Centaurus JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE to become fully Open Access in 2022

NEW deadline: 31 March 2022

• Introduction
• Background
• Subcribe-to-Open
• Benefits for subscribing libraries
• Other key features
• Editorial Executive Team
• Editorial Background & Stylesheet Guidelines
• Forthcoming Issues
• Press Statements
• Video Presentation

Introduction

The European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) and Brepols announce a partnership to publish the Society’s flagship journal Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science fully in Open Access from 2022 onwards, at no cost to the authors or readers.

Background

Until 2021 Centaurus. An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects was published by Wiley as the official journal of the ESHS. As the collaboration ended with Wiley in 2021, the ESHS and Brepols have decided to relaunch Centaurus, with the same editorial team, scope, and principles. Together, Brepols and the ESHS have the aim of publishing Centaurus fully Open Access through the fair and inclusive Subscribe-to-Open publishing model. Subscriptions will be available at a significantly lower rate, together with other benefits for participating libraries. We invite you to discover these benefits, along with more details, below.

Subscribe-to-Open

Subscribe-to-Open is a Coalition-S endorsed solution for sustainable and equitable open access publishing that provides an alternative to article processing charges (APCs), the mechanism used by most open access journals. It uses existing library relationships and subscriptions to convert gated journals to open access. Institutions simply subscribe or renew their subscriptions – there are no additional processes – and as long as subscription revenues are sustainable, the year’s issues are published open access.

Benefits for subscribing libraries

Libraries and institutions interested in subscribing to Centaurus can contact: periodicals@brepols.net

Libraries that confirm their subscription until 31 March 2022 will benefit from:

Reduced subscription prices (the journal will be published in 4 issues per year):

• Print & Online: € 368 excl. VAT (instead of € 402 excl. VAT) - including shipping
• Online only: € 316 excl. VAT (instead of € 350 excl. VAT)

Free read-only access to the online archive of ARCHEION – Archivo de Historia de la Ciencia (1919-1943)

Other key features

• The journal will stay loyal to the ESHS’s aim to promote European cooperation in the field of the History of Science understood in the broadest sense (see the ESHS website for more information)
• The journal will be hosted on www.brepolsonline.net, using state-of-the-art content hosting technology
• The journal will be listed on all relevant Open Access directories (DOAJ etc.), as well as journal ranking tools.
• The journal will be published according to Brepols’ financial transparency policy
• Brepols is participant in the Subscribe-to-Open Community of Practice: subscribetoopencommunity.org

Authors are invited to submit their articles here: www.manuscriptmanager.net/centaurus

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

• KOEN VERMEIR, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique /Université de Paris

Deputy Editor

• JONATHAN REGIER, Venice University

Associate Editors

• KIM HAJEK, Leiden University
• SIETSKE FRANSEN, Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History
• JÉRÔME BAUDRY, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
• DANIELA HELBIG, University of Sydney

Book Review Editors

• NOEMÍ PIZARROSO LÓPEZ, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - UNED
• MIHNEA DOBRE, The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest – ICUB

Communications Editor

• BARNABY HUTCHINS, Alpen-Adria University

Editorial Advisory Board

• JULIANA ADELMAN (Dublin City University, Ireland)
• STATHIS ARAPOSTATHIS (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
• MITCHELL G. ASH (University of Vienna, Austria)
• BRITA BRENNA (University of Oslo, Norway)
• LINO CAMPRUBI (University of Sevilla)
• ANA CARNEIRO (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• ERICA CHARTERS (Oxford University, UK)
• RAF DE BONT (Maastricht University)
• KARL HALL (CEU, Hungary)
• URSULA KLEIN (MPIWG, Germany)
• THOMAS MOREL (ESPE Lille Nord de France, France)
• OMAR NASIM (Regensburg University, Germany)
• AGUSTI NIETO-GALAN (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelon, Spain)
• MARIA RENTETZI (Technical University Berlin, Germany & National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
• IRINA SIROTKINA (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
• CHRISTINA THOMSEN THÖRNQVIST (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
• JOHN TRESCH (Warburg Institute, UK)
• KARIN TYBJERG (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• KOEN VERMEIR (CNRS, France), Chair of the Board

Editorial Background & Stylesheet Guidelines

All articles in the journal Centaurus are evaluated by an Editorial Board, strictly on academic grounds, based on reports prepared by referees who have been commissioned by virtue of their specialism in the appropriate field. The Board ensures that the screening is done independently and without conflicts of interest. The definitive texts supplied by authors are also subject to review by the Board before being approved for publication.

Authors are welcome to submit any original manuscript that fits the aims and scope of Centaurus and is not submitted elsewhere. First submissions do not yet need to be prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines.

Press statements

"We are thrilled to relaunch Centaurus, the official journal of ESHS, in partnership with Brepols, a distinguished publisher in the field of history of science. Our journal plays a central role in the life of our Society and is indispensable in fostering and disseminating excellent historical research on past science and related cultural practices. Our joint endeavor with Brepols is meant to turn Centaurus into a fully Open Access journal, at no cost to its authors, and, thereby, to make it freely accessible to the worldwide history of science community."

Theodore Arabatzis, President of the European Society for the History of Science

"We are very honoured to partner with the ESHS to publish their prestigious journal Centaurus. It is our mission to deliver highquality services and content, for the widest readership possible, at the lowest cost to the academic community. We believe Subscribe-to-Open can fulfill this mission and become a fair and inclusive route to Open Access. For this, we count on the support and loyalty of libraries and institutes worldwide, to create a solid Open Access funding alternative for the humanities."

Paul De Jongh, Managing Director of Brepols

Video Presentation