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Roadmap

At SciPost, we practice complete openness and transparency for all our operations. This means that you can easily peruse all our publications, examine the list of benefitting organizations, see which ones are supporting us, and what that means for our finances and sustainability.

This however only highlights our past activities. What about our future ones?

Our Plans

Transform SciPost into a large-scale, multi-field, multi-level Genuine Open Access publishing infrastructure by upscaling the implementation of our three pillars:
In-house Journals, Hosted Journals and Affiliate Journals

If you are not yet familiar with our three pillars, see this link. Our plans for each can be summarized as follows.

In-house Journals:

  • upscale existing Colleges;
  • expand the portfolio of Journals in existing fields;
  • establish new Colleges and launch field-specific in-house journals in further fields.

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Hosted Journals:

  • support communities wishing to launch a specialized hosted journal using our editorial and financial infrastructure;
  • support communities wishing to shift their existing venue to Diamond publishing (e.g. through the NWO Diamond Open Access Fund) using our infrastructure.

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Affiliate Journals:

  • support independent journals who wish to use our PubFracs business model and use our financial information and reporting facilities.

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Ensure our sustainability, by promoting understanding of and support for our PubFracs business model

We believe this model to be the best antidote to profitmaking and financial obfuscation in publishing. We strive to

  • liaise with academic organizations to ensure familiarity with our business model and increase its levels of adoption;
  • set up long-term agreements to ensure sustainability of our operations;
  • advocate for the installation of proper sustainable funding mechanisms for Diamond;
  • support the sustainability of other Diamond initiatives through our Affiliate Journals network.

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Triggers for Upscaling

We are technically ready to launch operations in other fields; for any given field, we however require that two external preconditions (triggers) be met:

Academic involvement
  • At least 3 field-specific Advisory Board members
  • A field-specific Editorial College with at least 25 committed Fellows
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Support
  • Sufficient Sponsorships to cover the expected workflow (at first, a minimum of one more full-time editorial staff per new field)
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