>>Dear Colleagues, >> >>We are pleased to announce that Observatorio(OBS*) journal is officially >>launched. Vol. 1 no. 1, 2007, including contributions from scholars from >>Spain, Finland, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands and Portugal, published in >>English, Spanish, Italian, Galician and Portuguese, is now available. The >>first issue is available to any interested reader, free of charge >>simply go to the website [ http://obs.obercom.pt ] and register. >> >>OberCom, Observatory for the Media, is one of Portugal’s premier centres >>on media research. Its peer-review journal, Observatorio(OBS*), is an >>online, multimedia, open access, academic character publication. It is an >>interdisciplinary e-journal which, although focused in communication, is >>opened to the contributions of other subjects which claim themselves as >>part of the Communication Studies’ areas, from academia to the >>business-related world. >> >>Observatorio (OBS*) e-journal is a publication with international >>character, which accepts and publishes texts written in Portuguese, >>Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Italian, French and English. >> >>OberCom also publishes a monthly Newsletter in English. You are welcome to >>submit news of interest to the international research community to >>[log in to unmask] .More information about the centre and its publications >>is available at http://www.obercom.pt/en . >> >>We hope you will find this project of interest to your research activity >>and that, in a near future, we will be able to count with you work among >>the authors published at Observatorio (OBS*) journal. >> >>Gustavo Cardoso and Rita Espanha >>Editors >