An interdisciplinary online journal in the Open Access offering of Leipzig University
Since several years, Leipzig University Library offers members of Leipzig University a free service for the management and publication of electronic journals, based on the journal management and publication software Open Journal Systems (OJS). In this way, it supports researchers in setting up new open access journals or converting established publication series and journals to open access (OA).
Since July 2024, the long-established international OA journal Diffusion Fundamentals has been published in a new format through OJS. We took this occasion to talk to Dr. Christian Chmelik – Head of the Office of Student Affairs at the Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences, member of the Diffusion Fundamentals Editorial Board and responsible for the OA journal – about the journal’s long history and the experience of publishing it in open access.
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