i have to agree that a description for this publication is magazine or professional magazine as stated earlier financing is not a concern as it appears to be common practice for academic journals to charge a subscription unless it is an open access journal however based on the available accu description i am not seeing peer review as stated above an academic journal is usually very clear about its peer review process in addition a journal's description of its peer review process is clearly recognizable the description given at the accu is hazy or fuzzy at best but personally i do not think it indicates a peer review process without a peer review process this cannot qualify as an academic journal as headbomb pointed out it may be reviewed by peers and is of high quality but it does not appear to be a formal academic peer review it might even be described as a professional technical magazine here is an article about an actual peer reviewed magazine computer magazine from the ieee computer society here is an online description of the magazine and notice that peer reviewed is part of the description along with its coverage here is a paragraph description of the review process as part of the author guidelines instructions for reviewers of this magazine are given here