oekom verlag is happy to contribute to open access and wants to encourage its authors to participate in this program. With GAIA Hybrid Open Access, we offer our authors to have their article made publicly available with full open access against a basic charge.

All articles published in GAIA are subject to the same procedures and standards of peer-review and edited by our team of professional editors. We are frequently commented on the outstanding editorial and graphic quality of GAIA journal and assure our readers to maintain the same high standards in the future both in our print and our online editions.

How it works
If you opt for GAIA Hybrid Open Access, your article is freely available 24/7 to everybody around the world with access to the internet. Once your article is accepted for publication in GAIA, we will inform you about our Hybrid Open Access option.


If you decide to publish as hybrid open access
Shortly before publication of the print issue, your article will be freely available for download on our Ingenta site to everybody in the world. It will also appear in our print issue, available to all individual and institutional subscribers.


Pricing
Our services include organization of the review and publishing process, professional language editing, layout and graphics. GAIA articles are abstracted and indexed in various scientific databases (including Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Science; Social Science Citation Index; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), CAB Abstracts, EBSCO and Scopus) and our editors attend relevant conferences and meetings to market our journal and thus the publications of our authors. Further costs are involved in the process of printing, distribution and hosting. To maintain our high standards of quality while covering our costs we offer Hybrid Open Access against a fee of 850 EUR (VAT not included) per published article.

Copyright
Articles in GAIA are being published under the  Creative-Commons-License "CC 3.0  Attribution Unported" . On the basis of this license, the article may be edited and  changed, but the author always has to be credited for the original  work.
By sending your article to GAIA, you agree to the publication of  your article under this license. Please contact us if you do not  want to have your article be published under CC 3.0.

Funding
Major research organizations and national as well as international funding agencies (e.g., DFG, Helmholtz Association) support open access and encourage their employees to publish in open access journals. If you consider publishing your article in GAIA Hybrid Open Access it may be a good idea to confer with your organization to secure funding.

More information in our folder.