1) CLCWeb is a peer-refereed electronic journal, published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. It aims at publishing scholarship in Comparative Literature and Culture following the principles of the discipline as outlined in chapter one of Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application  (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1998). In addition, CLCWeb welcomes work in the widest definition of Comparative Literature and Culture.
 
    2) CLCWeb's primary focus is the publication of work in the study of literature and culture where literature is understood as an artistic expression in an international/global and/or cross-disciplinary context; an activity, production, and reception that is connected to and dependent on other forms, situations, and activities of human expression. The creation, production, audience/readership, and reception/appreciation of literature as a cultural (social, psychological, political, economic, etc.) activity is, by definition, "comparative" and "systemic," in reflection of the interrelatedness and self-referentiality of these activities. Thus, its study is best performed by paying attention to its contextual nature while this attention and study should be executed in the mode of observation, that is, empirically (evidence and knowledge based), in addition to the theoretical and methodological notions of system and comparison. Please see also Procedures of Publication of and Procedures of Submission to CLCWeb.
 
    3) CLCWeb also publishes Book Reviews and Review Articles in and for Comparative Literature and Culture.
 
    4) CLCWeb also publishes Bibliographies in its Library for Research and Information in/for Comparative Literature and Culture.
 
    5) CLCWeb also publishes special topical issues and welcomes submission of topics for such special issues.
 
    6) With the rapid development of technology, scholarship in the Humanities follows suit. The use of technology -- in this case the internet and the world wide web -- is advantageous and must be exploited in all of its aspects for the advancement of scholarship in the humanities. The internet and the world wide web clearly serve the dissemination and transfer of knowledge to the benefit of scholarship, the individual scholar, as well as the general public.
 
    7) At present, there exists no operative e-journal in and for the discipline of Comparative Literature and Culture, although some Comparative Literature and Comparative Literature oriented journals place the table of contents of their publications on the world wide web and there are several active e-journals and web sites in cultural studies. Hence, the editor and the advisory board / associate editors of CLCWeb believe that CLCWeb fills a gap on the landscape of scholarship in the Humanities in literature and culture.