About
Focus and Scope
Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences (SLJSS) was launched in 1978 as a premier social science journal in Sri Lanka. Published twice a year (in June and December), it entertains social science contributions in the form of Research articles, Review articles, Work-in-progress articles and Correspondence, and publishes invited Book Reviews. The journal publishes social science articles in Sinhala, Tamil and English languages, on topics relevant to Sri Lanka in particular and South Asia in general. All papers are subjected to double-blind peer-review. The journal provides open access to all its articles through the Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL) forum. All articles in the journal are published under the Creative Commons License ‘Attribution-No Derivatives - CC BY-ND 4.0’ since 2018, SLJSS is indexed in SCOPUS and ESCI.
All articles published in the journal are deposited with Crossref
Publication Frequency
The journal publishes two issues per annum in June and December.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Archiving Policy
This journal is available for LOCKSS harvesting, to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. See LOCKSS harvesting start page.