Foundation of an Open Access Journal for German Media Didactics

该项目的目的是将自2002年以来以纸质出版物形式发行的德国文学和语言课上的AG Medien年鉴转换为开放获取期刊MiDU （Medien im Deutschunterricht / Media in German literature and language classes）。因此，其基础是一个开放期刊系统（OJS）实体，该实体将在Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln上建立，以便在未来也支持其他数字出版项目。新的电子期刊《MiDU》将成为一个面向全球开放的论坛，为德国媒体教学领域的理论和实证研究提供平台。这将使研究成果更容易被发现和广泛分布，也将建立一个更强大的跨学科网络。更重要的是，数字平台为更充分地代表媒体作为研究对象提供了先决条件，例如通过将音频和视频文件整合到期刊文章中。因此，通过MiDU，将引入一个多模式学术写作实验形式的论坛。通过双盲审评、编辑审评和公开审评相结合的方式来保证网络期刊的质量。MiDU是一个试点项目，旨在维持和促进德国语言文学教学专业社区对开放获取出版的接受。此外，它可能成为德意志会议其他工作组的榜样。

The aim of the project is to convert the yearbook of the AG Medien in the Symposion Deutschdidaktik e.V. (SDD), which is released as print publication since 2002, into the Open Access Journal MiDU (Medien im Deutschunterricht / Media in German literature and language classes). Therefore, the basis is an Open Journal Systems (OJS) entity which will be established at the Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln in order to support other projects in digital publication in the future, too. The new E-Journal MiDU will be a forum with open and worldwide access for theoretical and empirical research in the field of German media didactics. This will allow the research contributions to be easily found and widly ranged and will also build a stronger interdisciplinary networking. What is more, the digital platform provides the preconditions for a more adequate representation of media as object of research, e.g. by integrating audio and video files into the journal’s articles. Hence, through MiDU a forum for experimental forms of multimodal academic writing will be introduced. The quality of the online journal will be warrented through a combination of a double-blind-review-system, an editorial review system and an open review system. MiDU is intended as a pilot project which aims to sustain and foster the acceptance of open access publishing in the professional community of German language and literature didactics. Furthermore, it might become a role model for other working groups in the Symposion Deutschdidaktik.