WAC Clearinghouse
The WAC Clearinghouse publishes peer-reviewed, open-access journals and books, as well as other professional resources for teachers and instructional materials for students. Writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) refers to a formal programmatic approach within contemporary secondary and higher education composition studies that promotes the importance of writing in classes outside of composition. Working with the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum Programs (AWAC), the WAC Clearinghouse operates as a publishing collaborative, drawing on contributions from more than 180 individuals from six continents serving on the editorial boards of academic journals supported by the Clearinghouse, as editors  or reviewers of its book series, as editors of resource pages on its website, and as members of the overall Clearinghouse editorial board. The open-access character of the scholarship available through the Clearinghouse book series provides free access to scholarly monographs, edited collections, and textbooks, providing students and teachers with an alternative to purchasing scholarly and classroom instructional materials. For individuals and libraries who wish to own print copies of its books, the Clearinghouse works with University Press of Colorado to make print books available in low-cost editions. The Clearinghouse also collaborates with other open-access publishers in  the field of writing studies, including Computers and Composition Digital Press and Writing Spaces, which both publish open-access scholarly work, including innovative, multimodal digital writing projects, using traditional academic peer reviewed processes. The WAC Clearinghouse addresses several disciplinary areas within writing studies, such as second-language writing, writing fellows, antiracism, and writing in the STEM disciplines. History and resources. Established in 1997, the Clearinghouse is among the most successful open-access publishing projects in the humanities. It publishes six active academic journals, including "Across the Disciplines," devoted to language, learning and academic writing; "The WAC Journal," focused on WAC  theory and ideas; "Double Helix," an international journal on writing, critical thinking, pedagogical theory and classroom practice; "Journal of Writing Analytics," which focuses on the study of writing processes and written texts through a wide range of analytical tools; "Journal of Basic Writing," which publishes articles on theory, research, and teaching practices related to basic writing; and "Open Words: Access and English Studies". It also provides access to the archives of eleven journals, including "RhetNet," an online journal of rhetoric and composition that explores what "net" publishing may be in its natural form and "Language and Learning Across the Disciplines