, including tabletop, role-playing, and live-action games. The journal brings together scholarly work in the humanities, media studies, education, and sociology, with a focus on the cultural and social dimensions of play.
AGS is stewarded by Editor-in-Chief Edmond Chang (Ohio University) and Senior Editor Aaron Trammell (UC Irvine) alongside an international editorial collective. The journal has historically operated as an independent, community-driven publication, and its move to eScholarship Publishing reflects a shared commitment to open access publishing and long-term sustainability, as well as a desire to improve discoverability, indexing, and preservation.
In the latest issue of AGS, the editorial team highlights how the migration to eScholarship Publishing supports the journal’s goals, particularly around accessibility and “citational justice,” ensuring that the contributions of its authors are more visible and integrated into scholarly ecosystems: “In other words, the problems of citation and publication are systemic, and we scholars must be active in lobbying our peers, committees, departments, conferences, and communities about celebrating smaller journals that have taken an alternative path forward than those which are more canonically or traditionally legible to the institution.”
AGS is known for its “open-yet-curatorial” editorial peer review model and its “rigorous and transparent” editing process, both of which emphasize collaboration between editors and authors while maintaining a strong curatorial voice. This approach has helped foster a distinctive and inclusive scholarly community within the broader field of game studies. Actively publishing for over ten years, Analog Game Studies is well positioned to expand its reach while maintaining its core values as an open access journal. We are excited to support the journal’s continued growth and impact by welcoming it to the eScholarship Publishing program.
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