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For Immediate Release, October 5, 2009

Contact: Sigi Jöttkandt: sigij AT openhumanitiespress.org
Open Humanities Press

PHILOSOPHY JOURNAL CONVERTS TO OA, JOINS OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS – 
Filozofski vestnik International, a peer-reviewed journal from the 
Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian 
Academy of the Arts and Sciences, has converted to open access and 
become part of the Open Humanities Press collective.

The major new humanities publishing initiative, Open Humanities Press 
(OHP) (http://openhumanitiespress.org), is pleased to welcome its latest 
addition to the open access journal collective. Filozofski vestnik 
International, edited by Peter Klepec, is the first print-to-OA 
conversion OHP has undertaken.

“We are delighted to join OHP’s list of prestigious OA journals” said 
Jelica Šumič-Riha, a member of the Filozofski vestnik International 
editorial board. “I'm sure that the journal will thrive surrounded by 
such a stimulating collective.”

Filozofski vestnik International, the international edition of the 
Slovenian language journal, will continue to publish in print as well as 
OA. The editors explained their decision as a way of extending the small 
print runs that are subsidized by the Slovenian government. “The open 
access edition will reach a much wider audience than the paper versions. 
We see them as complementary,” said Šumič-Riha.

Filozofski vestnik International’s international advisory board includes 
Alain Badiou, Chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, 
J.G.A. Pocock, Harry C. Black Professor of History Emeritus at Johns 
Hopkins University, Herta Nagl-Docekal, Professor of Philosophy at the 
University of Vienna, Chantal Mouffe, Professor of Political Theory at 
the University of Westminster, Manfred Frank, Professor of Philosophy at 
the University of Tübingen, Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor 
of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Like all journals affiliated with OHP, Filozofski vestnik International 
was assessed by OHP’s editorial oversight group for its fit with OHP’s 
intellectual mission and publication standards. The conversion, using 
the Public Knowledge Project’s Open Journal Systems, was overseen by 
Sigi Jöttkandt, one of OHP’s co-founders. “I was thrilled when the 
prestigious print journal, Filozofski vestnik, approached us about their 
intention to go OA. I expect we will see a lot more academic editors 
turning to the print/OA hybrid model as a compelling way of getting work 
out to readers. This is an important milestone for OHP, and for 
humanities publishing.” Filozofski vestnik International appears once a 
year with articles in English, French and German.

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Open Humanities Press is an international Open Access publishing 
collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP was formed 
by academics to overcome the current crisis in scholarly publishing that 
threatens intellectual freedom and academic rigor worldwide. OHP 
journals are academically certified by OHP’s independent board of 
international scholars. All OHP publications are peer-reviewed, 
published under open access licenses, and freely and immediately 
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