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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Economics, the Open
Access Journal, now covered by the SSCI<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Kiel/Hamburg, January 23, 2012:</span></font></i><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Economics was established by the Kiel Institute in
2007 as a journal with several innovative features. </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The editorial board of Economics is comprised of
internationally renowned economists, including several Nobel Prize laureates. </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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 <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Economics-E-Journal/112331918839374?v=wall"
title="External link opens within this window">Facebook,</a> <a
href="http://twitter.com/ej_economics"
title="External link opens within this window">Twitter,</a> and <a
href="https://plus.google.com/104127856397918923246/posts"
title="External link opens within this window">Google Plus.</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Link: <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Economics – The Open-Access Open-Assessment
E-Journal: </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.economics-ejournal.org"
title="External link opens within this window"><span lang=EN-GB>www.economics-ejournal.org
</span></a></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>About the ZBW – Leibniz Information
Centre for Economics:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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: <a href="http://www.econstor.eu/"
title="External link opens within this window">EconStor,</a> the digital
publication server, currently gives free access to more than 35,000 articles
and working papers. <a href="http://www.econbiz.de"
title="External link opens within this window">EconBiz,</a> 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 <a href="http://www.intereconomics.eu/"
title="External link opens within this window">Intereconomics,</a> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Press contact:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>DR. ANNA MARIA KÖCK<br>
Press Relations Officer<br>
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics<br>
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 <br>
20354 Hamburg <br>
Germany <br>
T: +49 (0) 40. 428 34-359 <br>
F: +49 (0) 40. 428 34-299 <br>
<a href="mailto:a.koeck@zbw.eu">E-mail</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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