About the Journal

Frequency

The journal publishes twice per year.

Publisher

LINK Centre, School of Literature, Language and Media (SLLM), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa, with online hosting provided by the Khulisa Journals open access platform of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).

Establishment

AJIC's predecessor, The Southern African Journal of Information and Communication (SAJIC), also published by the Wits LINK Centre, ran from 2000 to 2008, up to and including Issue No. 9. The re-named journal with a broader remit, AJIC, began with Issue No. 10, which was published in 2010.

Publishing Licence

All AJIC articles are published online under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Contributors retain the copyrights and publishing rights in their contributions without restriction.

Funding

AJIC is funded by the Wits LINK Centre and does not collect article processing charges (APCs) from its contributors.

Accreditation

AJIC is accredited by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) SA. See 2025-2026 DHET List of Accredited Journals.

View the ASSAf Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa Report on Grouped Peer Review of Scholarly Journals in Communication and Information Sciences (2019) for an independent peer review of AJIC.

Indexing

AJIC's articles are indexed and hosted in the following open access databases: