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Acommunity-driven diamond open access journal in geomorphology
Bastian Grimm1,*,Melanie Stammler2,*,Katy Burrows3,Roberto Fernández4,Matthieu Giaime5,
Larry Syu-Heng Lai6and Alice Lefebvre7
1Department of Geogr aphy, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany (Bastian. Grimm@geogr.uni-giessen.de)
2Department of Geogr aphy, Bonn Univer sity, Bonn, Ger many (stammler@uni-bonn.de)
3Department of Earth and Environment al Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineeri ng, Pennsylvania State Universi ty, State Coll ege, PA, USA
5ASM UMR5140, Uni versit é Montpel lier 3, CNRS, MCC, 34000 Montpell ier, France
6Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Uni versity of Washi ngton, Seattle, USA
7MARUM, Uni versity of Bremen, Bre men, Germany
*corresponding authors
Why Diamond Open Access?
§remove barriers in scientific publishing
§no subscription charges or APCs
§authors retain copyright
§prevents authorship exclusivity (Gold OA) and
readership exclusivity (subscription)
§triple-anonymous review (authors, reviewers
and AE are anonymous)
§Free to publish, free to read, for all
What is Geomorphica?
§acommunity-driven diamond open access journal
§a diverse team of 30 international members of
different career stages
§Composed of the editorial boards and four teams:
EDI, communications, tech and ethics
§hosted by Penn State University Library (resilient
&secure preservation;LOCKSS)
§Supported by the International Association of
Geomorphology (IAG) Our focus
§community-run & community-lead
§promote academic discourse &disseminate
research results pertaining to all aspects of
geomorphology
§contribute to the growing family of diamond
open access journals
Interested? Submit your manuscript, join the team, and stay in touch!
Some statistics
§4 papers published
§15 papers submitted out of which 10 are in the
reviewing process
§> 40 reviewers in the reviewer data base
Review Process Editorial board composition
Reviewer databas e:
GEOMORPHICA‘S INTERNATIONAL
TEAM