It judges manuscripts solely on their scholarly merit. While making every effort to attract high-quality Canadian manuscripts, Canadian Slavonic Papers welcomes contributors from other countries. The journal is determined to attract the finest scholars wherever they may be. It encourages mature and established scholars to chose Canadian Slavonic Papers as their venue and makes every effort to nurture those who are young and promising. Canadian Slavonic Papers is the only journal of its kind published in Canada.
Articles are well balanced between modern, early-modern and medieval topics.
Canadian Slavonic Papers publishes the only annual bibliography that surveys Canadian contributions on the former Soviet Union, Central and East Europe. Recently it published an issue on Isaak Babel and another on Slavic Drama. The most recent issue contained six articles devoted to the question of nationalism and self-determination in multinational societies. Canadian Slavonic Papers has nearly 800 individual and institutional subscribers. When the journal came to the University of Alberta in 1991, it had about 700 subscribers.