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The February Journal is an interdisciplinary academic journal that is peer-reviewed and available in diamond open access. It is published by Berlin Universities Publishing[1] 1 and indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
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Submission declined on 2 October 2025 by Pythoncoder (talk). This draft reads like an advertisement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a platform for promotion or marketing. Drafts that are exclusively promotional may be deleted without notice.
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Comment: The “aims and scope” section is particularly promotional —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 07:58, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
Aims & Scope
The February Journal publishes empirical, theoretical, and speculative research as well as research-driven artistic and activist work, aiming to expand the boundaries of academic practice. It uses feminist, decentering, queer, decolonial, and autotheoretical methodologies to address contemporary cultural, social, and political questions.
History
The February Journal was founded in 2022 by Katerina Suverina, Ana Panduri (pseudonym), and Andrei Zavadski, who are now part of its editorial team (structured non-hierarchically).
The journal has its roots in another open-access publication, The Garage Journal: Studies in Art, Museums & Culture,[2] which was founded in 2019 by Vlad Strukov, Katerina Suverina, Ana Panduri (pseudonym), Yuri Yurkin, and Andrei Zavadski. Aimed at an international academic audience, the journal was based at and supported by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia. It sought to advance critical discussions about contemporary art, culture, and museum practice in the Russian and global contexts. With the beginning of the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent introduction of wartime censorship in Russia, the Garage Museum shut the journal down.
The rights to its archive and platform, however, were transferred to the journal’s former team, part of which used the existing platform to launch a new independent Berlin-based publication: The February Journal.
Its name, underlining the caesura of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, supports contributions by displaced scholars and scholars affected by war, as well as professionals who do not have institutional support and early career researchers.[3]
Berlin Universities Publishing
In 2024, The February Journal became part of Berlin Universities Publishing, an open access non-commercial publisher funded by the Berlin University Alliance and supported jointly by the libraries of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
Language Policy
The February Journal has a long-term objective of publishing all submissions in the original language, plus their translation into English. At the moment all articles are published in English, with the exception of The Garage Journal’s archive, which is partly in Russian.
The Garage Journal’s Archive
The archive of The Garage Journal is openly available on the website of The February Journal.
Indexing
Started in 2025, articles published in The February Journal are indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
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