Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) have announced their partnership to launch a new, peer-reviewed, open access, thematic journal, for the history of science. A call for proposals for the first volume of BJHS Themes has been released, seeking thematic collections of papers that animate, provoke and inspire the scholarly community.
Each volume of the journal will be free to read online from the date of its publication. By launching the journal in this way, the BSHS and Cambridge will encourage widespread engagement with the important ideas each volume will present, stimulating public and scholarly debate that will enhance collective understanding of science in history. To fully promote onward exploration of each volume's theme, the journal will use a Creative Commons license that permits re-use and dissemination.
BJHS Themes' unique offering includes a rigorous pre-publication peer-review process, consistent with the top history journals, and the society will provide support to enable all authors, regardless of their funding status, to participate.
The deadline for receiving proposals for the first volume is December 31, 2014.
