Information For Authors

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Budrich Journals is the online platform for the scientific journals of Verlag Barbara Budrich from the fields of Education, Gender Studies, Methodological Research, Politics/Civic Education, Social Work and Society.

You are already an author of our publishing house or you are interested in a publication in one of our more than 20 scholarly journals? We would like to inform you (errors and omissions excepted) about our service and the benefits for you as an author.

» Author discount
As an author of one of our journals, you are entitled to our author discount of 10% on journal issues and subscriptions and 30% on all book publications. To receive the discount on printed and digital books and journals, simply create an user account in our online shop and send an e-mail to Karen Reinfeld. We will then deposit the discount for your account. The currently valid author discount will be taken into account when invoicing.

» Editorial Work
Peer Review:
Most of our journals go through a (usually double-blind) peer review process. This ensures additional quality assurance of your publication. You can find more information about this on the page of the respective journal.

Contact to the Editorial Boards:
At Budrich Journals we provide you with the contact details of the (externally working) editorial offices of our journals as well as information for authors and for the submission of articles. You will find this information on the landing page of the respective journal.

» Visibility for your Article
Budrich Journals:
Our German and English language journals on Budrich Journals have a national and international readership. With publication in one of our journals, your individual contribution becomes visible for all visitors of Budrich Journals, for all (private and institutional) subscribers of our journals as well as for global scientific research.

Crossref:
We cooperate with Crossref, the largest registration agency for Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) of the International DOI Foundation. Crossref creates permanent and worldwide online citation links between scientific literature and enables the transfer of the metadata of your article registered by us to search services, bibliographic management software, library systems, subject databases etc. through APIs. The DOI and the linking to the landing pages of your single contribution on Budrich Journals ensures a clear and permanent identification as well as worldwide accessibility and guaranteed findability of the same. This way you get the opportunity to become more visible in the worldwide scientific research. Please contact us if you would like to learn more about Crossref.

Marketing:
Through various marketing activities of our publishing house your individual contribution will be advertised together with the respective journal.

» Open Access
Golden and Green Open Access at Budrich Journals:
You have the possibility to publish your individual contribution at Budrich Journals in Open Access – either directly with the publication of the respective issue (Golden Open Access) or with a waiting period (Green Open Access). For more information, please refer to the item after next (Open Express).

Journals in Open Access:
The journals Erziehungswissenschaft, Exposé – Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliches Schreiben und Publizieren, GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, Kieler sozialwissenschaftliche Revue, Soziologiemagazin und ZRex – Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusforschung are published in (diamond) Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. You may freely use the published articles under the conditions of the mentioned license. There is no exclusive transfer of exploitation rights („copyright transfer“) to the journal or the publisher. The authors will not be charged any costs for publication (so-called article processing charges) or submission (so-called submission charges).

Open Express:
We have developed our Open Express offer for our authors: If you wish, we can provide the print version of your scholarly article for Open Access for a one-time author's fee of 799,00 EUR within the first year after the date of publication and 199,00 EUR after 12 months after the date of publication. Your institution may be responsible for funding the Open Access fees incurred. Further information on the Open Access representatives of German universities and research institutions can be found at the oa.atlas of the the project open-access.network. Please contact us in case of any further questions about our Open Express offer.

Preprint Version/Original Manuscript Version:
As an author, you are allowed to publish the preprint version/original manuscript version of your individual contribution on digital scientific platforms, your personal website or the website of your institute and/or to archive it in scientific repositories at any time after the initial publication at Verlag Barbara Budrich.

Open Access Repositories:
We cooperate with two of the most important Open Access repositories in the field of educational and social sciences: peDOCS and SSOAR. We are also partners of GenderOpen and EconStor.

Creative Commons Licence:
All Open Access content of the journals of Verlag Barbara Budrich published as of 01.01.2021 is authorized by a CC BY 4.0 license. This license includes dissemination, electronic storage, editing and reproduction, if: (a) information on the copyrights, the license and reference to editing are appropriately provided.

[valid until end of 2020: CC BY-SA 4.0]
[valid until early 2018: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0]

» PDF of your Single Contribution & Online Access for Authors
Your Single Contribution as PDF:
We are happy to provide the authors of our journals with the printed version of their individual articles as PDF files for private use (personal archive, applications, etc.) via e-mail. Please contact us for this purpose.

Online Access for Authors
If you wish, we can also register you for free and temporary online access to the journal in which your individual contribution was published. With this access you can easily download your single article (as well as all other single articles of the respective journal) as PDF. A short e-mail (please indicate the journal and issues as well as your individual contribution) to us is sufficient. You will receive the login data by e-mail.

Further Information on Registration:
Further information on how to register with one of our journals can be found here.

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