Call for Papers: transfer – Journal for Provenance Research and Collection History

The dig­i­tal jour­nal trans­fer is a schol­ar­ly pub­li­ca­tion for­mat for con­tri­bu­tions to prove­nance re­search and col­lec­tion his­to­ry, as well as to neigh­bor­ing re­search fields such as art mar­ket re­search, re­cep­tion his­to­ry, cul­tur­al so­ci­ol­o­gy, and le­gal his­to­ry.

The an­nu­al pub­li­ca­tion of the ar­ti­cles is done on an open ac­cess ba­sis. The qual­i­ty of full-length ar­ti­cles in Ger­man and En­glish is as­sured by a peer-re­view pro­cess (dou­ble-blind). Oth­er for­mats are re­viewed in­ter­nal­ly by the ed­i­tors and the ad­vi­so­ry board, which con­sists of in­ter­na­tion­al ex­perts. All con­tri­bu­tions re­ceive pro­fes­sion­al edit­ing and can be com­ment­ed on in a sub­ject-spe­cif­ic man­ner.

The jour­nal is in­sti­tu­tion­al­ly af­fil­i­at­ed with the fol­low­ing prove­nance re­search in­sti­tu­tions: the Forschungsstelle Prove­nien­z­forschung, the Kun­st- und Kul­turgutschutzrecht of the Rheinis­che Friedrich-Wil­helms-Uni­ver­sität Bonn and is sup­port­ed fi­nan­cial­ly by the Deutsche Forschungs­ge­mein­schaft. The tech­ni­cal project part­ner is Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty Li­brary, which pro­vides host­ing via arthis­toricum.net.

The jour­nal sees it­self as an in­ter­dis­ci­plinary pub­li­ca­tion span­ning epochs and with an in­ter­na­tion­al fo­cus.
It pri­mar­i­ly ad­dress­es read­ers from the sci­en­tif­ic and aca­dem­ic com­mu­ni­ty. In ad­di­tion to es­tab­lished re­searchers, trans­fer would al­so like to of­fer young sci­en­tists and aca­demics a plat­form for the broad­ly ef­fec­tive and bar­ri­er-free pub­li­ca­tion of their own re­search re­sults. By means of a rapid and qual­i­ty-as­sured Open Ac­cess mod­el that is al­so free of charge for au­thors and guest ed­i­tors, trans­fer of­fers a medi­um for main­tain­ing re­search trans­paren­cy, as well as an op­por­tu­ni­ty for un­com­pli­cat­ed re­search net­work­ing across dis­ci­plinary and in­sti­tu­tion­al bound­aries. Pro­fes­sion­al long-term archiv­ing, web OPAC list­ing and repos­i­to­ry in­dex­ing guar­an­tee the long-term sourc­ing of the con­tri­bu­tions on the web.

The ed­i­tors wel­come con­tri­bu­tions in Ger­man or En­glish that are ded­i­cat­ed to the fol­low­ing top­ics:

• Art and cul­tur­al as­set trans­fer in dif­fer­ent his­tor­i­cal-po­lit­i­cal and spa­tial con­texts
• Col­lec­tion his­to­ry
• Art trade
• Mem­o­ry cul­ture and pol­i­tics, cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty, col­lec­tive mem­o­ry
• Cul­tur­al so­ci­o­log­i­cal as­pects
• Con­tri­bu­tions to the bi­og­ra­phy of nat­u­ral per­sons
• In­sti­tu­tion­al his­to­ry
• Resti­tu­tion, re­turn, repa­tri­a­tion
• Prove­nance re­search on in­di­vid­u­al ob­jects or ob­ject groups
• Rel­e­vant archival hold­ings, source tran­scrip­tions and an­no­ta­tions.
• Le­gal and fi­nan­cial as­pects
• Art pol­i­tics, pro­tec­tion of art and cul­tur­al as­sets

Pub­lish­er: Ul­rike Saß & Christoph Zuschlag
Ed­i­to­ri­al Sup­port: Flo­ri­an Schön­fuß
Ad­vi­so­ry Board: Prove­nance Re­search As­so­ci­a­tion, dbv-Kom­mis­sion Prove­nien­z­forschung und Prove­nien­z­er­schließung, Uwe Fleck­n­er, Laris­sa Förster, Gilbert Lupfer, An­toinette Maget-Do­minicé, Gesa Vi­et­zen

The dead­line for sub­mis­sions for the first an­nu­al is­sue in 2022 is May 1, 2022.
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