The online journal transfer is an academic publication platform in the area of provenance research and the history of collection as well as adjacent fields of investigation, like art market studies, reception history, cultural sociology, or legal history. Semiannual issues are published exclusively online in Diamond Open Access. Research articles and research reports, to be submitted in English or German, are subject to double-blind peer-review. All submissions undergo an internal evaluation by the editors supported by the advisory board and receive professional copy-editing before publication. The journal is based at the Research Centre for Provenance Research, Art and Cultural Property Law at the University of Bonn and at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts. transfer receives funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Webhosting is provided by our partner institution Heidelberg University Library via arthistoricum.net1.
Website: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transfer2
Editors: Ulrike Saß & Christoph Zuschlag
Journal Management: Florian Schönfuß
Advisory Board: Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V., dbv-Kommission Provenienzforschung und Provenienzerschließung, Uwe Fleckner, Didier Houénoudé, Larissa Förster, Gilbert Lupfer, Antoinette Maget-Dominicé, Barbara Kristina Murovec, Gesa Vietzen
Open Call for Submissions
transfer is an interdisciplinary, cross-epoch and international journal. It primarily addresses a scholarly audience. Besides experienced researchers, transfer equally aims at early career researchers, including PhD students, offering broad impact and high accessibility for the publication of recent research. Abstaining from any author
charges or other publication fees, transfer provides a free of cost, Diamond Open Access platform assuring research quality as well as transparency, fostering research interconnection and the crossing of disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Authors are invited to submit papers on the following fields of interest:
- Translocation of art and cultural assets
- Art and cultural property law
- Culture of remembrance, Cultural identity, Collective memory
- Collections, History of collection
- Art trade, Art market studies
- Art policy
- Sociology of art, Cultural sociology
- Restitution, Return, Repatriation
- Provenance research on individual objects or object groups
- Archival holdings, Primary sources
Please find further information regarding submissions, text categories, peer-review as well as our Style Sheet3 on the journal-website4 or contact us under redaktion.transfer@uni-bonn.de.
The submission deadline for the fourth issue is June 15th 2025.