Peter Lang converts eleven journals to Open Access publications

As part of Peter Lang’s ongoing commitment to Open Access in academic publishing, the publisher today announced plans to transition eleven of its subscription-based scholarly jour­nals to full open access. Free online access to articles from these journals will be available on the new Open Access platform IngentaOpen, starting with each journal’s first issue of 2018. All content will continue to undergo a robust peer review process. A liberal CC-BY license will be applied to published articles, unless otherwise requested by authors.
The journals taking part in this initiative are:

Mediaevistik
International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology
Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik
Jahrbuch für Pädagogik
Literatur für Leser
Pädagogische Rundschau
Philology
Spiel – Neue Folge. Eine Zeitschrift zur Medienkultur
Variations
Zeitschrift für Germanistik
Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte

These developments follow the announcement of two pure Open Access journals, newly published by Peter Lang: «Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation» (first issue: 2017) and «Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education» (first issue: 2018).
Kelly Shergill, CEO of Peter Lang, says: «At Peter Lang, we believe that Open Access is the future of academic and scientific publishing and we are very pleased to be driving the growth of our Open Access portfolio. The transition of subscription journals into an Open Access publishing model is another step ahead...

Source: News from STM - March 9, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Editorial European Source Type: news