Aims & Scope

This peer-reviewed journal aims to provide a common forum for informed articulation and debate of empirical, critical and theoretical research on all forms of currencies and community based economics.

The Journal was first published in 1997 and it was conceived as an online forum for disseminating knowledge about community and complementary currencies. As a freely available online resource, it makes new scientific knowledge about this innovative phenomenon accessible to all, thereby overcoming many of the barriers separating ‘academics’ from ‘activists’.

Community currencies are here defined widely to encompass the full range of possible currency systems, alternative, parallel, complementary, local, social, surrogate or anything or system that can be used to make payments. Our desire is to facilitate analysis not only of those systems currently in use, which includes, mutual credit systems, business trade exchanges, resource pooling, LETS, time-based systems such as time-banks, scrip-based community exchanges,  loyalty cards, points systems found in gaming or elsewhere and crypto currencies, but also to provide an arena in which the historical and the future use of community currencies and their alternatives can be explored.

The IJCCR is published on an ongoing basis. The journal is published in English, although Special Issues in other languages are possible, with abstracts in English.