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by Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director
The impact on authorship and readership that Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open has had since the launch of the pilot has been substantial. There has been a 700% increase in downloads from 2019 when content was paywalled to 2022. We have seen a 200% increase by the end of 2022 from the end of 2020.
We are thrilled to be at the 2022 American Anthropological Association annual meeting (Seattle, November 9-13). We’re marking the occasion with some very special prices and free access to selected journals.
ANNOUNCING: Reading Against Racism a Berghahn Collection
Following an initial proposal for lasting solidarity in June of 2020, Berghahn Books committed to joining the global academic community and our publishing peers in challenging racism. Since then, we have fostered company-wide conversations on how best to contribute in perpetuity to that cause from the vantage point of our publishing program.
Through establishing a new collection titled Reading Against Racism: A Berghahn Collection, we have committed to increasing the visibility of and access to materials which contribute to ongoing conversations surrounding race and racism.
Here, a growing collection –– international in scope –– hosts contributions from our global community and is freely available as part of an expanded Digital Resources section to help further activity in vital areas of scholarship.
As we settle into a new academic year, we encourage you to use this as a teaching and learning resource, in or outside the classroom, or as a tool to continue your independent education.
Teachers, consider sharing this with your students. Students, consider this for your academic research. Individuals, consider adding this to your reading list or book club.
To coincide with the release of Reading Against Racism, our newest Salon B podcast episode features four interviews with writers included in the collection. This podcast episode thus serves as a friendly, informal introduction to the collection itself and a few of the individuals whose scholarly work has made this effort possible. Listen via the link below.
Reading Against Racism includes chapters and articles from the following works published by Berghahn Books and Berghahn Journals.
by Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director
In 2021 Berghahn Open Anthro entered its second year as a ground-breaking three-year pilot. In this two-part blog post we will share how its journey has brought together various stakeholders to realize the goal of attaining an equitable path to open access using the subscribe-to-open (S2O) model.
Our intention is to outline how stakeholders have supported the pilot: as a researcher by urging their library to maintain subscriptions for the journals they value as a reader and author; as a librarian by advocating that budgets remain allocated to those journal(s) in order to support their faculty needs; as a funder by endorsing the model and channeling block grant funds to supplement strained library resources; and as a publisher considering their next steps for open access, by implementing the model for those journals that fit.
These actions all contribute to furthering a model that offers a path to open access that can be sustainable, especially for journals in the social sciences and humanities, with this kind of ongoing support.
In Part I of this post, we first set out the broader open access publishing environment a publisher like Berghahn finds itself in and how and why the APC-free solution of S2O resonated. We will then share the range and forms of librarian participation and researcher support this model draws from. Finally, in Part II, we will share the disciplinary foundations of our particular pilot and conclude with an update on where we are now and where we should all be headed.
Berghahn Books supports practical Open Access policies that help make scholarship available to a broader audience in a sustainable way.
In addition to offering gold open access options that uphold publication mandates instituted by our authors’ funding partners, we also participate in initiatives, such as Knowledge Unlatched, which provide collective funding opportunities for selected titles.
Additional information regarding our open access policies can be found here, under the “Open Access” tab. If open access status is required for your publication, please contact your Berghahn editor.
Berghahn Journals is delighted to announce the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (AJEC)Blog! This blog will highlight the research of authors published in AJEC by giving them space to reflect on different aspects of their research and include photos and stories not included in their scholarly journal article. It will additionally introduce readers to the editors of the Journal by way of short interviews, giving readers insight into the AJEC and giving the editors opportunity to offer sage advice on the submission process, particularly for early career anthropologists. Read More
To kick off the blog, the first post is an interview with Ullrich Kockel. Professor Kockel has been an editor of AJEC for over a decade. In this interview, he reflects on his experience editing AJEC.
We are pleased to announce that Berghahn Journals has launched a streamlined redesign of our online journals platform. The new site features a cleaner, clearer layout designed to guide readers to articles and keep the emphasis on the high-quality content published by our journals. In addition, Librarians and Authors will now be able to easily find answers to any questions they may have in the updated Resources section.
It is with real pleasure, but also with a little apprehension, that I introduce myself as the new editor of Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. It is a very important and critical time for gender scholars, and I want to use this piece as a general announcement of this change in, or addition to, in editorship and the future direction, I would like to take the journal in.
Over the past few months, I have been in conversation with current editor Diederik Janssen and the publishers about becoming more involved in the journal in an editorial capacity. I have sat on the editorial board for a number of years and I am pleased to announce that from the next volume, my role will become one of editor.
As one of the founding editors, Diederik Janssen has been involved in the journal since its inception in 2007. In 2015 he oversaw a move for the journal between publishers (The Men’s Studies Press to Berghahn Books) and a name change (Thymos to its current title). Diederik has recently embarked on the onerous task of completing a doctorate and with all the hurdles and extra work this brings, it seemed an ideal time to come onboard as an extra pair of hands to share the load and to help the journal grow in readership and submissions. Diederik will continue in a new role as managing editor. Continue reading “INTRODUCING MICHAEL R.M. WARD AS THE NEW EDITOR OF BOYHOOD STUDIES” →
It is with real pleasure, but also with a little apprehension, that I introduce myself as the new editor of