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The journal publishes original manuscripts that address Latin America and the Caribbean from any of the disciplinary approaches of the social sciences and humanities. Researchers from all over the world are welcome to submit their manuscripts, in English or Spanish.

• The journal has now been online and Open Access since September 2016, and we can now measure usage. The total number of downloads and views to all articles published so far is 5,498, and it keeps growing. To be compared with the print volumes that were previously distributed only in a few hundred copies per issue.
• We have, so far, been able to digitise the volumes from 2001–2016, and the work continues to ensure that all volumes from 1977 and onwards will be made available in digital format and fully searchable online. The oldest volumes will be sent for professional scanning to ensure the highest quality possible.
• All these articles will be published with Open Access, meaning that they are available for free download and sharing without any limits. The CC-BY licensing also makes it possible to translate content to other languages and to use text-and-data mining for large-scale analysis of the published work. Just remember to cite the source when you share material!
• To enhance discoverability, we are also working to index the journal in several relevant databases in Latin America and Europe. This year, we are for example aiming to start collaborating with the Brazilian database CAPES, the Redalyc database and will also approach the SCiELO database with an application to ensure that people from other parts of the world also can find the journal to be reliable.
• The Journal will once again open up for publishing articles in Portuguese, to include relevant research from more perspectives.
• To accommodate these changes, we have also increased funding to be able to publish 12 articles per year (compared to 10 articles in the previous budget). It is important for further developments to provide a high-quality peer-review and dissemination platform without any author-facing charges. The Institute of Latin American Studies at Stockholm University will, therefore, continue to cover the cost of publishing alongside with a generous grant from the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences.