Member Benefits

Benefits are the same for all levels of membership and include the following:

  • Members-only listserv for confidential editorial discussions & announcements

  • Eligibility for the annual awards competition (subject to published guidelines)

  • Advertising online through CELJ Member Directory

  • Special advertising rates in the Times Literary Supplement scholarly journal issues (see image)

  • Opportunity to mentor and recruit authors through CELJ outreach events

  • Access to members-only webinars and workshops throughout the year

  • Access to CELJ mediation service

If you have questions about becoming a member or renewing your memberships, please contact us.

Membership Options

++ Presses & Multi-Journal Editors ++

If you represent an academic or university press with multiple journals or are registering editors with multiple journals and need to pay for them altogether, please contact celj.editors@gmail.com to request an invoice.

Full Membership

Full membership is for those serving as the lead or managing editor at any academic journal—the primary decision-maker(s) at a single journal. Single editors of multiple journals are required to have one Full CELJ membership for each journal.

Associate Membership

Every journal is required to pay one Full Membership before any Associate memberships can be purchased.

Associate membership is for additional journal staff including graduate student editors; as well as adjuncts, unemployed, and independent scholar-editors; and alumni or retired editors.