Berghahn Books is a New York and Oxford-based
publisher of
scholarly books and
academic journals in the
humanities and
social sciences, with a special focus on
social &
cultural anthropology
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,
European history,
politics, and
film
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&
media studies
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. It was founded in 1994 by Marion Berghahn.
Books division
Berghahn Books publishes ca 140 new titles and some 80
paperback editions each year and has a
backlist of nearly 2,500 titles in print. New titles are published in both print and
online, with the select
digitization
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of the backlist currently being undertaken as part of the Berghahn Books Online platform. Many Berghahn titles have been reviewed on ''
Choice''.
Journals division
Berghahn Journals currently publishes over 40 journals in those social science and humanities fields that complement its books list. This includes an annual series, ''Advances in Research'', launched in 2013. Its journals have been available online since 2001. Berghahn Journals was awarded the ''
AAP PROSE Award for Best New Journal in the Social Sciences and Humanities'' two years in a row: in 2009 for ''
Girlhood Studies
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'' and in 2008 for ''
Projections''. ''Girlhood Studies'' was also the recipient of the Highly Commended Certificate for the 2010
ALPSP Best New Journal Award.
As of 2019, Berghahn Books joined
Annual Reviews in releasing part of its journal content under the
Subscribe to Open
Subscribe to Open (S2O) is an economic model used by peer-reviewed scholarly journals to provide readers with open access (OA) to the journal’s content, without charging costs to authors. S2O converts journals that have a traditional subscri ...
(S2O) initiative. In 2019 Berghahn offered 13 titles in
anthropology as possible S2O candidates, all of which were released as
open content in 2020.
As of June 3, 2021, Berghahn Journals announced that ''
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale'', the journal of the
European Association of Social Anthropologists The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) is an organization of scholars in the field of anthropology founded in 1989. EASA serves as a major professional organization for social anthropologists working in Europe. It is supported by ...
(EASA) would become part of their open-access set of anthropology journals, starting with Volume 30 in 2022. EASA members "voted overwhelmingly" to leave their current publishers, Wiley, and "to take our journal Open Access in a way that is sustainable and equitable."
See also
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Journals published by Berghahn
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1994 establishments in New York (state)
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