About the Journal

Focus and Scope

querelles-net taps the vast range of specialised, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary publications in the field of women's and gender studies, in particular from the German-speaking realm. Academic reviews inform about important new publications and current issues of research. Both printed and electronically published works will be reviewed.

We consider reviews an effective means of enhancing this field of research, in terms of both visibility and reputation. Another objective is to foster the network of researchers. At querelle-net, academic reviews serve not merely to inform, but are regarded as autonomous contributions, in which research results are positioned and contextualised. At the same time, by choosing this form of publication, new technical and legal possibilities shall be explored and tested in an exemplary way.

querelles-net is part of the funding programme for gender studies of the Freie Universität Berlin.

querelles-net is an open access journal. Reviews can be viewed for free. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print and link content of this site without having to obtain the authors' or the journal's permission.

Peer Review Process

All submitted reviews will be peer-reviewed by our editorial board. At least two people from our editorial team will assess the anonymised texts and give written recommendations that will be sent to the authors. In special cases, we may ask for an external double-blind evaluation.

Publication Frequency

Reviews will be published on a continuous basis. Four times a year, texts will be combined to form an issue. If you are on our mailing list, we will inform you about the newest editions.

Open Access Policy

querelles-net is an open access magazine. Since our very first edition in 2000, users have been able to read all articles for free and without any other barriers.

 At the end of each text you find a license note, informing about the open access status and the license used.

 From 2016 on, all texts in querelles-net will be published under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (license contract, 'Commons Deed'). From 2009 to 2015, all texts were published under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Deutschland (license contract, 'Commons Deed'). Under the terms of this license, texts can be used freely, in particular read, downloaded, copied, distributed (also included in other journals or compilations), printed, linked, revised and translated.

 The texts published between 2000 and 2009 can be used for free as well. If no Creative Commons License has been given, please contact the author for any further right of use, particularly concerning republication or forms of revising the texts.

 Authors of querelles-net have permitted publication of their texts under the terms of a CC-BY license. There has been no exclusive copyright transfer to the jourmal.

Costs of publication

Publication at querelles-net is free. There is no submission or publication fee.

Indexing

querelles-net is indexed in a number of data bases, e.g. in the Directory of Open Access Journals, BASE, Google Scholar and JURN.

Legal notice

Institution

Freie Universität Berlin -

represented by its president, Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt

Address:

Kaiserswerther Straße 16/18,

14195 Berlin

Legal form

The Freie Universität Berlin is a public body in terms of §§ 1 and 2 of the Berliner Hochschulgesetz (BerlHG) (Berlin Higher Education Act).

Address of the editorial office:

Redaktion querelles-net, Margherita-von-Brentano-Zentrum, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

E-mail: redaktion@querelles-net.de

Sources of Support

querelles-net is hosted by the Center of Digital Systems (DeDiS) of Freie Universität Berlin.

We thank CeDiS for its support. We wish to thank in particular Božana Bokan, Katja Mruck, and Bärbel Reißmann for their active support in the process of converting querelles-net to OJS.

Journal History

querelles-net was founded in 2000 as an online offshoot to Querelles. Jahrbuch für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (Annual Journal on Women's and Gender Studies), covering the review section. From its beginnings, all texts have been available for free for everyone. In 2009, querelles-net became an open access journal. Contributions are published under the terms of the free license CC BY, and are edited and published by means of the open source editorial system Open Journal Systems.