Academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan has announced the launch of Palgrave Communications, a high quality open access (OA) online-only, multidisciplinary journal which will publish original research in all areas of the humanities, the social sciences and business.
The journal has been launched in response to demand from academics in the humanities and social sciences. In a global survey, 84 percent said that they would publish OA if the best or most appropriate journal were OA, and 68 percent thought that their specific area of interest would benefit from journals that publish peer-reviewed OA.
Palgrave Communications will publish top-quality peer-reviewed research in all areas of the humanities, the social sciences and business, split by mega-section. The new journal will champion, and particularly welcome interdisciplinary research, fostering interaction, creativity and reflection within and between disciplines.
Palgrave Communications will offer immediate, free online dissemination via a CC-BY license, and is committed to speedy acceptance and review of high quality original research. The call for submissions has begun.
The journal is led by a large international, cross-disciplinary Editorial Board of leading researchers.
As a born-digital project, Palgrave Communications will offer authors an enhanced digital publishing experience with industry-leading features such as Altmetrics, and enhanced layout and navigation including incorporation of figures, tables, video, multimedia and supplementary information. The new journal is one of the first titles to launch on a new publishing platform created specifically for open access publication. There will also be no restriction on word limits: all articles that conform to the required editorial standards of the journal will be published regardless of length.
