About the journal

Aims and scope

Ethnoscripts, founded in 1999, is a peer-reviewed and fully Open Access anthropological academic journal that engages with contemporary issues and debates. Ethnoscripts is published by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. The journal publishes Special Issues on specific topics once per year. Articles are published in both German and English. Each issue focuses on a thematic topic related to theoretical approaches and ethnographic studies in contemporary Anthropology. Exemplary key topics covered in Ethnoscripts include "Dating Apps", "Jewish Cultural Heritage", "Sharing", “Ethnographic Writing” or "Governance".

In addition to thematic Special Issues, Ethnoscripts features regular sections that appear as needed. The section Think Pieces presents short thought-provoking essays that engage critically with contemporary debates, trends, or controversies. In addition Ethnoscripts publishes reviews, obituaries, and eventually interviews, research and conference reports, and more.

Calls for papers for the Special Issues and the Think Pieces are announced in the newsletter and in the journal's announcements, but also through anthropological mailing lists. Register with the journal to receive email notifications of future Special Issues and other announcements.

Full Open Access aligns with our understanding of how academic discussions can and should be structured.

Previous print editions/Archive

From volume 16 onwards
All articles from volume 16 onwards, starting with the year 2014, are published under the open access license CC BY-SA 4.0 on the journal's platform.

Vol. 1-15
Volumes 1-15 from the years 1999-2013 are only available as printed editions. These volumes are gradually being uploaded and will also be made available as an Open Access archive in the future. The articles are not freely accessible and are not published according to the journal's current open access standard.

Former as well as current volumes / issues of the journal can also be ordered and purchased in print edition by sending an email to verein.fuer.ethnologie@uni-hamburg.de

Funding

Ethnoscripts is being funded by KOALA (Konsortiale Open-Access-Lösungen aufbauen = Build consortial open access solutions). This initiative organized by the SLUB Dresden offers libraries, research institutions, foundations, companies, and individuals the opportunity to establish collaborative funding models for open access journals and book series, based on fairness, transparency, and reliability.

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

This journal is a pure open access journal. The journal does not charge neither article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges. For authors, neither the submission nor the publication of articles in the journal incurs any costs. This is also apparent to potential authors under the menu item Submit article.

Publication frequency

The journal publishes one issue per calendar year in October/November. The average time from submission to publication is ca. 32 weeks.

Editorial team

All editorial operations are entirely in the hands of the participating scholars (scholar-led publishing). The editorial team is free from any external influence. All members of the editorial team undertake to comply with the journal's ethical guidelines.

Archiving

All articles published by the journal are deposited on the archive server of the German National Library (DNB) and referenced in the DNB catalog. Hamburg University Press, the publishing house of the Hamburg State and University Library, holds all published volumes and articles in a sustainable manner.

Additionally, this journal participates in the PKP Preservation Network. This means that all content of the journal is archived within a private LOCKSS network. New content from the journal is automatically harvested. After a "trigger event" - either a clear message from the journal manager or the cessation of deliveries - the content is made available through the OJS instances of one or more LOCKSS partners.
INFO: LOCKSS is an acronym for "Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Save." The LOCKSS initiative is based on the premise that no single institution can provide long-term preservation. Therefore, this project consists of a cooperation of several libraries. The project was initiated and continued by the Stanford University Libraries. The LOCKSS software is open source.

Hamburg University Press

The journal is implemented as part of the publication services of Hamburg University Press and is hosted on the publisher's server.

Hamburg University Press is the open access publishing service of the Hamburg State and University Library (SUB). The publisher offers scholarly publication services. These include, in particular, the hosting of peer-reviewed open access journals along with consulting and support for their implementation, as well as the publication of books in both print and digital form (Gold Open Access).