About the Journal
The Journal of Onomastics (NI) has existed since 1964. Originally started by Leipzig Germanists, Slavists and historians, the journal is now published on behalf of the Philological Faculty of the University of Leipzig, and is the flagship publication of the Gesellschaft für Namenforschung e.V. (GfN). Between 1994 and 2016 the journal’s production costs were covered by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
The journal is published as an annual volume in print and, since 2023, has appeared simultaneously in an online edition (Gold Open Access). The focus is on all aspects of name research, including especially their interdisciplinary relations. Publication languages are German, English and French.
Incoming contributions are peer-reviewed by a scientific advisory board.
The journal Namenkundliche Informationen (NI) is an open-access journal. All contributions are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license and can be used freely under the terms of the license. Users are entitled to read, download, copy, share, print, search, link to, or use the full texts of the articles for other lawful purposes without prior permission from the editors or authors. This complies with the Open Access definition of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).
No exclusive transfer of exploitation rights (Copyright Transfer) to the journal takes place. By submitting their manuscripts, the authors agree to publication under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.
The journal charges a publication fee (Article Processing Charges) of 200 Euros per article if it is institutionally funded (by a university, DFG, FWF, SNF, or similar).
Long-term archiving of the e-journal is secured by the hosting provider of the publication software, the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), via SLUBArchiv.digital. This infrastructure serves as the digital long-term archive to preserve a copy of anything published in Saxony to which the library is mandated by state law.
