Bohemia (magazine)

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Bohemia. Journal of the history and culture of the Czech lands

language German
publishing company Collegium Carolinum
First edition 1960
Frequency of publication twice a year
editor Martin Schulze Wessel , Michaela Marek , Frank Hadler , Sheilagh Ogilvie , Martin Nodl
Web link Bohemia-Online.de
ISSN (print) 0523-8587

Bohemia. Journal for the History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands is a scientific journal published since 1960 on the history of the Bohemia region and the states of the Czech Republic , Slovakia and Czechoslovakia in the East-Central European context. The English subtitle is A Journal of History and Civilization in East Central Europe.

History, appearance and content

The interdisciplinary journal with a regional focus was published for the first time in 1960. The journal is published on behalf of the Munich research institute Collegium Carolinum , which also acts as a publisher. From Volume 1 (1960) to Volume 20 (1979) the magazine had the subtitle Yearbook of the Collegium Carolinum . Initially still a simple bulletin of the institute's sponsoring association, after a few years the magazine developed into the “central communication platform for the scientific community” of historical bohemian studies , even if scientists from the Eastern Bloc were only able to publish there sporadically or under pseudonyms during the Cold War . After the revolutions of 1989, a debate about the limitations of national historiography and mutual opening was initiated and carried out here. The editorial board has been internationalized and the contents broadened thematically and opened up for new approaches. The contributions have been peer reviewed since 2010 .

In 2018 Martin Schulze Wessel , Michaela Marek , Frank Hadler , Sheilagh Ogilvie and Martin Nodl were the editors. The magazine sees itself in its technical specialization as unique in Western Europe. H-Soz-Kult called the 2016 publication the “reliable” and “central scientific organ for all problems from the past and present of the Bohemian countries”. The regional historical review platform Recensio Regio described the magazine as internationally recognized in 2018.

The print edition appears twice a year. Two issues each make one volume. Each issue has around 50 reviews on Bohemian history and the present. Abstracts are published in English , French and Czech for each contribution . The journal also maintains a comprehensive annotated bibliography .

Bohemia-Online

Since March 2013, all editions have been available online in Open Access with a delay of 24 months ( moving wall ) after the print edition . The table of contents, essay summaries, marginalia, conference reports and reviews are already available when the print edition is published. The project was carried out jointly by the Collegium Carolinum and the Bavarian State Library and funded by the German Research Foundation. The Open Journal System has been used as software for Bohemia-Online , whose user interface is available in German, English, Czech and Slovak since 2016 . The reviews are also available via Recensio.net , the content via the full-text database ViFaOstDok.

The project participants named an intensification of the exchange about bohemianism as the goal of this making available. This is a reaction to the changed research habits and the difficulties of the small department in getting noticed, especially since the science budgets in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are narrow. Christiane Brenner , who is employed as a historian at the Collegium Carolinum and has been editor of the magazine since 1999, described as a result of these changes in 2016 that the number of user accesses and manuscript offers had increased significantly. Another goal is to increasingly publish in English. The historian Klaus Graf criticized in 2013 that the full-text search in this content was an "isolated solution" because it was not networked with other collections.

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Remarks

  1. ^ A b Christiane Brenner: Bohemia-online: From the institute yearbook to Open Access. In: OstBib. Sources for Eastern European Studies , August 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ Frank Hadler: Dragons and Dragonslayer. The problem of the fixation of national history in the historiographies of East Central Europe after the Second World War. In: Christoph Conrad, Sebastian Conrad (Hrsg.): Writing the nation: Historical science in international comparison. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, pp. 137–164, here pp. 137 f.
  3. ↑ a b Christiane Brenner: Bohemia. Journal of the History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands (abstract). In: #VIEJournals , blog of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , May 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c Bohemia-online.de - website of the magazine.
  5. ↑ a b Bohemia magazine. In: Collegium-Carolinum.de.
  6. ↑ a b Bohemia. Journal of the history and culture of the Czech lands. Presentation with links up to the 1999 issues. In: H-Soz-Kult , October 28, 2016.
  7. ^ A b Claire Vital: Bohemia. Journal of the history and culture of the Czech lands. Review. In: Recensio-Regio.net. Review Platform for Regional History , January 23, 2018.
  8. ↑ Dr. Christiane Brenner. In: Collegium-Carolinum.de.
  9. ^ Klaus Graf: “Bohemia” magazine online. In: Archivalia , May 22, 2013.