Oral Archives Journal (OAJ)

Oral Archives Journal (OArJ) is an open access peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to oral sources. It aims at offering a critical space for discussing issues related to the construction, maintenance, use and reuse of oral archives. The journal publishes academically rigorous and original works in Italian, French and English. It is published once a year, available online in open access. Oral Archives Journal aims to fill a gap in the Italian publishing scene, where journals dedicated to the world of archives mainly refer to 'written' archives, and wants to represent a virtual meeting place between the academic world, public and private institutions, foundations and associations. In the past, there have been journals dedicated to oral archives (e.g. ‘Fonti orali’, directed by Luisa Passerini from 1981 to 1984 and by Daniele Jalla from 1985 to 1987), but what is lacking today is an interdisciplinary point of reference that unites different fields of knowledge and, above all, brings together different actors. There is also a lack of a publishing venue that could enhance the archival work of organising and cataloguing oral sources. An often time-consuming and resource-intensive task, taking care of one's sound documents is instead a fundamental step to guarantee the transmission and dissemination of their contents, as well as the replicability of studies on them. The journal aims to put the spotlight on this activity usually carried out behind the scenes by all scholars of orality and voice, in the firm belief that a well-structured oral archive should be considered a product of research. The aim of Oral Archives Journal is to publish original papers concerned with oral archives from different perspectives, including research on linguistics, ethnomusicology, archiving and oral history.

Oral Archives Journal (OAJ) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Oral History, Archival Studies, Cultural Heritage, Historical Research, Memory Studies, Methodology of Historical Sources , Online , Yearly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN E-ISSN: 3035-4781, Established: 2025,
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE