ScienceOpen is thrilled to introduce the Open Press Tilburg University (Open TiU), offering interdisciplinary research across the humanities, law, technology and beyond. Open TiU is a diamond Open Access platform, meaning that its services are free for both authors and readers. Aiming to accelerate Open Access in scholarly publishing, Open TiU believes that every researcher should be able to access scholarly information, and every scholar should have the resources to publish high-quality Open Access works. We are proud to kick off four of five journal collections by Open Press Tilburg University with an additional title coming soon.

Open to All, Free for All

Open TiU was launched in 2020 as a diamond Open Access platform for the Tilburg University community. Now, Open Tiu welcomes academic proposals from all students, scholars, and researchers looking for a supportive and flexible environment for Open Access publication. The platform also invites reviewers and librarians, funders and all those interested in furthering the transition to open, sustainable and inclusive scholarly publication to get involved. Contact TiU for further information on how to contribute.

Explore The Collections:

Aesthetic Investigations

Aesthetic Investigations is a journal that aims to generate philosophical discussion about art, aesthetics and their role in society. Explore the Aesthetic Investigations catalogue for scholarly debate on a wide range of art forms:

• Review of Gualeni and Fassone’s Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play (2022)  
• Part of the people or apart from the people?: A critical note on the liberal feminism of Barbie (2023) 
• What (if any) aesthetics of everyday experience should we have? 
• A Modal Ontology of Imagination: New conversations in neo-Kantian and everyday aesthetics 
• Why It Matters Who Poses

Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions

Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions is the bi-annual journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE). It is a collection of philosophical publications that consider affect and emotion through the study of metaphysics, phenomenology, sociology, ethics, politics, and (cognitive) science of emotion. Find below a selection of recent articles:

• Anger’s Value in the Context of the Climate Movement 
• Locke, Anger and the State 
• Are all emotions social? Embracing a pluralistic understanding of social emotions 
• Loving a Narrator 
• Concurring Emotions, Affective Empathy, and Phenomenal Understanding

Technology and Regulation (TechReg)

Technology and Regulation (TechReg) is an international and interdisciplinary journal publishing research at the intersection of law, technology and society. They are interested in the legal and regulatory challenges posed by developing technologies including the internet, artificial intelligence and robotics. Discover original research from TechReg:

• Reforming Copyright Law for AI-Generated Content: Copyright Protection, Authorship and Ownership 
• Towards Planet Proof Computing: Law and Policy of Data Centre Sustainability in the European Union 
• Constitutionalism as a Way to Decolonize Global Data Law Development 
• Disrupting violence while preserving encryption : A human rights approach 
• Meta’s Pay-or-Okay Model : An analysis under EU Data Protection, Consumer and Competition Law

Into the Magic Circle (IMC)

Into the Magic Circle (IMC) is an interdisciplinary journal that uses cultural and social theory to investigate the play-element of society, politics, culture, arts, and everyday life. Discover articles from IMC that explore the phenomenon and philosophy of game and play through a wide range of approaches across the social sciences and humanities:

• Uncle Sim Wants You! : Playful Warfare
• Playing as Gambling : Blanchot’s Interpretation of Huizinga’s Homo Ludens
• Some Remarks on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Huizinga’s Concept of Play in Current Debates : By Way of Introduction
• Homo Ludens Today
• Order of Play : Disorder of the World

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