Zeitschrift für Mittelmeerstudien (ZfM)

• Applicant: Margit Mersch, since 7/2023
• Term: from 2020 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 433760359

As the first Mediterranean journal in the German-speaking academic world, Zeitschrift für Mittelmeerstudien (ZfM) as the mouthpiece of the Center for Mediterranean Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum will promote a sustainable Mediterranean perspective on historical and contemporary events and processes in the Mediterranean and provide a publication platform of international scope. The combination of four characteristics sets ZfM apart from other Mediterranean magazines worldwide: it is interdisciplinary, freely accessible, trilingual and explicitly addresses young scholars of Mediterranean Studies.As a Gold Open Access journal covering the spectrum of humanities, cultural and social sciences in all epochs of the Mediterraneum, it will make the results of national and international Mediterranean research freely accessible and reusable. ZfM is a trilingual journal and includes German as a publication language. In so doing, it is also targeting young German-speaking researchers from the field of Mediterranean Studies for whom no suitable publication medium with international reach yet exists. Bearing in mind the international nature of scientific research and, in particular, of Mediterranean Studies, the magazine will also publish articles in English and French. In this way, the journal can also be a medium for international experts and renowned specialists. 12 to 16 articles per year will be successively published in ZfM. A peer review process is in place to ensure the quality of the contributions. The international reviewers who make up the Editorial Advisory Board are drawn from across the academic spectrum of the field of Mediterranean Studies. With its interdisciplinary orientation as well as its immediate and free availability worldwide on the internet as an open access journal, ZfM constitutes a major contribution to the strengthening not only of the still young Mediterranean research perspective in the German-speaking world but also of Area Studies as a whole and will invite not to look at phenomena, events and processes of the Mediterraneum in isolation but in a comparative way and in a supra-regional context.

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Co-Investigators: Professorin Dr. Cornelia Jöchner; Professor Dr. Markus Koller; Professorin Dr. Verena Krebs
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Dr. Andreas Eckl, until 7/2023