“Energeia” now on HOPE

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The Open-Access-Journal for linguistics and philosophy of language in Romance studies is now available on the open journal platform HOPE.

In March 2022, an Open Access pioneer moved to the University of Zurich’s journal platform HOPE. “Energeia” is a multilingual journal for linguistics and philosophy of language in Romance studies. When it was founded in Tübingen in 2009, it was one of the earliest linguistic open access publications. 

The journal’s founder and editor is Johannes Kabatek. Since 2013, he has been Professor of Romance Philology with a special focus on Ibero-Romance linguistics at UZH’s Romanisches Seminar. He moved “Energeia” with him from Tübingen to Zurich, and after a few years of beauty sleep, the sixth issue was published last year. New life was breathed into the journal in the course of the Swiss National Science Foundation project “Beyond Structuralism”. It is an important publication organ in the historico-scientific documentation and research of the estate of the influential Romance philologist and linguist Eugenio Coseriu. 

Labourious migration

Over the past two months, the editorial team – Cristina Bleorțu, Manuela Crivelli, Yoselin Henriques Pestana, Dominik Martínez and Johannes Kabatek – has prepared “Energeia” for its new publication environment. In a major effort, it migrated the entire archive, provided it with metadata and persistent identifiers and prepared the online launch of the journal.  

“Energeia” is now accessible on the open journal platform HOPE and is already indexed in important periodical directories. The open source software OJS (Open Journal System) is behind HOPE. In addition to the straightforward web presence, the platform offers the editors a professional administration system in the background and guarantees via its interfaces that the journal and its articles can be found in the relevant databases and catalogues worldwide. 

Samuel Nussbaum, Team Open Science Services