BuR – Business Research is the official journal of the German Academic Association of Business Research. It electronically publishes high-quality articles and offers an open access to all interested readers. It will thus ensure the widest possible dissemination worldwide as already shown by some highly successful natural science journals.
The journal offers the following advantages:
- BuR is free: Readers have free access to all articles and supplemented material. Articles are read and cited by an international audience. After all, research is a public good.
- BuR offers fast publication: It guarantees a review of a maximum of ten weeks with a definite decision after a maximum of 2 rounds. Accepted papers will immediately appear in a preview section before integrated into issues.
- BuR is widely disseminated: Papers can be downloaded by everybody in the world. BuR will be indexed by major databases, and articles can also be found through search engines like Google.
- BuR makes research internationally visible: The authors get high visibility with a higher chance to get cited compared to traditional proprietary journals.
- BuR has been financially supported by DFG, German Science Foundation: DFG supports the leading journal in the respective fields to transform the proprietary publication process into one of high-quality, high-speed and open access.
- BuR is an electronic journal: This allows for the publication of not only text but also videos, spreadsheets, data sets.
- BuR is broad: The journal’s broad scope is designed to cover both traditional fields of business administration and cross-functional, multidisciplinary research that reflects the complex character of business problems. Of particular interest are articles devoted to developing novel perspectives or exploring new domains of research. Business Research is not tied to any particular subfield, type of analysis, or national context.
- BuR is long-term preserved: BuR is hosted by hbz Cologne. Being part of a major library center, the journal falls under the preservation scope of a major library support institution, thus guaranteeing long-term preservation of the journal content in perpetuity.
BuR was established with the help of USB Cologne.