CrimRxiv Consortium

Max Planck Institute joins criminology’s global open access hub

CrimRxiv, criminology’s global open access (OA) hub and repository, has announced the CrimRxiv Consortium: an international, institutional network to advance open criminology for impact and social justice. The Consortium launched with seventeen Founding Members from Canada, England, Germany, New Zealand, and United States – amongst them the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security & Law.

“This network is years in the making,” said CrimRxiv’s founder and associate director for sustainability, Scott Jacques, a professor of criminology at Georgia State University. “We will invent, implement, and improve high-ROI ways to make criminology free for everyone.”

“We are honored to be part of the CrimRxiv consortium, and to contribute to making high-level articles on criminology available to both established and early career researchers via open access”, said Jean-Louis van Gelder, Director at the Max Planck Institute and Head of the Department of Criminology.

The Consortium is led by CrimRxiv’s biggest supporters to date:

• University of Manchester (UoM), Department of Criminology, the home of CrimRxiv since March
• UoM, Office for Open Research, a global leader and innovator in OA
• Knowledge Futures (KF), maker of CrimRxiv’s open-source publishing platform, PubPub

They are joined by fourteen world-leading criminology groups:

• Georgia State University, Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group
• John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Research & Evaluation Center
• Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security & Law
• Northeastern University, Center on Crime, Race & Justice
• Simon Fraser University, School of Criminology
• Temple University, Department of Criminal Justice
• UCL, Bentham Project
• Université de Montréal, École de Criminologie
• University of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology, Prisons Research Center
• University of Georgia, Department of Sociology
• University of Missouri—St. Louis, Dept. of Criminology & Criminal Justice
• University of Nebraska Omaha, School of Criminology & Criminal Justice
• University of Texas at Dallas, Criminology & Criminal Justice
• University of Waikato, Te Puna Haumara New Zealand Institute for Security & Crime Science

“This is our field’s most important network of institutional leaders,” Jacques said. “They’re changing our ecosystem from closed to open access. It’s a huge challenge and responsibility. It’s an even bigger opportunity and privilege. Working together is utilitarian.”

To learn more about the CrimRxiv Consortium and discuss opportunities to collaborate, email CrimRxiv’s Founder and Associate Director for Sustainability, Scott Jacques. To connect with Members, email the Consortium’s account. Follow them on Twitter @CrimConsortium.