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Emerald Publishing has agreed a four-year sponsorship deal with the Kühne Foundation to make the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management fully Open Access from 2023.
This will remove the barriers to publishing and accessing research, allowing researchers to publish with no Article Processing Charges (APCs) while providing those working in the humanitarian logistics field with free access to content within the journal.
Sally Wilson, director of publishing at Emerald, said: “This progressive sponsorship enables us to remove the barriers to participation and to empower those that are underrepresented in academia. It is our hope that by enabling more people to access the research in this field and by removing the APCs, we will see more research being submitted from universities that have previously been underrepresented.”
Ahead of the journal becoming fully open in 2023, Emerald will run virtual issues and publish free-to-access content, as well as providing workshops on how to get published to support researchers who may not have engaged with the publishing process before.
The sponsorship deal officially started in January 2022 and the journal will continue to publish four issues and 24 articles per year.