We are pleased to announce that Observatorio(OBS*) journal is officially launched. Issue 1, 2007, including contributions from scholars from Spain, Finland, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands and Portugal, published in English, Spanish, Italian, Galician and Portuguese, is now available. The first issue is available to any interested reader, free of charge – simply go to the website http://obs.obercom.pt and register.

OberCom, Observatory for the Media, is one of Portugal’s premier centres on media research. Its peer-review journal, Observatorio(OBS*), is an online, multimedia, open access, academic character publication. It is an interdisciplinary e-journal which, although focused in communication, is opened to the contributions of other subjects which claim themselves as part of the Communication Studies’ areas, from academia to the business-related world.

Observatorio (OBS*) e-journal is a publication with international character, which accepts and publishes texts written in Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Italian, French and English.

OberCom also publishes a monthly Newsletter in English. You are welcome to submit news of interest to the international research community to obercom@obercom.pt .More information about the centre and its publications is available at http://www.obercom.pt/en.

We hope you will find this project of interest to your research activity and that, in a near future, we will be able to count with you work among the authors published at Observatorio (OBS*) journal.

Gustavo Cardoso and Rita Espanha
Editors


If you would like to make known Observatorio (OBS*) to other scholars, please use, or adapt the following text:
Observatorio (OBS*) journal is an online, multimedia and with an academic character publication ruled by the most high peer-review criteria, as the submissions evaluation is made by researchers and scholars from different countries. It is an interdisciplinary e-journal which, although focused in communication, is opened to the contributions of the other subjects which claim themselves as part of the Communication Studies’ areas.

Its formula of Open Access allows the authors to have the maximum of public exposition of their work. Texts of free access are most read, quoted and have more impact than the ones only available to those who can sign or buy.

Observatorio (OBS*) e-journal is a publication with international character, which accepts and publishes texts written in Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Italian, French and English. We want to publish articles that approach different theoretical and methodological ways and of several sources, from academia to the business-related world.