Open Cultural Studies

Authors publishing in Open Cultural Studies benefit from

• fair and constructive peer review
• quick online publication of accepted papers (continuous publication model)
• language polishing services upon acceptance for authors from non-English speaking regions
• all articles are freely available to the academic community worldwide without any restrictions
• promotion of published papers to readers and citers
• distribution to open access directories (such as DOAJ) and thousands of libraries worldwide
• liberal policies on copyrights (authors retain copyright) and on self-archiving (no embargo periods)
• secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico

Special issues
Open calls for papers:

• Violence(s), edited by Carolina Borda (NHS Scotland) and Cristina Basso
  deadline for submissions: January 31, 2025.

• Challenging Nihilism: An Exploration of Culture and Hope, edited by Juan A. Tarancón (University of Zaragoza)
  deadline for submissions: April 30, 2025

• Designing the Feminist City: Projects, Practices, Processes for Urban Public Spaces, edited by Cecilia De Marinis (BAU College of Arts and Design of Barcelona, Spain) and Dorotea Ottaviani (University of Sapienza, Italy)
  deadline for submissions: May 15, 2025

• Post-Truth and Indigenous Environmental Justice in Canada: Myths, Media, and Reality, edited by Kamelia Talebian Sedehi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and Paula Wieczorek (University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Poland)
  deadline for submissions: October 31, 2025

Article Processing Charges

In order to sustain the publishing process, each article accepted for publication in Open Cultural Studies　is subject to an Article Processing Charge. This fee is used to cover the costs of manuscript processing, professional typesetting and copyediting, as well as online hosting, long-term preservation, and extensive promotion to potential readers. There is no submission fee.

The regular Article Processing Charge is determined by the date of submission in the on-line submissions system:

• 500 euro + VAT for manuscripts submitted in 2024
• 1000 euro + VAT for manuscripts submitted in January 2025
• 1050 euro + VAT for manuscripts submitted since February 1, 2025

For more information please go to Article Processing Charges.

Publication Ethics and Editorial Policies

Detailed information on Editorial Policy, Publication Ethics, Instructions for Authors etc. can be found in the Supplementary Materials section.

For more information on De Gruyter Publishing Ethics, please see the De Gruyter Guidelines online here.

Open Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that explores the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. It interprets culture in an inclusive sense, in different theoretical, geographical and historical contexts. The journal promotes new research perspectives in cultural studies, but it also seeks to map out social and political scholarship that places questions of inequalities and imbalances of power at the heart of academic debate.

Aims and Scope

We invite researchers, academics, teachers, practitioners, and educators to submit proposals for thematic issues/articles dealing with a broad range of subjects. These may include:

• History & memory,
• Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian & other cultures,
• Popular culture,
• Youth cultures & subcultures,
• Visual culture,
• Photography & film,
• Ethnic & traditional cultures,
• Comparative Literature,
• Media & communication,
• Architecture & urban studies,
• Multiculturalism, inter- & trans-culturalism,
• Gender, lesbian, gay & queer studies,
• Music & dance,
• Theatre & performance,
• Culture & education,
• Regional cultural studies,
• Political economy,
• Area studies,
• Cultural policy,
• Sports.