Publications

Information for academics and authors

Are you looking to publish an academic work and seeking a publisher who will support your project with experience, professional rigour and personal commitment? For over 50 years, Reichert Verlag has been synonymous with excellent academic publications and a diverse catalogue that now comprises more than 4,000 titles in stock.

Whether it is a monograph, dissertation, postdoctoral thesis, conference proceedings, anthology, handbook or textbook – we support authors and editors from the initial idea right through to the finished book. In doing so, we place great emphasis on personalised advice, transparent processes and close collaboration with the relevant contacts within the publishing house.

Your publications with us:

Please send your enquiry directly to info@reichert-verlag.de. If possible, please attach the full manuscript or an extract to your enquiry as a plain text file (Word format) and/or as a PDF. In addition, we require a brief description of your project’s content and your publication requirements (e.g. format, illustrations, etc.) and/or please send us the completed project questionnaire along with your academic CV.

Provided they fit thematically and academically into our programme, we will publish your work as a monograph or in one of our academic series. This ensures your work is placed in a suitable context and enjoys optimal visibility within the relevant field of research.

You can find an overview of our series here.

1. Layout guidelines for print files

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Guidelines_Editorial-Layout-Typeset.pdf

2. Layout instructions (without typesetting)

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Editorial_guidelines_LRV.pdf

3. Layout instructions for music therapy

Redaktion_Musiktherapie_LRV.pdf
Editorial_Guidelines_MT_LRV.pdf

Author details for marketing • English version

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Open Access:

Open Access has established itself as an essential part of the scientific world. Open Access means easy, free of charge access to scientific content as well as unrestricted usage of such in research and teaching, with the content being available anyplace, anytime. Reichert publishing offers its authors and editors the possibility of Open Access publishing for their monographs and anthologies by means of a publication fee. This is determined by several factors, such as the time of placement as Open Access content and the extent of the offer, as well as the scope and effort of the publication.

COST AND ACCESS

The costs for immediate digital accessibility (Open Access Gold) lie between € 4.500,- and € 11.000,- (net price), depending on the scope of the title at hand. As Open Access publishing and traditional, high-quality print offers can go hand in hand in the scientific sector, we offer our customers Open Access publishing as a standard complementary module next to traditional printing. However, a solely digital Open Access publication is, of course, also possible.
Our Open Access publications are not only available on our own Media Library, but are of course also made available on important international Open Access databases and repositories. Our Open Access publications supplement our large range of high-quality print products and our ever growing assortment of e-books.
Libraries, universities and other institutional customers can gain access to our digital offers via our Website, either within the framework of a paid subscription or as direct, free-of-charge access to Open Access publications.

SERVICES OFFERED BY REICHERT PUBLISHING

It goes without saying that we manage our Open Access publications with the same care and attention to the highest quality possible as we do our traditional print products. Our qualified team will offer you professional guidance in project consulting, editing and production, as well as concerning the pre-press stage and printing process. Comprehensive marketing and extensive Open Access distribution ensure a wide reach, worldwide availability and discoverability of our Open Access publications and will thus help actively disseminate your scientific content.

Open Access Gold publication include the following services:

Project consulting: support regarding applications for funding. Consultation on the editorial preparation of your manuscript.
Peer Review procedure: Assurance of quality maintenance of your scientific work through independent experts from the same field of research.
Assessment of manuscript: Including professional proofreading, expert editing or foreign language proofreading, if desired (see below).
Production: professional typesetting, layout, cover design.
Visibility and indexing: Assignment of a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Report to Crossref database. Metadata in common formats for library catalogs and service providers. Listing at common providers for abstracting, indexing and discovery services, such as ProQuest, Ebsco, Ex Libris und WorldCat, Knowledge BASE, OAPEN Library, Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). Authors registered with ORCID can be identified in this way.
Long-term archiving: Via our Media Library, via the German National Library, Portico and – after consultation – within library’s Dark Archives.
Marketing and distribution: We assure the same quality in the promotion of newly released Open Access titles which we apply to the promotion of our traditional print publications. Just as the latter, we promote newly released Open Access titles through newsletters, catalogs on new releases and in our publisher’s preview, as well as through review requests. Furthermore, we offer bookstalls at specialist conferences to promote titles. We may charge additional costs for complex typesetting, extensive image editing, obtaining image rights, proofreading by a native speaker and/or expert editing or the like.

LICENSES AND RIGHTS OF USE

Open Access publications require specific user licenses. As a rule, we publish under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, which guarantees the mention of the originator and which allows for usage of content in non-commercial settings and if unedited. It is also possible to choose other types of licenses – please contact us regarding these. The demands of our authors and the requirements of the institutions financially supporting a publication are our main concern. Strict quality requirements apply to all our publications, which meet both our own standards and the specifications of the respective funding institution. This also applies to the requisite peer review procedure.

Should you have any further questions regarding Open Access publications, please don’t hesitate to contact us via info@reichert-verlag.de

Marketing and visibility:

Even after publication, we support your work with targeted measures to enhance its visibility within the academic community. Our marketing department assists authors and editors in presenting their publications effectively and reaching the appropriate target audience. 

• Featured listing of your publication on our publishing house website
• Featured listing of your eBook (where contractually agreed) in our Media Library, including as an open-access publication
• Announcement of your work in our new publications catalogue, as well as in other thematically relevant catalogues, leaflets and on our promotional materials
• Inclusion of your new publication in our regular newsletter
• Presentation at specialist conferences and trade fairs
• Presentation on our social media channels – such as Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn

VG Wort:

VG Wort is a collecting society that administers rights and remuneration claims in the field of literary works. It acts in the interests of authors and publishers and ensures that certain uses of texts are remunerated.

Such remuneration arises, for example, when academic works are used, copied or otherwise reproduced in libraries. Levies paid by manufacturers of photocopiers, printers and storage media also flow into this system. The amounts collected in this way are gathered by VG Wort and distributed once a year.
Participation in the distributions

If you, as an author, wish to receive a share of the distributions, you should conclude a so-called representation agreement with VG Wort. Only then can you register your published works for the distribution.

Registration takes place via VG Wort’s online portal, T.O.M. – Texte Online Melden. There you can enter your publications and register them for the next distribution. Please note the applicable deadlines, which are published on the VG Wort website.

We recommend that you register your publication as soon as possible after its publication. In principle, all works published within a calendar year are eligible.

Publisher’s share

In its distributions, VG Wort takes into account not only the authors but also the publishers. The reason for this is that academic publications are generally produced and disseminated through the collaboration of authors and publishers.

For academic publications, VG Wort’s distribution plan provides for a split in the distribution: two-thirds go to the authors, one-third to the publisher.

Please refer to the VG Wort website for further information on the currently applicable registration deadlines, requirements and regulations.

Submission of your ORCID:

Public institutions and organisations are increasingly making it compulsory to provide an ORCID. We are therefore required to link all our books listed in the VLB (Directory of Available Books) to the author’s or editor’s ORCID.

An ORCID is a unique code that you, as an academic author, can use for identification purposes. The ORCID ensures that your publication can be reliably attributed to you, whereas relying on a name alone (due to duplicate names or similar issues) is prone to errors. The use of an ORCID is becoming increasingly widespread in the international academic community.

We therefore ask you to provide us with your ORCID.

If you do not yet have an ORCID, you can create one at https://orcid.org/ and then provide it to us. Instructions on how to register can be found here (in german).

Another advantage for you: by providing an ORCID, VG Wort’s notifications and distributions will be securely and unambiguously attributed to you, ensuring that you do not miss out on any distributions or copying royalties.