On 12 March 2008, the first issue of Sydney Journal was published, online at UTS ePress. Sydney Journal is an academic history journal which forms a part of the Dictionary of Sydney project. It contains essays and entries written for the Dictionary, in a more academic format and with the quality guaranteed by the full process of peer review for longer articles.

Sydney Journal 1 contains four major essays, six cultural group essays and five suburb articles, to give a real feel for the richness of the work being done for the Dictionary. When this text goes online with the Dictionary though, it will be fully illustrated and incorporate sound, film, maps and links to other material. All Sydney Journal content is freely available to readers anywhere in the world.

Sydney Journal is hosted by UTS ePress and produced using the Open Journal System (OJS) which enables the Dictionary of Sydney editor, Emma Grahame, to manage all the peer reviewing, maintain complete email records, control versions, copy edit and lay out  herself. OJS is open source software developed by the Public Knowledge Project, run by a consortium of North American universities. Many new and existing journals are now being published using the software, which is making a significant contribution to public scholarship worldwide.To see the first issue, go to http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/sydney_journal