We’re excited to announce the launch of our revamped European Legislation Weblog. The brand new web site is designed to raised serve each our authors and readers. A particular thank-you to the UvA Diamond Open Entry Fund for funding this essential change!
Behind the scenes, we’ve been engaged on quite a lot of essential adjustments for the Weblog that we’re very pleased to share with you. In November 2023, we formalized the governance of the Weblog and based the non-profit basis Stichting European Legislation Weblog with the target of selling open-access analysis on EU legislation. The launch of our new web site marks a key step in that course. We wish to use this primary put up on the brand new web site to stipulate its major options.
What Is Improved?
We have now applied some measures to improve the visibility of our authors’ publications in educational engines like google, which supplies extra publicity to our authors’ contributions. Every publication is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and consists of an automatic quotation button. This may make it simpler to search out and reference the posts.
We have now adopted a Artistic Commons Attribution (CC BY) license for all posts, persevering with our dedication to open-access publishing by guaranteeing that the printed work might be simply accessed and shared.
Our submission course of for authors has been improved and standardised. It permits us to uphold a double-blind peer-review commonplace for all submissions. Authors can now submit their work instantly by means of the web site (within the transition interval, it’s also nonetheless doable for authors to submit their work by way of electronic mail). This may present a speedier, less complicated, and extra equitable assessment and publication course of.
We have now upgraded our educational occasions and requires papers function. Bulletins also can now be instantly submitted by means of the web site.
Switching to a brand new web site signifies that we’re additionally transitioning to a new e-newsletter platform. To make sure you don’t miss any of our newest content material, we invite you to enroll in it right here.
What Stays the Similar?
Our purpose of publishing high-quality educational commentary on EU legislation stays the identical. We’re presently within the means of transferring the posts from the previous web site to the brand new web site.
The brand new web site additionally comprises a few of the similar options of the previous web site: all weblog posts embody a downloadable model, readers can discover our subjects, and look by means of the archives.
We hope you get pleasure from the brand new web site and look ahead to proceed to publish glorious bite-size authorized commentary in EU legislation!
The Editorial Crew
