Religion in the Roman Empire (RRE)

Each volume consists of three issues a year, each of approximately 130 pages in length. It includes an editorial, five to seven main articles, and book reviews. All articles and contributions that exceed 8 pages in length are subject to double-blind peer reviews. Submissions will be anonymized for that purpose. All articles and contributions are in English.

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Next year’s first issue of Religion in the Roman Empire is set to be published in diamond open access, rendering it freely accessible through a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-SA 4.0), with no fees for authors and at no cost to a worldwide audience of readers. All it will take to ensure a fully open access digital journal using the subscribe-to-open model (S2O) are renewals of existing subscriptions.

As a building block for a viable and sustainable OA strategy, the S2O model side-steps the weaknesses of other models by not charging authors for article processing or piling open access compensation fees onto subscriptions. S2O is also in line with the German Science Council’s sustainability proposals and the Plan S initiative because it builds on established structures and provides all involved in publishing with a reliable planning basis devoid of monetary and national barriers that hamper access to research literature.