Acco Research: Publishing academic research with Acco
Acco is an educational and scientific publisher, founded in 1960 in the university city of Leuven. As a cooperative society, we aim to disseminate scientific knowledge in the best possible way for science, education and lifelong learning. We have offices in Belgium and the Netherlands and produce books and digital products for the national and international market. The publishing division Acco Research focuses on the academic publishing market, in both open and free access formats.
Acco Research actively supports academics from universities and colleges in publishing their scientific research. It offers various services (academic services including peer reviews) and publishing formulas for this purpose, both in digital (Open Access or Free Access) and printed form.
Academic services
Acco Research’s services include the organisation and coordination of double-blind peer reviews (either in collaboration with the relevant editorial board or independently), administrative processing of GPRC files, language editing (native speaker), design and layout into digital and print-ready files (cover and interior), printing (POD), distribution (digital and physical) and communication.
Acco Research conduct a double-blind peer review procedure for its academic publications in the open access formula (see infra), in accordance with the requirements of the GPRC standard.
Digital products
Open Access
Digital publication (with Print On Demand), including peer review, distribution, DOI and Creative Commons Licence. Open Access greatly increases the visibility and impact (citations, references, follow-up research) of scientific research results.
Thanks to Acco Research’s Open Access formula, a scientific research publication is immediately digitally and freely accessible worldwide to everyone inside and outside the academic community from the day of publication, without an embargo period. Acco Research offers a paid printed version (POD) of each Open Access publication via its own webshop.
Authors can choose between the following open access licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
The digital Open Access publications at Acco Research are financed by a third party (Open Access Diamond) or via Book Processing Charges via the author (Open Access Gold). Quotation on request.
Free Access
Free digital publication with a paid printed version, but without prior peer review. Both the digital and printed versions are available via the Acco webshop (and possibly third parties).
Free Access is financed by a third party (usually the research institution) after a customised quote.
Printed products
For the financing of all academic products and services, a customised quotation is made based on cost price and market. For information or (price) questions, please email acco.research@acco.be.
With peer review and GPRC label
Academic research can also be published as a traditional printed book, with prior peer review and GPRC label.
Without prior peer review
Scientific research can be published as a traditional printed book, a positioning or conference paper, without prior peer review (with or without internal peer review).
Digital product als printed version
Any digital product (see above) can be given a printed version if desired.
Doctoral service
Acco Print & Productions is the market leader in Flanders for publishing/printing doctoral theses. Using the automated online tool www.doctoratenservice.be, doctoral students from all Flemish universities can print and publish their doctoral theses in a high-quality manner, with or without additional guidance from Acco staff. From the basic formula (most affordable) to the upgraded version.
Open Access titles
The three OA titles that we are including with this application were produced in collaboration with the University of Antwerp. These titles can be downloaded free of charge from the University of Antwerp website and/or the Acco webshop. A paper version can be purchased from the Acco webshop. You can find the pages with the paper version here:
You can find the pages with the paper version here:
- Armoede en Ongelijkheid. Jaarboek armoede 2024
- Armoede en ongelijkheid. Jaarboek armoede 2023
- Armoede en sociale uitsluiting. Jaarboek armoede 2022
The Open Access downloads can be found on the website of the University of Antwerp:
Editorial board
The editorial board that supervised the peer review process and was responsible for the selection of the authors consisted of:
- JILL COENE, sociologist and research assistant at the University Foundation for Poverty Reduction (USAB) at the University of Antwerp.
- HEIDI DEGERICKX, PhD in Social Work and is the general coordinator of the Network Against Poverty.
- CAROLINE DEWILDE, associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Tilburg University.
- MARLIES D’HERTOGE housing policy officer at the Network Against Poverty.
- TUUR GHYS, professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Mexico.
- BERNARD HUBEAU, emeritus professor at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Antwerp.
- SARAH MARCHAL, tenure track lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Antwerp. She is affiliated with the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy.
- ROY REMMEN, emeritus professor of general practice (University of Antwerp) and general practitioner in Baarle-Hertog.
- HENK VAN HOOTEGEM, coordinator of the Support Centre for Combating Poverty, Precariousness and Social Exclusion.