Open Gender Journal – expansion grant

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Martin Lücke; Professorin Dr. Susanne Völker
• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research ; Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 471748397

Open Gender Journal is an Open Access journal that enables authors to publish quality-assured original contributions in a decidedly interdisciplinary publication venue. Launched in 2017, the journal features contributions from intersectional gender studies. Due to the explicit thematic openness and the choice of a continuous publication frequency, it is possible to submit contributions to the publication at any time. In addition, the journal enables quality-assured (double-blind peer review) publication of conference contributions. The editorial team is composed of academics from different disciplines, status groups and institutions. It thus reflects the inter- and transdisciplinarity of gender studies and the diversity in the field. The publisher independent journal is published by the Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien (Gender Studies Association) together with three gender research institutions: The Margherita von Brentano Center at Freie Universität Berlin, the central institution GeStiK (Gender Studies in Cologne) at the University of Cologne, the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Gender Research Office, University Vienna. Through their involvement, the participating institutions are committed to free and unrestricted access to gender studies and the further development of the field’s publication habits. Open Gender Journal aims to meet international standards and current developments in the field of electronic publishing. Beyond that, however, it is also interested in critically examining power relations and exclusions through scholarly publication. The journal is therefore committed to free and unrestricted access to gender studies: All contributions are accessible to readers worldwide free of charge, free licenses (Creative Commons BY 4.0) guarantee that the content can be distributed and reused, and authors do not incur any publication costs. The aim of the project is to further establish the journal as an attractive publication venue for gender studies. To this end, (1.) editorial workflows are to be improved and services expanded, (2.) the existing financing and governance models are to be made more stable in organizational terms, (3.) the procedure for publishing Open Gender Collections in the context of the journal is to be expanded, and (4.) a target group-specific publicity concept for the journal is to be developed from which authors also benefit.

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)