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Publisher's statement

Hogrefe OpenMind – Your road to open access

by Dr. G.-Jürgen Hogrefe
CEO and Publisher, Hogrefe Publishing Group

We in the Hogrefe group have been publishing literature for the scientific and professional community for many decades and several generations. We have always tried to be close to – or even part of – the scientific, academic and professional communities with whom and for whom we publish, and at the same time have always had an open mind about how the information and research that we publish can be disseminated. In keeping with this, and with the increasing interest of the academic community in open access publishing models, I am pleased to announce that we can now offer authors of papers that have been accepted for publication in any of our journals a choice:

  • Open Access Publication
    Your article will be published with immediate open access, so that it is freely accessible online to anyone who wishes to read it (it will also appear in the print journal)
  • Traditional, Subscription-Based Publication
    Your article is published in the traditional manner, available to journal subscribers online and in print and to readers worldwide by pay-per-view

As most readers will be aware, publishing and distributing a journal article involves expenses at all stages during the review and publication process – these may start with costs of editorial office or online peer-review system and go right through copy-editing, typesetting, data preparation, online linking, hosting, and archiving. In the more traditional publishing model, journal subscriptions and online licenses cover these expenses. With open access publication, you the author or your funding body will be asked to pay a basic article fee to to cover the costs of the open access publication process.

How Hogrefe OpenMind Works

Once your article has been accepted for publication by the journal’s editorial team, it enters the production process. During this process, you will be sent galley proofs to approve the paper for publication and will be asked to sign a “Publication Release”. At this point you will have the option of having the paper published (a) using the traditional, subscription-based model or (b) as an open access article as part of Hogrefe’s OpenMind program.

Whichever publishing option you choose, your article will be treated the same way by Hogrefe and by the editorial team of the journal in which it is published. All articles will be peer-reviewed in the usual manner. The decision to accept or reject articles is made before you choose which form of publication you want. All accepted papers will be professionally produced and published both in print and in electronic versions of the journal. Every article will be given a DOI and registered with CrossRef.

As I mentioned earlier, publishing and distributing a journal article involves expenses at all stages during the review and publication process – these may start with expenses for the editorial office or online peer-review system and go right through copy-editing, typesetting, data preparation, online reference linking, printing and distribution of print issues, and hosting and archiving of electronic data. In the traditional publishing model, journal subscriptions cover these expenses. With open access publication, you the author or your funding body will be asked to pay a basic article fee of €2,500 or US $3,000, depending on where you are located. This fee is in the range that international experience has shown to be needed to cover the costs of the open access publication process.

This one-time-only article fee means that your article will be freely available via our online journal platform, with open access to anyone, anywhere in the world, at any time. Any reader will be able to search, download, archive, and distribute the article (provided this is for non-commercial purposes). In order to ensure that, no matter what others do with it, the article will continue to be attributed to you, its distribution and use will be covered by what we call the Hogrefe OpenMind License, which is identical to the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License Version 3.0. The full license is reproduced here and has also been published - as an open access article - in European Psychologist (2009), 14, http://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/a000001, but in summary it means – to quote Creative Commons – that:

Readers, and you, are free:

  • To Share — to copy, distribute, and transmit the work
  • To Remix — to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

  • Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
  • Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Nothing in the license impairs or restricts the author’s moral rights.

Further details about Hogrefe OpenMind are provided at http://econtent.hogrefe.com/openmind.

As an author you can choose between traditional or open access publication – we have an open mind!