E-journal hosting
Open-source infrastructure for academic journals
avldigital.de offers editors from the comparative research community a free hosting service for Open Access journals and other regularly published digital publications, such as working papers or series, based on the software Open Journal Systems (OJS).
Would you like to give an existing journal a new, modern, and easy-to-maintain appearance? Or do you have an idea for a new publication series? We are happy to provide in-depth advice!
What are the benefits of the hosting service?
With our OJS hosting service, we offer a range of services to assist you in establishing a state-of-the-art online journal:
- Technical provision, maintenance, and regular updates of OJS on a permanently available server.
- Consultation and practical support in the conceptual design and setup of the journal(s) regarding...
- the website layout (selection and arrangement of content)
- editorial workflows
- web design
- indexing of the journal (e.g., regarding an interface to the Directory of Open Access Journals)
- Provision of a DOI namespace for the journal as well as procedures for the automatic registration of new submissions.
- Consultation and practical support in making journal content discoverable in library catalogs, BASE, and similar platforms to increase visibility.
- Indexing in the catalog index of avldigital.de
- No costs – the hosting service is funded by grants of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) grants and operated by the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg.
- Contractual guarantee of journal hosting beyond the duration of our project funding.
Open Journal Systems (OJS) – what is it?
Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a web-based platform for online journals. OJS is developed by the Public Knowledge Project as open-source software. More than 10,000 journals worldwide are operated on this platform. The software allows the entire editorial review and publication process of an electronic journal to be mapped in a browser-based interface, including peer-review procedures, correction cycles, and much more.
Detailed information about OJS can be found on the website of the German network OJS-de.net.
Which journals use our hosting service?
The following e-journals make use of the hosting service from avldigital.de.
ISSN: 1864-8533
In addition to the traditional core fields within Comparative Literature and the history of European literature, this online journal places particular emphasis on newer approaches to cultural theory from the international sphere. Apart from this, Komparatistik Online is mostly devoted to a productive exchange between the fields of literature, fine arts, and music (comparative arts and inter-arts) and the aesthetic foundations of intermedial works which blur the boundaries of and move between various media
In addition, its articles are meant to contribute to an understanding of non-European literature and culture, of global networking and the situation in the post-colonial world.
Intercultural and imagological questions constitute an additional and significant research area. Special issues on specific current topics are in the planning phase, and plans also call for the regular publication of relevant research articles on individual topics.
In addition, special attention is paid to worthwhile new publications in Comparative Literature and related interdisciplinary fields in a separate section with book reviews.
ISSN: 1019-1976
RISS. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, sometimes published with the subtitle "(Freud – Lacan)", was founded by Peter Widmer in 1986 in Switzerland as an international journal for the German-speaking Lacanian field. It was later published, among others, by the publishers Turia + Kant (1998–2013) and, most recently (2018–2023), by the Textem Verlag.