Wissenschaftliche Zeitschriften

Manuscripts submitted to our journals GAIA, TATuP and Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning are subject to peer review including independent external reviewers. The purpose of peer review is to assist the Editorial Boards in making editorial decisions; it may also assist the author(s) in improving their manuscripts. Specific peer review policies and processes are detailed on the journal websites.
 

oekom supports Open Access and thus the goal of the widest possible dissemination of scientific content.

We are a signatory of the Budapest Open Access Initiative which supports open access to peer-reviewed journal literature through a) Self-archiving (Green Open Access) and b) Open-access journals (Gold or Diamond Open Access).

For our journals, we offer different options in order to make open access work ­– from Diamond to Green Open Access.
The different options ensure that the publisher’s costs for services such as the organisation of the peer review process, typesetting, copyediting, online publication, distribution, or long term archiving are met. Please take a look at the Open Access Policies for our journals GAIA, Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning and TATuP.

In any case, authors retain copyright for their articles.

We fully support and encourage author self-archiving of all content without an embargo period. Our journals are registered with SHERPA/RoMEO to ensure that the license terms and self-archiving policies are fully transparent.

The full open access journals TATuP and Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning are indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and have been awarded the DOAJ Seal. The DOAJ Seal is given to journals that demonstrate best practice in open access publishing. Only around 10 % of journals indexed in DOAJ have been awarded the DOAJ Seal.

The Open Access Policies of our scientific journals meet the requirements of most national and international research funders. You can find out which Open Access Policies are supported by your funder by using the Journal Checker Tool.

Do you need further advice? We will be happy to assist.

In all of our scientific journals, authors retain copyright for their articles.

All articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license, guaranteeing that anyone can freely use, reuse and share the articles.

Articles in GAIA, TATuP and Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning are published under a Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0 Under this license, anyone may access, copy, distribute, or reuse these articles, as long as the author and original source are properly cited.

Articles in Ökologisches Wirtschaften are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Under this license, anyone is free to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format under the following conditions. You must give appropriate credit to source and author, you may not use the material for commercial purposes, and if you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

All articles published in our scientific journals are indexed with Crossref and receive a digital object identifier (DOI).

They are made publicly available via the Initiative for Open Citations. This means that all references are made available so that citations can be tracked by the publishing community. In addition, the content is added to the plagiarism checker Similarity Check powered by iThenticate.

For long-term preservation, we archive and preserve digital copies of all journal content with CLOCKSS, Portico or PKP PN.

When you publish in oekom journals, your work will be indexed in common and easily discoverable databases. The full open access journals TATuP and Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning are indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
GAIA, Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning and TATuP are also indexed in Scopus.
GAIA and Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning are also indexed in the Web of Science.

Publication Ethics

oekom journals are committed to reach the highest standards in publication ethics.

The journals’ Publication Ethics Statements outline the codes of conduct for editorial and scientific advisory board members, for the editorial office, authors, peer reviewers and the publishing house. The statements present the journals’ policies on authorship, on intellectual property, on handling competing interests as well as complaints and appeals. They describe options for post-publication discussions and corrections as well as processes for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct.

Journal policies support and are consistent with the Core Practices developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Our journals Raumforschund und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning as well as TATuP are members of COPE.

You can take a look at the Publication Ethics Statements of GAIA, Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning and TATuP.

Transparency regarding price and services

In order to respond to calls for more standard, transparent, and granual price and service information, we have provided up-to-date price and service data to the Journal Comparison Service.

Journal transfer code of practice

We support and adhere to the NISO Transfer Code of Practice, which ensures that librarians, editors and other publishers are informed and treated fairly when a journal is transferred between publishers.

Research integrity at oekom

You will find more information on oekom’s commitment to research integrity.

Our journals publish special issues or focus sections only with well-known researchers in their field. Please contact the editorial offices of the journals GAIA, TATuP, Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning.

Do you want to submit an article to one of our journals? Or do you need specific information on the journal services and policies mentioned above?

Please visit the journal homepages:

tatup.de

rur.oekom.de

gaia.oekom.de

oekologisches-wirtschaften.de

The above policies apply only in part to articles in Ökologisches Wirtschaften. Please visit the journal website for more information.