Kunz, Raffaela

Pogies, Christian R. J.

Tuchtfeld, Erik

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Introducing Völkerrechtsblog 3.0Christian Pogies, Erik Tuchtfeld, RaffaelaKunz2020-09-14T00:00:00Welcome to Völkerrechtsblog 3.0! We are very happy to introduce you to ourcompletely redesigned and modernized website. Six years into its existence,Völkerrechtsblog receives a new logo and design that has been remodelled to makeit more modern, accessible and easier to navigate.Some of you might remember our early days – Völkerrechtsblog went online in 2014with a basic wordpress page created by a group of PhD students with the idea to usethe opportunities and spaces the internet offers for international legal scholarship.Ever since, Völkerrechtsblog has been growing and expanding. Our readershipalmost tripled in the last years, and our statistics show that there is almost no countryin the world where Völkerrechtsblog is not read. We adjusted the blog to thosechanging circumstances several times; in 2016, we relaunched the blog for thefirst time with the support of our partners and sponsors; thanks to the funding fromthe German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft),Völkerrechtsblog now receives a fully professional make-over.What is new?You will immediately see how different our site looks. The simple new design givesit a much fresher and more contemporary look. The frontpage is clean and containssome new information, including about the most-read articles of the last weeks. Thenew frontend does not only present our recent articles, it also gives an overviewabout our recent symposia and other published content. Furthermore, we aimto make the experience more personal for you, our readers, by introducing themembers of our editorial team step-by-step on the frontpage.But not only that – the new site also includes some new features. Some of themare small, like the new “print” function next to each article which makes it easier todownload and save posts or the improved editorial team section. Others are moresubstantial, like our new media section. One of the advantages of blogs is that theycan keep with time, and we therefore decided to give more importance to multimediacontent, with a section dedicated to videos and podcasts. Even though we took thisdecision already last summer, the Corona year 2020 proved that we were right withthis decision. Despite the fact that the media-section is still a little empty right now,you can be thrilled about what the near future will bring!Of particular importance to us is also the improved search function. Our archive,which gives the blog a more library-like feeling, is supposed to make it easier tonavigate through posts and topics. This should not only help our readers to use theblog better for their research, it also keeps the older articles of our authors present.The approach also connects with the overall idea to give our authors more visibility- 1 -– not least with the new authors’ pictures and the overview of all authors and thearticles they published on our blog.Finally, the engine room of our blog has been remodelled, too. The technical detailsof our publication process have been streamlined and simplified, meaning thatwe have more time for our editorial work and the development of new ideas andprojects. Apart from that, we are taking your privacy even more serious now: nopersonal data is collected or transferred to any external actor without your explicitconsent.Our core remains the same!But in many ways, the new site sticks to what we consider to be our core identity.Our aim is and remains to provide a platform for exchange and discussion forthe international legal community. Besides publishing articles, we will keep onadvertising job offers, international law events and calls for papers (a separate poston our new service section will go online this afternoon).Equally importantly, all content on Völkerrechtsblog is and will remain Open Access.The importance we give to the principle of open knowledge is not least reflectedin the blue colour very present on our new page, reminiscing the colour used forhyperlinks since the early days of the Internet. This is not only to remind our visitorsthat, despite experimenting with new things, we always want to stick to our foundingideal: making knowledge accessible and free for everyone.Join the debate!We hope you enjoy our new website and we welcome your feedback via thecomment function below or via e-mail, as we will keep on improving the newsite. Last but definitely not least, Völkerrechtsblog continues to live through theengagement of the international legal community and the character of opendiscourse. As always, we therefore invite you to engage in discussions and to handin your contributions at the Völkerrechtsblog.Do you have any suggestions, comments or critique for us? Please tell us! We areonly one e-mail away: editorial-team@voelkerrechtsblog.org.- 2 -

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