[BOAI] PRESS RELEASE: Open Access Journal Economics now covered by the SSCI

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, via the GOAL
list.  --Peter Suber.]


 *Economics, the Open Access Journal, now covered by the SSCI*

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*Economics, the Kiel Institute’s open access e-journal, has moved up into
the champion’s league of economics journals. It is now being covered by the
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), with coverage going back to 2009.*

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*Kiel/Hamburg, January 23, 2012:* ****

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Economics was established by the Kiel Institute in 2007 as a journal with
several innovative features. For example, as it is freely accessible via
the Internet (i.e., is an open access journal), it is read by more people
than some traditional journals. Further, manuscripts that are submitted to
Economics are not only assessed using the traditional refereeing process,
but also, are assessed on line by readers (i.e., are subject to open
assessment). The decision whether to publish a manuscript can thus be made
much more quickly and in a very transparent manner. And last but not least,
Economics does not have to depend on a publishing house. It is disseminated
via the Internet by the Leibniz Information Center for Economics, which
runs its website and also disseminates it to numerous economics databases
and networks.****

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Kiel Institute President Dennis Snower feels that the inclusion of
Economics into the SSCI is proof “that new journals can also make it into
the circle of top journals,” and he is “particularly happy about this, as
Economics is a revolutionarily new type of journal whose open access and
open assessment features will stimulate the interplay between conducting
research and publishing.”****

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ZBW Director Klaus Tochtermann is “especially pleased that journals in the
Internet age no longer need to depend on traditional publishing houses in
order to be successful. What is more important now is knowing how to store
and disseminate information to economics databases and networks. And this
is where the ZBW comes in.”****

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The editorial board of Economics is comprised of internationally renowned
economists, including several Nobel Prize laureates. The articles published
in Economics, approx. 150 to date, have been included in all the leading
economics databases, such as EconLit, ECONIS, EBSCO, and REPEc. Economics
is also on Facebook,<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Economics-E-Journal/112331918839374?v=wall>
Twitter, <http://twitter.com/ej_economics> and Google
Plus.<https://plus.google.com/104127856397918923246/posts>
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*Link: *

Economics – The Open-Access Open-Assessment E-Journal:
www.economics-ejournal.org
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*About the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics:*

The ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is the world’s largest
information centre for economic literature with a national mandate, online
as well as offline. Today the institution holds more than 4 million volumes
and subscribes to 32,000 periodicals and journals. In addition, the ZBW
provides the fastest-growing collection of Open Access documents on the
internet: EconStor, <http://www.econstor.eu/> the digital publication
server, currently gives free access to more than 35,000 articles and
working papers. EconBiz, <http://www.econbiz.de> the search engine for
international economic information, allows students and researchers to
search among eight million datasets. The ZBW edits two journals in economic
policy, Wirtschaftsdienst and
Intereconomics,<http://www.intereconomics.eu/>and in cooperation with
the Kiel Institute for the World Economy produces
the Peer Review Journal Economics based on the principle of Open Access.
The ZBW is a member of the Leibniz Association and has been a foundation
under public law since 2007.****

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Press contact:****

DR. ANNA MARIA KÖCK
Press Relations Officer
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
Germany
T: +49 (0) 40. 428 34-359
F: +49 (0) 40. 428 34-299
E-mail <a.koeck at zbw.eu>****

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