All SciPost Journals are subscription-free, two-way open access (free for readers, free for authors) online journals.
Manuscripts submitted to SciPost undergo the extremely stringent peer-witnessed refereeing process, guaranteeing that papers published in SciPost Journals meet the highest possible academic standards.
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All SciPost publications will obtain a unique DOI, enabling citations and metrics as per other journals.
No. SciPost publications or submissions under consideration for publication in SciPost Journals must not be submitted elsewhere.
All SciPost contents are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License. Under this license, authors agree to make their articles available for reuse without permission or fees, for virtually any purpose. Anyone may copy, distribute or reuse these articles as long as the author(s) and original source are properly cited. This is the standard license used worldwide in open access journals.
Yes. SciPost is here to stay, and authors should not worry that their SciPost publications could potentially disappear. This would require the dismantling not only of SciPost, but also of the arXiv (where the published version of the SciPost papers (with unique DOI identifier) can be posted by the authors).
SciPost Commentaries is a repository of Commentary Pages on scientific publications. Each Commentary Page contains some relevant summary info about the publication (such as Title, Author(s), DOI link to published version, abstract, ...), followed by Comments from Contributors and Author and Contributor Replies.
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The publishing landscape is evolving rapidly, and it is not clear that the best interests of science and scientists are being represented. SciPost offers a grassroots solution to the problem of scientific publishing, designed and implemented by scientists in the best interests of science itself.
The initial rollout of SciPost offers a Physics portal.
Portals in other disciplines will be opened if the SciPost model proves to be successful.
SciPost operates non-commercially, encurring minimal costs. Contributors, who are by definition all academically employed, provide all the content and perform all editorial tasks as part of their normal institutional academic duties. Operations are kept running by a team of volunteer officers, themselves academically employed.
Support for operational costs is initially provided by the NWO in the Netherlands. Long-term operations will be financed by donations from national funding agencies, universities, societies, foundations and individuals. If you are interested in financially supporting SciPost, contact us.