Information for member of the Consortium
OLEcon encourage Diamond Open Access
OLEcon offers the opportunity to support sustainable funding of scholarly journals through a financial engagement in the consortium.
Consortial funding model for OLEcon journals
OLEcon journals are published in Diamond Open Access.
In order to ensure Open Access for the OLEcon journals in the long term, ZBW organises a funding consortium. You can support OLEcon with a financial commitment to the consortium.
ZBW organises the consortium. You can join or leave the consortium every year.
Do you have further questions? Have a look at our questions page to see if we already have an answer to your question. You can also contact us at any time via olecon@zbw-online.eu.
New round of funding 2026
The funding round for 2026 started.
The following journals are part of the 2025 bundle:
- German Journal of Agricultural Economics (GJAE)
- European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies (EJEEP)
- Junior Management Science (JUMS)
- Vierteljahreshefte zur Arbeits- und Wirtschaftsforschung (VAW)
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You can find the product matrix with all important information as well as the order form here.
The Open Library Economics journals are also supported proportionally by start-up funding from the ZBW – Leibniz Information Center for Economics and by project funds from the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research).
Information sessions about the consortium:
The information sessions about the consortium:
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OLEKonsort
The financing of Diamond Open Access is a desideratum. Stable funding is particularly important for science-led publications that appear independently of large commercial publishers. The OLEKonsort project aims to establish a stable and sustainable consortium for the collaborative funding of science-led Diamond Open Access journals in the economic sciences. With this project, the ZBW aims to promote the professionalization of consortium-based financing of science-led publications.
The consortium for the financing of an economics journal package is stabilized via several mechanisms. Firstly, the planned consortium will rely on the extensive participation of funding institutions. Secondly, as a reinforcing element, the project planning includes a concept for community development and management in order to bind the funding institutions closely to the consortium as a community of interest in the long term. Thirdly, the concept provides the involvement of the users of the journal package, e.g. the publishers or members of the editorial board. As stakeholders, they flank the communication of the ZBW and convey the relevance of the respective journals from the perspective of economic researchers. Fourthly, the ZBW is developing a monitoring system that can be used to measure the success of the consortium.
The institutions participating in the consortium in 2025:
The institutions participating in the consortium in 2025:
You can download the list with all institutions of the consortium 2025 here.
Reporting 2024
A list of the institutions that participated in the 2024 consortium can be found here.
