Journal History

HiN - Alexander von Humboldt in the Net was founded in 2000 in the wake of the bi-centenary of Humboldt's voyage to the Americas (1799-1804). The journal soon became one of the leading references in Alexander von Humboldt Studies.

With articles published in German, English, Spanish, and French, the journal reaches an international readership in fields such as cultural and literary history, history of art, historical epistemology and history of science.

Since 2002, HiN has published all its articles both in HTML and PDF. The journal received its first major design update in 2008. The publication of HiN XVI, 31 (2015) marks a major relaunch in the journal's history. The journal was rebuild from scratch with Open Journal Systems (OJS) as its underlying content management system. Part of this relaunch is a completely new design, both for HTML and PDF, as well as metadata indexing through DataCite and a multilingual interface.

Parallel to the digital publication (HTML/PDF), HiN is being published as a print version since 2018. Finally, in 2019, all the issues since the first number of 2000 came out in printed form. For this purpose, the data of all volumes was converted and typeset in the standard current layout. Since May of 2019, the slipcase edition with all numbers of HiN 1–34 as well as every single issue of the journal of HiN 1–38 can be ordered online as a print copy in the webshop of the Potsdam University Press.

More information:

• 10 Questions on the new slipcase edition (in German)
  An interview with Ottmar Ette and Tobias Kraft by Matthias Zimmermann

• HiN Slipcase Edition: HiN I, 1 (2000) – HiN XVIII, 34 (2017)

• HiN single Issue: HiN I, 1 (2000) – HiN XIX, 37 (2018)

• The current issue: HiN XX, 38 (2019)