CENTAURUS Journal of the European Society for the History of Science

To celebrate open access week (19-25 October 2026) we are pleased to feature the journal Centaurus-Journal of the European Society for the History of Science. 

Centaurus publishes high-quality academic content on the history of science in the broadest sense, including the history of mathematics, medicine, biomedical sciences, earth sciences, social sciences, humanities and technology, studied from different perspectives, including epistemic, social, cultural, material and technical aspects. It also invites contributions that build a bridge between history of science and other disciplines.

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Centaurus is Diamond Open Access: its content is freely accessible without any cost to readers or authors through a partnership between the ESHS and Brepols. Rather than relying on Article Processing Charges (APCs), like most Open Access journals, Centaurus is first and foremost funded through subscriptions from libraries and other institutions under the Subscribe-to-Open model. This model offers a more equitable and sustainable alternative to the Gold Open Access model based on APCs, as it is supported by the community of history of science scholars and mobilises resources to make scholarly content broadly accessible and visible. 

Centaurus’ Diamond Open Access status is, however, not guaranteed. Only when a sufficient number of libraries and institutions continuously subscribe, can it remain Diamond Open Access. Therefore, we kindly invite you to contact your librarian, requesting them to subscribe to Centaurus.

Benefits for participating institutions: by participating in the S2O pilot for Centaurus, libraries benefit from preferential subscription rates until 31 March 2026. Participating institutions also receive complimentary read-only access to the complete archive of Archeion- Archivio di Storia della Scienza (25 vols., 1919-1943), providing their users with seamless access to a valuable corpus of scholarship.

Subscription rates Centaurus 69 (1-2-3-4)/2027 (excl. VAT):

  • Until 31 March 2027 (incl. shipping): Print: € 449 – Print & Online: € 467 – Online: € 384
  • From 1 April 2027 onwards (incl. shipping): Print: € 491 – Print & Online: € 511 – Online: € 426

Brepols is proud to recognize the following institutions as supporters of our Subscribe to Open pilot:

  • Bibliothek des Inst. für Medizin-, geschichte und Wissenschaftsforschung, Lübeck, Germany
  • Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
  • Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK
  • Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA, USA 
  • Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME, USA
  • Cambridge University, Cambridge, USA
  • Central European University, Vienna, Austria
  • Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Leopoldina e.V, Halle, Germany
  • Deutsches Museum, von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft, München, Germany
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Huntington Library, San Marino CA, USA
  • Iowa State University, Ames IA, USA
  • Leiden University Libraries, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • MPI für Wissenschaftgeschichte, Berlin, Germany
  • Museo Galileo, Firenze, Italy
  • National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece
  • National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD, USA
  • Princeton University Library, Princeton NJ, USA 
  • Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
  • Università di Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
  • Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
  • Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
  • Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • University Library Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, USA
  • University of Puget Sound, Tacoma WA, USA
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN, USA
  • University of Washington Libraries, Seattle WA, USA