Scientific Blogs as Infrastructure for Digital Publishing and Academic Communication: Expanding the Model Project "Völkerrechtsblog"

Emerging from the Working Group of Young Scholars in International Law (Arbeitskreis junger VölkerrechtswissenschaftlerInnen; AjV), Völkerrechtsblog constitutes since 2014 a platform for digital publishing in international legal scholarship. The research project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) aims to establish Völkerrechtsblog as a model project in the area of scholarly publishing in the digital age. Fortifying and expanding Völkerrechtsblog contributes to a stronger Open Access infrastructure in German legal academia, which remains dominated by traditional media, and can help to increase its international visibility. A further aim is to concurrently oversee the implementation of the Open Access strategy of the Max Planck Society and to bring the perspectives and needs of German international law scholarship into the discussion.