coMMents

coMMents (chronicle of the Mauthausen Memorial: current studies) is an open access journal published by the KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen | Mauthausen Memorial for academic articles on the history of the Mauthausen/Gusen concentration camp complex. Submitted articles will undergo a review process, upon the successful completion of which they will be available on our website. No publication fees will be charged to authors, and readers will be able to download the articles for free.

 

Links:

ISSN: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN-L/2960-4303

DOAJ: [ in request ]

 

Content focus

Each year the coMMents editorial team will select a topic of special interest intended to encourage submissions with a particular thematic focus. This topic will be announced on the website. However, the editorial team also welcomes articles the on following areas:

1.) Research on the history of the Mauthausen concentration camp, the Gusen branch camp, and all subcamps of the Mauthausen concentration camp.

2.) Research on the history of the subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp located on Austrian territory.

3.) Interdisciplinary research on all types of ‘camp’ which existed during the Nazi era that had a connection to the Mauthausen concentration camp complex, for example extermination camps, ‘work education camps’, ‘forced labour camps’, ‘forced labour camps for Jews’, Gestapo camps, police custody camps and prisoner of war camps.

4.) Research on institutions with a connection to the Mauthausen concentration camp, e.g. on the history of penal system under National Socialism.

5.) Biographical and collective biographical studies of people or groups of people with a connection to the history of the Mauthausen concentration camp complex, for example ‘prisoner groups’ of the Nazi concentration camps.

6.) Research on the memorial culture and afterlife of the Mauthausen concentration camp; research on national and international remembrance communities with a connection to the Mauthausen concentration camp and its history.

 

Frequency of publication
Articles that successfully complete the peer review process will be published online on the principle of ‘rolling publication’. At the end of the year they will be compiled to form an issue of the journal.

 

Review process

Submitted articles will undergo a review process in line with the principle of editorial review in consultation with external experts, consisting of the Editorial Advisory Board and the Scientific Board of the coMMents open access journal.

The editorial team will send submitted articles to members of the Editorial Advisory Board. The manuscript will be reviewed according to standardised criteria (academic quality, structure, reference to the current state of research, critical reflection on theories and potential contradictions, language and style) to determine whether the article constitutes a valuable contribution to the journal. The Editorial Advisory Board will send written reviews to the editorial team, who will add any further suggestions for corrections or recommendations to the manuscript. The comments made by the Editorial Advisory Board and editorial team will be incorporated into the article in consultation with the author.

The revised article will then be sent to the members of the Scientific Board, who will also have the opportunity to add any notes, comments or suggestions for improvements to the article. Should further changes be necessary, these will be undertaken by the editorial team in collaboration with the author.

 

History of the Journal

coMMents was launched in 2022 by the Research Center of the Mauthausen Memorial. The journal takes up the work of the Mauthausen Memorial Yearbook, which ran from 2007 to 2017. Up until 2017, the Yearbook published research findings on the Mauthausen/Gusen concentration camp complex, printed annotated texts of historical documents, and reported on activities and events over the previous year.

The Yearbooks (only in German) can be downloaded here: www.mauthausen-memorial.org/de/Forschungsstelle/Publikationen/Jahrbuch

 

Publication guidelines

Academic articles submitted to coMMents must be unpublished and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors must adhere to the standards of good academic practice and the ‘Guidelines for Publications of the KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen | Mauthausen Memorial’.

>>> Download: https://www.mauthausen-memorial.org/assets/uploads/coMMentsGuidelinesEN.pdf

Publication rights for images, tables etc. will be clarified by the coMMents editorial team in consultation with the author. Any data on which analysis in the article is based must be provided to the editorial team on request for the purposes of evaluation – and where possible, also made accessible to readers.

Authors must undertake to name any third party funders, funding institutions or grant donors connected to the article.

Before publication of the article, the author will be sent an ‘Author’s Agreement’, a signed copy of which must be returned to the editorial team (comments@mauthausen-memorial.org).

coMMents is not liable for any losses, claims, legal proceedings, costs, damages or other liabilities, which may arise directly or indirectly from the use of data or information published in the journal.

 

Open Access declaration

The articles published in coMMents will be freely accessible via our website in order to promote the dissemination of knowledge at global level.

 

Copyright and licensing information

All articles published in coMMents will be subject to a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) licence. Authors publishing work in coMMents are required to agree to this licencing arrangement as part of the ‘Author’s Agreement’. All published articles may be reproduced by users free of charge for non-commercial purposes, in accordance with the terms of the licence. The copyright remains with the original author. Users must name the author in connection with the licenced object (article) and are prohibited from undertaking any revisions or changes to the article. For further information, see the binding version of the selected licence: www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/at/legalcode

The copyright for the layout and design of the article is held by the KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen | Mauthausen Memorial.

Publication rights for images, tables etc. will be clarified by the coMMents editorial team in consultation with the author. Articles published on the coMMents website must not necessarily reflect the opinions of the publisher or editorial team.

The copyright for the layout and design of the articles remains with the Mauthausen Memorial. The publication rights of illustrations, tables etc. will be clarified by the coMMents editorial team in consultation with the respective authors. The articles published on the coMMents website do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the publisher or the editorial team.

 

Long-term archiving

In future, the permanent accessibility of the journal’s content will be secured through the use of the PKP Preservation Network (PN). In the medium term, the KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen | Mauthausen Memorial is developing a concept for long-term archiving. In addition, journal articles and issues will be archived in printed form in the specialist library of the Mauthausen Memorial and made accessible to users in this form.

 

Submission of articles:

We request that all authors observe the following points when submitting their article. Failure to do so may result in the rejection of the article by the editorial team before the review process:

• The article must be unpublished and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• The article must adhere to the standards of good academic practice and the ‘Guidelines for Publications of the KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen | Mauthausen Memorial’.
• The file should be sent in the format .odt, .doc, .docx or .rtf.
• Articles must not exceed a maximum length of 50,000 characters including spaces.
• Image rights must be obtained from the authors.
• Articles must be accompanied by an abstract of maximum length 1,500 characters including spaces.
• Articles must be written in German or English.
• Any third-party funders, funding institutions or grant donors must be named.

Articles can be submitted to the editorial team at any time by email to:

comments@mauthausen-memorial.org