Julkea! – experimentations towards new scientific publishing

Alue & Ympäristö participates in a two-year project to develop society-based academic publishing.

The project is a joint effort by three Finnish scientific societies:  The Society for Regional and Environmental Studies (AYS), The Geographical Society of Finland (SMS) and The Finnish Society for Environmental Social Science (YHYS). The societies publish three referee journals: Alue & Ympäristö, Fennia and Terra. The project aims at tightening cooperation between the scientific societies, establishing and strengthening ties between academic and expert communities and scientific societies and finding and developing new practices for academic publishing and new arenas for scientific debate

The word ”julkea” has a double meaning in Finnish. As an adjective, it stands for audacious, immodest and daring, and as a verb the project shouts Dare!. With these connotations, Julkea! aims at opening up space for discussion, new ideas and experimentation, and developing responsible non-profit open access academic publishing.

The project is led by academy research fellow Kirsi Pauliina Kallio and coordinated by researcher Pieta Hyvärinen from the University of Tampere.