Aims The Journal of Global Buddhism has been established to promote the study of Buddhism's globalization and its transcontinental interrelatedness. The Journal of Global Buddhism is a scholarly academic journal employing a blind peer review evaluation process, and is innovative in adopting a totally electronic mode of publication. In all respects, it functions as a traditional scholarly journal. An online journal differs from a traditional journal in that it publishes electronically as opposed to a printed format. The Journal of Global Buddhism will also publish material on an ongoing rather than a periodic basis, eliminating any backlog between acceptance and publication.
Online journals are a logical development in the use of information technology.
The dissemination of information through this medium has three main advantages over publication in the traditional manner, namely, cost, speed, and ease of access. Other advantages of an electronic medium include keyword searching and the use of multimedia and hypertext formats. The editors are committed to the widest dissemination for material published in the journal. As well as publishing online they will also explore the possibility for the publication of the contents of the journal from time to time in partnership with traditional presses. The journal will be searched by the normal citation indexes for this subject classification.