On the Publisher

The journals available on the platform are published by the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, established in 1954. The Institute pursues research in linguistics, literary studies, cultural studies, history, ethnology and sociology in the following fields:

• Cultural heritage of Slavic peoples, diachronic research;
• Cultural and regional identities of the Slavs, ideas, myths, collective memory;
• Multiculturalism, linguistic and cultural exchange and borderlands; linguistic, ethnic and religious minorities;
• Linguistic worldview;
• Slavic synchronic linguistics: comparative studies, semantics, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics;
• Slavic studies worldwide, Slavic studies information systems.

The profile of research conducted by the Institute is reflected in its organisation – the Institute has four departments: the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Literary and Cultural Studies, the Department of History, and the Department of Nationality Studies.

The Institute is an active participant in academic life in Poland and abroad, conducting numerous inter-institutional and international research projects, organising conferences, publishing journals and monographs, offering PhD studies and internships for young scholars, and engaging in social responsibility projects.

The scholarly achievements of the Institute have long been reflected in its top ratings awarded by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science (Category A+ in culture and religion studies, Category A in linguistics) and the Polish Academy of Sciences.