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Articles for this journal are submitted outside this publication system. Information for this can be found on the submissions page.

By submitting an article, you agree that the article - after completion of the review process and if it is accepted by the editorial board - will be published under the license CC BY-SA. By submitting an article, you also consent to receive notifications - some of them automated - in the system and/or by email, which serve to inform you about the course of the submission process. During the submission process, it is also possible to send messages/emails via the system.

Bielefeld University supports the science policy demand for open access to scientific publications. In this sense, all published articles are presented freely accessible and can be accessed without technical hurdles.
In order to achieve a wide dissemination and visibility of published articles, publication-related data (metadata of published articles) are freely available for subsequent use via established interfaces (e.g. OAI-PMH) and published articles can be indexed by search engines. The same purpose is served by sharing the metadata of published articles with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the PKP index, and other subject databases. For the assignment of unique identifiers (DOI = Digital Object Identifier), the metadata are passed on to the registration agency DataCite. Published articles are transferred to the German National Library (DNBG) within the scope of the obligation to deliver net publications according to §§ 15 ff. DNBG to the German National Library (DNB) or made available to it for collection.

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• Names of authors
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• Curriculum vitae, if applicable

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