About the Journal
The journal Namenkundliche Informationen (NI) is published by the Gesellschaft für Namenforschung (GfN) e.V. and the Faculty of Philology at the University of Leipzig. It represents six decades of tradition in international onomastics research.
The Online Edition
Starting from volume 95/96 (2009), all volumes of NI are available online as searchable PDF documents.
Since 2023, the online edition is published simultaneously with the print edition (Gold Open Access).
The older volumes 15 (1969) to 93/94 (2008) have been digitized retroactively. The resulting PDF documents are image scans that are also searchable.
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.
The Print Edition
Since 1964, the journal Namenkundliche Informationen has been published in print, and since 1992 by the Leipzig University Press. The annual volumes can be ordered individually or by subscription.
Publisher's Address
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E-Mail: info@univerlag-leipzig.de
