Published by UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center Press, AAPI Nexus is a national journal focusing on policies, practices and community research to benefit the nation’s burgeoning Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. AAPI Nexus draws from professional schools and applied social science scholars as well as practitioners and public policy advocates with the goal of reinvigorating Asian American Studies’ mission of serving communities and generating practical research.
The first issue was released in Fall 2003, and focused on community development. Since then, AAPI Nexus has published volumes dealing with Intersections in Education, Mental Health, Workforce issues and more. After a decade and a half of existence, AAPI Nexus will become an open-access journal, a move that we hope will increase the social and political value of our contributors. This means granting “free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship” (Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, June 20, 2003).