SciPost

SciPost is a non-profit foundation dedicated to developing, implementing and maintaining innovative forms of electronic scientific communication and publishing. It is notable for operating the scipost.org open-access scientific publishing portal.

SciPost
SciPost logo
Founded2016
FounderJean-Sébastien Caux
Country of originInternational
Headquarters locationAmsterdam, The Netherlands
Publication typesAcademic journals
Nonfiction topicsScience
Official websitescipost.org

The SciPost Foundation

The foundation is headquartered in Amsterdam and registered under Dutch Chamber of Commerce. It was established in 2016.[1] Its chairman is Jean-Sébastien Caux, with Joost van Mameren acting as secretary, and Jasper van Wezel as treasurer.

Open Access publishing activities

Journals
Title ISSN Launched Impact factor
SciPost Physics 2542-4653[2] 2016[3] 5.051 (2019)
SciPost Physics Core 2666-9366[4] 2019 not yet assigned
SciPost Physics Lecture Notes 2590-1990[5] 2018 not yet assigned
SciPost Physics Proceedings 2666-4003[6] 2019 not yet assigned

Authors are encouraged to make use of preprint servers (for physics, the arXiv e-print archive) but can also submit directly. The recommendation of using preprints leads to SciPost often being thought of as an overlay journals system.[7][8] This is incorrect since the platform self-hosts all its publishing workflows and results.

Refereeing at SciPost uses an open procedure known as peer-witnessed refereeing. Submitted manuscripts must be picked up for editorial processing by one of the Fellows of an Editorial College. Besides invited referees, registered contributors can also volunteer reports. The contents of the reports are made publicly visible (the referee can choose to remain anonymous or not). Publication decisions are taken by the Editorial College by majority voting.

Publications carry a Creative Commons license. Metadata is deposited at Crossref and at the DOAJ[9] (all journals carry to DOAJ Seal[9]). As a participant in the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), SciPost makes all its citation data open.

Business model

SciPost is funded through a consortial business model whereby universities and research funding agencies worldwide contribute to pooled resources used to run operations. No article processing charges are levied. Sponsors and further benefitting organizations are publicly listed with tallies of linked publications. This data is used to suggest sponsorship levels for sustainability.

The SciPost model resembles the one used by the Open Library of Humanities and is similarly mentioned in discussions on the reform of publishing business models.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

Organizations which have sponsored SciPost in its early stage include the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research),[17] the University of Melbourne, the Max Planck Society / Max Planck Digital Library,[18] the University of Amsterdam, CERN, the EPFL,[19] TU Dortmund,[20] VSNU,[21] OpenAIRE, the University of Lorraine, University of Bern,[22] the University of Queensland, Technical University Munich,[23] Forschungszentrum Jülich, Johannes Kepler University Linz,[24] Delft University of Technology, Stockholm University,[25] VU Amsterdam, Heidelberg University, Leiden University, an Austrian national consortium led by the FWF[26] Austrian Science Fund.

Community feedback

In the context of Plan S, Robert-Jan Smits singled out SciPost and suggested classifying it as a "Rhodium" publisher.[27] In a Nature editorial on the evolution of journals into "information platforms", SciPost was qualified as "most impressive".[28]

See also

References
  1. "SciPost charter" (PDF).
  2. "ISSN 2542-4653 (Online) | SciPost physics | The ISSN Portal". portal.issn.org.
  3. "Open access platform SciPost launches inaugural edition of first journal". University of Amsterdam. 27 October 2016.
  4. "ISSN 2666-9366 (Online) | SciPost physics core | The ISSN Portal". portal.issn.org.
  5. "ISSN 2590-1990 (Online) | SciPost physics lecture notes | The ISSN Portal". portal.issn.org.
  6. "ISSN 2666-4003 (Online) | SciPost physics proceedings | The ISSN Portal". portal.issn.org.
  7. Innovations, 101 (October 22, 2018). "Eight routes towards Plan S compliance".CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. Innovations, 101 (February 8, 2019). "Plan S feedback".CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. "Directory of Open Access Journals". doaj.org.
  10. "Tougher than physics: SciPost sets the stage for Open Access". digitalscholarshipleiden.nl.
  11. "BEYOND APCS: ALTERNATIVE OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING BUSINESS MODELS". OpenAIRE.
  12. "Green Open Access Journals and SciPost". August 31, 2017.
  13. Hyland, Jack; Kouker, Alexander; Zaitsev, Dmitri (February 26, 2020). "Open Access eXchange (OAeX): an economic model and platform for fundraising open scholarship services". Insights. 33 (1): 8. doi:10.1629/uksg.500 – via insights.uksg.org.
  14. Severin, Anna; Egger, Matthias; Eve, Martin Paul; Hürlimann, Daniel (March 26, 2020). "Discipline-specific open access publishing practices and barriers to change: an evidence-based review". F1000Research. 7: 1925. doi:10.12688/f1000research.17328.2 – via DOI.org (Crossref).
  15. "OA2020 Expression of Interest".
  16. "Guest Post — An Open Agenda: European Funder Approaches to Open Science". The Scholarly Kitchen. February 26, 2020.
  17. "FAQ". www.nwo.nl.
  18. "Max Planck supports SciPost - MPDL". www.mpdl.mpg.de.
  19. Library, Epfl (January 25, 2018). "Open Access publishing: new partnerships" – via actu.epfl.ch. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  20. "UB-Blog » Blog Archive » TU Dortmund Mitglied bei SciPost".
  21. "Publication platforms: Putting researchers in control". www.vsnu.nl.
  22. "Evaluating OA Journals, Publication Charges and Funding". Portal. July 11, 2019.
  23. "TUM new partner at SciPost | TUM University Library". www.ub.tum.de.
  24. "SciPost Physics / OA". www.jku.at.
  25. "SciPost - Library".
  26. "Detail". www.fwf.ac.at.
  27. "Plan S explained by Robert-Jan Smits". November 2, 2018 – via Vimeo.
  28. "Rise of the platforms". www.nature.com.
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