1) CLCWeb is a peer-refereed (blind) journal of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, published online quarterly in March, June, September, and December. For more detail, see also "Procedures of Publication" <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced1.html>  and "Procedures of Submission" <htttp://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced2.html>.
    2) CLCWeb publishes scholarship in the widest definition of the discipline of comparative literature and culture, in combining comparative literature with cultural studies as "comparative cultural studies." comparative cultural studies is a new field of study where the notion of comparative is merged with the field of cultural studies from the basic premises of the discipline of comparative literature -- meaning that the study of culture and culture products, including but not restricted to literature, communication, media, art, etc. -- is performed in a global and international context and with a plurality of methods and approaches, inter-disciplinarity, and, if and when required, including team work. In comparative cultural studies it is the processes of  communicative action(s) in culture and the how of  these processes that constitute the main objectives of research and study. However, comparative cultural studies does not exclude textual analysis proper or other established fields of study. In comparative cultural studies the framework of and methodologies available in the systemic and empirical study of culture are favoured. CLCWeb 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's Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi at <http://www.rodopi.nl>, 1998) at <http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/books/totosy98/> as well as the notions and principles outlined in Steven Tötösy, "From Comparative Literature Today toward Comparative Cultural Studies" in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal 1.3 (1999): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-3/totosy99.html>. The journal's primary focus is the publication of work in the study of literature and culture where expressions of culture are understood in an international and global and cross-disciplinary context. Expressions of culture including but not restricted to literature are understood as the activity, the production, and the reception of these expressions that are 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, historical, political, economic, etc.) activity is, by definition, "comparative" and "systemic," in reflection of the interrelatedness and self-referentiality of these activities. Thus, the research and study of such activities and their products are best performed by paying attention to their contextual nature while this research and study should be executed in the mode of observation, that is, empirically (evidence and knowledge based and observed), in addition to the theoretical and methodological notions of system and comparison. CLCWeb welcomes new work in literary, critical, and culture theory and methods / comparative literary history / the comparison of primary texts across languages and cultures / translation as comparative literature / marginalities in comparison / diaspora, exile, migrant, and ethnic minority writing / feminist theory and criticism / gay/lesbian writing / comparative popular culture / film and other media and literature / lesser-known literatures in a comparative context / cross-disciplinary studies where literary texts and literary problems are examined with the use of sociological, economic, psychological, historical, etc., frameworks and methods / literature and the history of publishing, the book, and writing / readership and audience research / studies on new trends in the study of literature and culture / and the introduction of new works and authors in a comparative context.
    3) CLCWeb publishes Book Review Articles in comparative literature and culture. The length of a boook review article should be between 3000-6000 words. The Modern Language Association of America parenthetical sources and works cited format is required (no footnotes or end notes). A publisher interested in a review is required to send one copy to the editor of CLCWeb: Steven Tötösy, 8 Sunset Road, Winchester, MA 01890 USA. E-mail: <totosy@lib.purdue.edu> and a second copy directly to the reviewer whose address is forwarded to the publisher upon decision to review.
    4) CLCWeb publishes Bibliographies as well as other research material in the field in its Library of Research and Information in Comparative Literature and Culture <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library.html>.
    5) CLCWeb publishes thematic issues and welcomes submission of topics for such special issues. A thematic issue proposed is first assessed for approval by the advisory board of CLCWeb. Thematic issues are edited by the guest editor(s) and the selection and acceptance of material in a thematic issue is entrusted to the guest editor(s). Final approval of a thematic issue and its material rests with the editor of CLCWeb.