Category: Announcements

Special Issue on Time Banks: Call for Papers

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The Ibero-American Association of Time Banks (ASIBDT), together with the Timebanks.org Association and the International Journal of Community Currency Reserach (IJCCR), on the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Time Banks association in the United States, are opening an international call for papers on time banks, time-currencies and time-based exchange networks, which will be published in a special issue dedicated to this anniversary.

To mark this important anniversary for the time banks in the United States, we are opening the possibility for academic and non-academic articles on the history, present state and future potential of time banks in this country and worldwide. 

The deadline for submitting articles and reviews in English or Spanish for this special issue will be February 1st, 2026.
We believe this is an opportunity for researchers and academics interested in contributing original work, which may include reviews, meta-analyses, empirical studies, theoretical and conceptual articles on time banks and other networks or organizations that use time as a unit of exchange. Also, articles on time-based exchange networks and time-based currencies are welcome.

For more information see the the full call (pdf):

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Important Update: IJCCR Platform Migration

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Dear Readers and Contributors of the International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR),

We are pleased to announce an important development for our journal: the migration to a new, enhanced platform that will significantly improve your research experience.

## What’s Coming

The new platform will feature:

  • Enhanced reference management system ** for better citation tracking and cross-referencing of our articles
  • Improved indexation capabilities ** to help you discover relevant research more efficiently
  • Modern interface and submission system ** designed for optimal user experience

## Our Commitment to Continuity

We want to assure you that this transition will be seamless:

  • No interruption to access **: The current website and all existing articles will remain fully accessible throughout the migration process
  • Complete archive preservation **: All published articles will be carefully migrated to maintain their integrity and accessibility
  • Clear communication **: We will only make the switch once the new system is thoroughly tested and the new website is completely ready

## Timeline

The migration process has started already and will take some time due to our limited resources. But we are committed to ensuring everything is perfectly configured before going live. Your continued access to IJCCR’s valuable research content remains our priority.

We appreciate your patience during this transition and look forward to providing you with an enhanced platform that better serves the community currency research community.

Best regards,

Jens Martignoni, Chief editor& the IJCCR Editorial Team

Out now: IJCCR Vol 28

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Dear readers

I am pleased to present the latest issue of IJCCR our International Journal on local, complementary and community currencies and monies. After a longer interval, we have once again put together a series of interesting and inspiring articles that we would like to present to you:

Haitong Xu, Althea Sellers, Rachel Gass and Craig Borowiak examined time banks by a life cycle approach as entities that undergo different stages of development with evolving impacts throughout their lifespan. This gives a more comprehensive understanding of the challenges and effects such institutions entail.

The research of Oriane Lafuente-Sampietro about convertible local currencies is a long-awaited comparative study about the economic impact of such currencies and shows that a real effect of up to 10% in turnover for small and medium-sized firms can be achieved. This is great news for proclaimers of new currencies.

There are two articles covering research approaches in the field of currencies: Christophe Place’s comprehensive literature review on research approaches covering all articles in IJCCR and Cristina Toti’s survey of taxonomies revealing the political nature of money which is not a coincidence but a kind of natural feature that has to be uncovered again.

With the Patacon Plan for a new currency in Argentina by Agustin Mario and the 3rd part of “Elementary monetary concepts and ideas” by Jens Martignoni two more conceptual texts focus on the design perspective of money.

And last but not least the book review of Diana Finch’s new book “Value Beyond Money. An Exploration of The Bristol Pound and The Building Blocks for An Alternative Economic System” completes the issue.

The full issue can be accessed https://ijccr.net/ijccr-28-2024/  or visit our website http://ijccr.net

Please consider our global open-access journal also for your papers to be published. Submit your paper at ijccr.journal@gmail.com.

with best wishes and greetings

Jens Martignoni
Chief editor

Out now: IJCCR (Vol 27)

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We have published our latest issue Volume 27 with new articles full of content. This time the focus is on the Far East with articles from Korea and Japan:

Jeremy September and Shigeto Kobayashi about LETS Passbook Communities as a special Japanese adaption of LETS.

Takushi Omuro with an interesting approach about Does the Use of Community Currency Change Pain of Paying and Willingness to Pay?

Seongkwang Seo with a Reexamination of Public and Community Currency Projects: in Korea about community projects and local money that is recognized as public project.

In our section “letters from the field”, Will Ruddick dives into ancestral wisdom and Commitment Pooling and applies this concept to today’s implementation using new technologies.

With a second part of Ideas for Debate: Elementary monetary concepts and storylines Jens Martignoni poses the provocative question that money is not a medium of exchange, which, if true, would have would have major implications for the concepts and designs of community currencies.

Find all new contributions also on the page “All Issues“.

Out now: New IJCCR Issue (Vol 26-2)

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We are pleased to present our latest issue, produced over the last few months, with five exciting articles. These also include the winner of the best paper award from last year’s RAMICS conference in Sofia, written by authors Luiz Arthur Silva de Faria, Bruno Chapadeiro Ribeiro, Henrique L. Cukierman and Eduardo H. Diniz. Go directly to their paper here, see an overview of the complete issue, or as always, find all new contributions on the page “All Issues“.

The IJCCR is in a challenging process of transition which meant that some things have been delayed while our authors had to be patient. That is why the current issue is included in last year’s volume number 26, with the references of the individual papers referring to a 2022 publication date.

Our new Editor-in-Chief Jens Martignoni is convinced that our work is important and a journal on community currencies fills an important niche. But we will need more resources and new ideas in order to continue to thrive in the future. One first step is the “Ideas for debate” section, reopened with this issue. We will publish more articles on elementary monetary concepts and story-lines in the next issues and look forward to stimulating discussion among scholars and practitioners.

Announcement

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New Editor

The International Journal of Community Currency Research welcomes its new Editor, Dr. Jens Martignoni.

Jens Martignoni was born 1963, trained as an engineer at the Technikum Winterthur, Switzerland, has an MBA in Nonprofit-Management from the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of Freiburg, Switzerland and a PhD in Cooperative Economics from the University of Cologne, Germany. He is a lecturer and senior researcher at ZHAW the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Management and Law, Winterthur, Switzerland. He has been working for many years on the development of alternative economic forms and better organizational models for currencies and new money systems. He is the author of the book “Das Geld neu erfinden” (reinventing money) and investigated and invented on complementary and community currencies since 1992.

He has published in the IJCCR: “A new approach to a typology of complementary currencies” and other articles.

Final call for papers – 6th RAMICS Congress, Sofia, October 2022

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Submissions to the 6th RAMICS conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, in October 2022 are still possible. 

We were  made aware of some misunderstandings. In consequence the deadline for abstracts has now been extended until July 4th, 8am.

We would like to clarify the following:

  • The congress will be hybrid: participation is possible both in person AND online (via Zoom), the latter at a reduced fee (from 50€).   
  • The congress is open for academia, practitioners and policymakers, all invited to share their latest insights. 
  • For researchers, presentations of their findings are possible for both published and unpublished articles. 
  • For practitioners reporting on their ongoing projects, the abstracts submitted under Theme 5 (“Review and Renew”) will not be judged by scientific criteria and will be accepted until Sept 15th. 
  • You do not need to become a member of RAMICS to participate in the congress.
  • Presenters will be invited to submit new versions of their work to the research journal associations with RAMICS: The International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR). But publishing in that journal is neither required nor guaranteed for papers presented at the congress.

The full call for papers, general information about the Congress and updates can be found on the congress website, on Facebook, or get in touch at ramics@unwe.bg.