Open Science

"So you’ve decided to launch an open access journal in the humanities – congratulations! You must already have some ideas about how to make it a valuable, strong and widely read title. Besides the obvious – coming up with the right scope, maintaining high editorial and publishing standards, and attracting good content – another crucial factor leading to success is proper promotion. And a big part of this process is the inclusion of the journal in appropriate abstracting and indexing services. You might associate these sources of scholarly information mostly with publications in science, technology and medicine, but the truth is that these services are becoming also more and more important in the fields of social sciences and humanities. Especially since academic publishing is a crowded and thus a highly competitive environment. Simply put: if you want to give your content the opportunity to be read (and cited!), and if you want to attract more manuscripts, you have to make sure it is visible ..."