BerlinUP Journals is actively engaged in a sustainable, quality-focused and cost-efficient transformation of scholarly publishing to open access. In order to fulfil this mission, exceptions to the admission criteria may be permitted. These decisions are strategic ones on a case-by-case basis and must be comprehensively weighed.

Cooperations

BerlinUP Journals strives for cooperation with other
institutions, if it serves the promotion of open access in a sense from which members of the FU, HU, TU or Charité in particular benefit.

• For this purpose, exceptions can be made to the basic affiliation guidelines.
• Collaborations of this kind must have a duration of at least 5 years.
• There must be a clear reference to the Berlin research landscape.
• Collaborations are to be used in particular for the transformation of existing journals.
• There must be a specific contact person for the journal. This can also be linked to a specific role, e.g. management or coordination.

Innovations

BerlinUP Journals promotes innovation in the scholarly publishing landscape.

• BerlinUP Journals aims to provide space for bibliodiversity and experimental forms of publication. For example, the Open Journal Systems publication software is also suitable for other periodicals (e.g. conference proceedings, research reports).
• For this purpose, exceptions to existing admission criteria may be considered, as well as the establishment of a separate section within BerlinUP Journals (e.g. proceedings).
• The criteria on scientificity and quality assurance must still be applicable.

Teaching and training

BerlinUP Journals considers scholarly publishing as a subject area of academic teaching and the training of scientists.

• BerlinUP Journals would like to provide publication options for student journals as well as for journals with didactic aims.
• For this purpose, exceptions to existing admission criteria may be considered, as well as the establishment of a separate section within BerlinUP Journals (e.g. student journals).
• For student journals, an affiliated person with a professorship must take on a "sponsorship". The tasks of a sponsorship include supervision of the quality assurance process and signing the publishing contract.
• The criteria on scientificity and quality assurance must still be applicable.