BOKK Journals

The ‘Journals & Papers’ area collects together references to papers from academic journals, and other primary research sources, providing a single link for all references across the FRAW site – and in reverse, listing significant articles which reference that source.

To access the alphabetic pages of the Journals library use the navigation bar at the foot of the screen.

Using a single jump-off point for a given reference has a number of benefits: We can update the off-site links more easily when they change; if we link to an on-site copy, and a free copy becomes available elsewhere, we can quickly change the link and free-up space on the FRAW site; and what’s new with this section, when older content links to certain research sources we can warn when there are significant changes to the research, or its interpretation, without having to re-write all the original pages that link to it.

From the very beginnings of the FRAW website (on a CD in 1995, moving on-line in 1996), we have created directories of links to primary research in order to cut-out the mass media’s filtering of the information it provides (when the media can be bothered to report such troubling research at all!). In particular, before the UK Government made its publications freely available on-line, we used to scan and reproduce significant policy, law, and guidance documents on-line for active members of the public to consult and use in their local work. Once the Government made its documents available for free we had no need to do that any more.

Academic research has, however, undergone the opposite transformation: As more journals have moved on-line over the last twenty years research is increasingly being locked behind paywalls, denying the public the opportunity to affordably educate themselves on issues of pressing importance. Within this directory we provide links to significant research papers on the publisher’s site, or to other ‘free’ sources when the paper is locked behind a paywall.

Together, we hope that this collection will prove useful as a resource, not only by bringing together content across the FRAW via the research they cite, but also highlighting the policy and commentary that defines critical social and ecological issues.