BOONE, N.C. — As the Crow Flies, the new open-access expansion of Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, goes live on Sept. 15. Appalachian Journal, founded in 1972, is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly featuring field research, roundtable discussions, interviews, first-person essays, and scholarly studies of history, politics, economics, culture, folklore, literature, music, ecology, and a variety of other topics, as well as poetry, photography, and reviews of books, films, and recordings dealing with the region of the Appalachian mountains. The material in As the Crow Flies undergoes the same editorial and peer review processes as the print content, but is more freely available to readers and researchers.
Appalachian Journal debuts open-access expansion As the Crow Flies
