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Book Series Policies

The IJPSC Book Series publishes scholarly monographs, textbooks, edited volumes, scholarly editions and translations that extend the work of the International Journal of Psychology and Strategic Communication (IJPSC) beyond the format of the journal article. The books address readers in research, teaching and professional practice in psychology, strategic communication, management and economics. All books are published open access.

The IJPSC Book Series is a publication line separate from the journal IJPSC. The policies on this page apply only to the book series. The journal’s Peer Review Policy, Copyright & Licensing Policy and Open Access Policy do not apply to books in the series.

1. Publisher and Support

Publisher: Jung-Stilling-Gesellschaft e.V., Wiebelhäuser Str. 25, 57299 Burbach, Germany, represented by its President, Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Dr. h.c. Eckehard Krah. Email: info@jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de

Supported by: Stiftung Anneliese und Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Waldemar Wittmann, which supports the book series financially. The foundation is not the publisher and has no role in editorial decisions.

2. Series Editors

  • Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Dr. h.c. Eckehard Krah, Innovative University of Applied Sciences Cologne and Mittweida University of Applied Sciences
  • Prof. Dr. Serge Velesco, MBA, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences

The series editors are responsible for the scholarly direction of the series, the selection of external reviewers and all publication decisions.

3. Types of Publications

The series publishes:

  • scholarly monographs and textbooks;
  • edited volumes with contributions by several authors;
  • scholarly editions of historical texts;
  • translations of scholarly works.

4. Review Procedure

Every book in the series is reviewed in two stages before publication.

Editorial review. The series editors assess the proposal and the complete manuscript for scholarly quality, originality, fit with the series, structure, correct citation (APA 7th edition) and research integrity. Manuscripts must be submitted complete and ready for publication.

External peer review. Each monograph, textbook and scholarly edition is then reviewed by at least one independent external expert in the relevant field who is not a member of the editorial team of the series. The review is single-blind: the reviewer knows the identity of the author, while the identity of the reviewer is not disclosed to the author unless the reviewer agrees to be named in the book. The reviewer assesses the scholarly quality, originality, methodology, use of sources and suitability for the intended readership and gives a recommendation.

Edited volumes. The volume editors first review each contribution editorially. Each contribution is then reviewed by another contributor to the volume, and at least one independent external expert reviews all contributions and the volume as a whole. Contributions written by a volume editor are assessed by a series editor together with the external reviewer.

Translations. A translation of a book that has already been reviewed in the series is checked by a qualified native speaker with expertise in the field. A translation of a work first published elsewhere requires the written permission of the original publisher and undergoes the full external peer review.

Decision. The series editors decide on publication on the basis of the external review. The type of review is documented for each book.

5. Conflicts of Interest

External reviewers must not be affiliated with the same institution as the author or volume editor, must not have co-authored with them in recent years and must not be in a supervisory relationship with them. Reviewers must not hold office in the publisher or in the supporting foundation. For volumes whose author or editor holds office in the publisher, the reviewers must not be members of the publisher. The series editors select the reviewers; reviewers suggested by authors are not accepted. If a series editor is the author or editor of a volume, all decisions on that volume are made by the other series editor together with the external reviewers, and this is stated in the book. The 0 % endogeny rule of the journal IJPSC does not apply to the book series.

6. Licence and Copyright

Copyright remains with the authors, or with the volume editors and contributors of edited volumes. All books and chapters are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Users may copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given and a link to the licence is included. Commercial use and the distribution of adapted versions, including translations, require the prior written permission of the author and the publisher. The rights granted to the publisher are set out in the publishing agreement for each volume. Each book states its publication date, licence and copyright holder.

7. Open Access and Costs

All books and chapters are freely available online immediately upon publication, with no embargo and no registration. Authors and volume editors are not charged any book processing charges. Each volume is also published as a printed softcover edition; authors receive 50 complimentary printed copies, and further printed copies can be ordered at the author’s cost. Printed copies may be sold. Any third-party support for an individual volume, such as a printing cost subsidy, is disclosed in the book.

8. ISBNs, DOIs and Metadata

Each edition (print and online) receives its own ISBN from the publisher’s ISBN prefix 978-3-928984. Each volume and each chapter receives its own DOI (prefix 10.61030), registered with Crossref, so that chapters can be cited, found and indexed individually. The metadata of each book include the licence.

Each DOI resolves to its own landing page on ijpsc.org: one landing page for the volume as a whole and one for each chapter. The landing pages show the bibliographic metadata, the abstract, the keywords, the licence and a link to the full text. They are kept permanently available, and the DOI registration is updated if the address of a landing page changes.

9. Reservation of Rights for Text and Data Mining

In accordance with § 44b para. 3 of the German Copyright Act (UrhG), the rights holders reserve the right to text and data mining of books in the series for commercial purposes, including the training of artificial intelligence models. Text and data mining for non-commercial scientific research (§ 60d UrhG) remains permitted. This reservation applies only to the IJPSC Book Series, not to articles in the journal IJPSC, which are published under CC BY 4.0.

10. Archiving and Preservation

The online editions are permanently hosted on ijpsc.org and identified by Crossref DOIs. The printed editions are deposited with the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) as legal deposit copies. Further preservation arrangements will be documented on this page.

11. Publication Ethics, Corrections and Retractions

The principles of the IJPSC Publication Ethics & Research Integrity Policy on authorship, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, use of generative artificial intelligence and handling of misconduct apply correspondingly to the book series. Interviews reported in books must have been conducted with real persons; simulated expert interviews with AI agents are not accepted. Corrections and retractions are handled in accordance with the principles of the IJPSC Corrections and Retractions Policy; corrected versions are identified as such and linked to the original DOI.

Information on proposals and manuscripts is given in Book Series: Information for Authors and Editors.

12. Contact

IJPSC Book Series, Jung-Stilling-Gesellschaft e.V., Wiebelhäuser Str. 25, 57299 Burbach, Germany
Contact person: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Dr. h.c. Eckehard Krah
Email: editor@ijpsc.org