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Aethiopica is an international peer-reviewed journal published at the Hiob Ludolf Center for Ethiopian Studies and by the Department of African and Ethiopian Studies at the Asia-Africa Institute of the University of Hamburg. The journal is devoted to philology, linguistics, archaeology, history, cultural anthropology, religion, philosophy, literature, and manuscript studies of Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa, and related areas. Aethiopica publishes primarily in English, but also accepts French-, German-, and Italian-language submissions.
All content of the journal is published Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

Afrika und Übersee is the oldest scholarly journal of African linguistics in the world. It is one of the most important scholarly journals for the dissemination of research on African languages and their social and historical contexts, published in English, French, and German. The History website provides an overview of the history of the journal, founded in 1910, as well as its critical reflection ("Statement on the past and present of Afrika und Übersee").
Beginning with Volume 93 (2020), all content of the journal Open Access is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Volumes 1-92 (1910-2018) were published exclusively in print by Dietrich Reimer Verlag.

apropos [Perspektiven auf die Romania] is a peer-reviewed journal of Romance Studies and is edited by researchers at the University of Rostock. The journal highlights the many facets of Romania from a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and cultural studies perspective. apropos publishes primarily in German and English, but also accepts submissions in Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Portuguese).
All content of the journal is published Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

EDeR. An International Journal for Design-Based Research in Education is a peer-reviewed journal for design-based educational research published by the Hamburg Center for University Teaching and Learning (HUL) at the University of Hamburg. The journal provides a publication platform for transdisciplinary design-based research in education, involving both academia and practice (higher education, adult education and vocational training, professional education, school education). EDeR publishes in both English and German.
All content of the journal is published Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Ethnoscripts is a peer-reviewed journal of ethnological research published by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. The journal focuses thematically on theoretical approaches and ethnographic studies from contemporary ethnology. Ethnoscripts publishes in both English and German.
All content of the journal is published Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

IJRVET is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. It is the official organ of VETNET, the European research network for vocational education and training. IJRVET is published in English. The journal is devoted to all topics of vocational education and training research. IJRVET is listed in Scopus, the largest citation and abstract database for scientific peer-reviewed literature.
All journal content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. The content is therefore freely available, but restricted in re-use.

The Journal of Language and Aging Research (JLAR) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal focusing on the intersection of aging and language. The journal adapt an inclusive approach, studying both language-related phenomena and the later stages of life in order to learn both about and from aging. By creating a journal dedicated only to the intersection of language and aging, the aim is to allow for disciplinary diversity united by the common message that aging is linguistically highly relevant. JLAR is therefore meant to give comprehensive visibility to linguistic research on aging, and allow it to emerge from being unrepresented and underrepresented.
All contents of the journal are published Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

kommunikation@gesellschaft is a peer-reviewed journal of information and communication studies published by researchers at the University of Hamburg, the Hans Bredow Institute (HBI), the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. The focus is on the use of media-cultural artefacts by the subject, including technical aspects and device functions, handling and social practice as well as the use and content of "old" and "new" media.  kommunikation@gesellschaft publishes exclusively in German.
Since 2017 (vol. 18), all content of the journal is published Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Volumes 01-17 from 2000-2016 were published on the Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR) platform freely available under a deposit license.

 

The peer-reviewed journal STANDPUNKT : SOZIAL has been dealing with a wide range of topics in the context of social work since 1990 and combines education at HAW Hamburg with social work practice in and around Hamburg. Each issue focuses on a special topic, which is the responsibility of one or more coordinators with expertise in this field. STANDPUNKT : SOZIAL publishes all article open access since 2024. All articles are submitted and managed via the open source software Open Journal Systems (OJS).

API Magazin is a peer-reviewed student magazine for studying, teaching and further education published by professors of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW). Students, lecturers and practitioners publish articles and illustrative examples for studies in the field of information, library and media. API Magazin publishes all articles in German and was awarded the Team Award Information Professionals (TIP) in 2020.
All content of the magazine is published Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie (HJK) edited by Anthropological Studies in Culture and History at the University of Hamburg   publishes disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary contributions on cultural anthropology with its historical-empirical research fields and subject areas of social and cultural change. The articles are published by young and established researchers from academia, museums, cultural and media institutions, and others.
All content of the magazine is published Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

The journals of the GIGA Journal Family published by the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) publish peer-reviewed articles on the relevant regions by scholars from all over the world.Since 2019, the GIGA Journals are published by SAGE Publishing. All issues published between 2009 and 2018 in cooperation with Hamburg University Press are archived as static versions and are sustainably available (see below).
All journal content has been published Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Germany (CC BY-ND 3.0 DE) license

• Africa Spectrum
• Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
• Journal of Politics in Latin America
• Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs