Complexity, Governance & Networks - Special Issue: Complexity, Innovation and Policy (2017) 1
Message from the editors 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20377/cgn-37 

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University of Bamberg Press 

Message from the editors 

This special issue on the coevolution of innovation and public policy is the first issue of 
Complexity, Governance & Networks to be published by our new publisher, the University of 
Bamberg Press (UBP).  

UBP, an academic publisher from Germany, receives financial support from the Otto-
Friedrich University of Bamberg and the German science foundation to publish our journal 
through an open source, open access framework. Because of this support, UBP will be able to 
publish it open access under the creative commons license and will not charge authors for the 
articles published in it. In other words: all the articles published in our journal will be freely 
available to anyone with an internet connection, nothing will be hidden behind paywalls. This 
way, the articles published in the journal will have greater visibility. Complexity, Governance & 
Networks will be indexed in all relevant databases (e.g. Scopus and Web of Science) and its 
contents will be searchable through them. Open access publishing will also give authors greater 
control over their publications: they can distribute them freely without prior consent.  

The transition towards an open access journal will not diminish our focus on publishing 
high-quality papers. All manuscripts submitted to Complexity, Governance & Networks will be 
subjected to a thorough double-blind review process to ensure that only the best publications will 
appear in the journal.  

The back catalogue of our journal has been taken over by UBP and all the articles published 
in previous issues will be available to download, for free, at the website of Complexity, Governance 
& Networks: http://ubp.uni-bamberg.de/ojs/index.php/cgn  

UBP uses a different manuscript review and editing platform than the one our journal used 
before. It may take a few additional minutes for the authors and reviewers who are familiar with 
the old platform (Manuscript Tracker) to adjust to the layout out of the new platform (Open 
Journal Systems: see http://ubp.uni-bamberg.de/ojs/index.php/cgn/about/submissions for the 
submission system, and https://pkp.sfu.ca/ for more information on OJS), but we believe that 
this will not create major difficulties in submitting manuscripts or reviews. In any case, authors 
and reviewers will receive clear instructions on how to proceed.  

Many people have worked hard behind the scenes to bring Complexity, Governance & 
Networks to this point. As the editors-in-chief of the journal, we want to thank everyone who has 
contributed to the journal: the editors of the special issues, the authors as well as the reviewers. 
We also want to express our gratitude to Mrs. Barbara Ziegler, Mrs. Ulrike Wiesner, Mrs. Silke 
Raffel and Mr. Martin Wirtz for their continuous efforts to make everything work, and the Otto-
Friedrich University of Bamberg for allocating the resources necessary to support the publication 
of Complexity, Governance & Networks.   

The editors in chief, 

Prof. Dr. Lasse Gerrits 

Prof. Dr. Göktuğ Morçöl 

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