The Gypsy Lore Society

THE GYPSY LORE SOCIETY

ROMANI STUDIES
continuing
Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society

Romani Studies is an international, interdisciplinary journal publishing modern scholarship in all branches of Romani/Gypsy studies.

Founded in 1888, the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society was published in four series up to 1982. In 2000, the journal became Romani Studies. Under the sponsorship of the Gypsy Lore Society (formerly Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter), Romani Studies features articles on the cultures of groups traditionally known as Gypsies as well as Travelers and other peripatetic groups. These groups include, among others, those referring to themselves as Ludar, Rom, Roma, Romanichels, Sinti and Travelers. The journal publishes articles in history, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, art, literature, folklore and music, as well as reviews of books and audiovisual materials.

Romani Studies is published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society.

Romani Studies appears twice a year. A Romani Studies subscription is a membership privilege of the Gypsy Lore Society. Society members also receive a quarterly newsletter and discounts on other society publications. Annual membership is $35 to individuals. A non-member subscription to Romani Studies is $40. (Add $5 for delivery outside North America.) See Membership Information to subscribe to Romani Studies or order back issues.

Institutional subscription to Romani Studies for 2007 is £45 (EEA/ROW), $80 (US and Canada). For information on institutional subscriptions, contact subscriptions@marston.co.uk Also see http://www.romanistudies.org..

Romani Studies is abstracted or indexed in America: History and Life, Anthropological Index Online, Anthropological Literature, Historical Abstracts, IBZ/IBR, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, International Current Awareness Series, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA Bibliography, RILM and Sociological Abstracts.

Current issues of Romani Studies are also indexed in electronic format by OCLC FirstSearch and by RLIN's Eureka. Periodicals Contents Index indexes the tables of contents of the journal, 1888-1990. These services may be consulted in libraries.

Full text digital files of Romani Studies for 2000 to the current issue are available at libraries through EBSCO's databases Academic Search Premier, Academic Source Premier, and EBSCO MegaFILE; and for 2004 to the current issue through ProQuest's Social Science Journals and 5000 International collections.

Full text digital files of the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 1888-1982, are part of Collection 6 of ProQuest CSA's Periodicals Archive Online. Series 5 of the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society and Romani Studies is due to be added to the database in May 2007. This service may be consulted in libraries.

Back Issues

Back issues for series 5, volumes 1-15 of the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society and Romani Studies (continuing Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society) are available from the Gypsy Lore Society at $6 per issue to Gypsy Lore Society members, $12 to non-members. Contact Treasurer, Gypsy Lore Society, 5607 Greenleaf Road, Cheverly MD 20785; Tel 301-341-1261, Fax 1-810-592-1768, E-mail headquarters@gypsyloresociety.org. You may order by using the Membership Form.

Back issues for series 5, volume 16 on, are available from Marston Book Services Ltd, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4YN, UK, subscriptions@marston.co.uk; price £45/$45 per issue.

The first three series of the journal, 1888-1973, are available on microfilm through Thomson Gale Primary Source Microfilm, 12 Lunar Drive, Woodbridge, CT 06525, USA.

For more information on Romani Studies, click on one of the links below:

	Contents of the Most Recent Issue (June 2006)
	Information for Contributors to the Journal.
	Index to Series 5 of the Journal.
	List of Library Holdings and Current Subscriptions.

Revised: 03/06/07