Open Gender Journal – consolidation (Continuation application)

• Applicant: Dr. Heike Pantelmann
• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research ; Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 561497382

Open Gender Journal is an Open Access journal that enables authors to publish quality-assured original contributions in a decidedly interdisciplinary publication venue since 2017. Annual and special issues of the journal publish double-blind peer-reviewed research articles as well as editorially reviewed debates and reviews from the field of 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. 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 consolidate the Open Gender Journal by raising its profile and further stabilizing its work processes according to the state of the art in scientific Open Access publishing. Within the framework of the continuation application, process-oriented and data-based publishing, international networking, and innovative workflows will be addressed as fields of action, which have emerged from the results and findings of the first project phase (Open Gender Journal - expansion grant, duration 7/2022-10/2024).

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