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journals/templates/journals/SciPostPhys_about.html

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           <h2>Content</h2>
-	  <p>The content format for SciPost Physics is flexible: articles can be short letter-style communications of breakthroughs or in-depth reports of groundbreaking research. There is no minimum or maximum length: the article should however represent a complete, self-contained unit. The target audience can be researchers in many different subject areas, or specialists in one.</p>
+	  <p>The content format for SciPost Physics is flexible: articles can be short letter-style communications of breakthroughs or in-depth reports of groundbreaking research. There is no minimum or maximum length: the article should however constitute a complete, self-contained unit. The target audience can be researchers in many different subject areas, or specialists in one.</p>
 	  <p>The submission format is more demanding than in our other Journals: in addition to the main manuscript, authors must provide a two-page extended abstract detailing:
 	  <ul>
 	    <li>the context to the problem</li>

journals/templates/journals/journals.html

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   <h1 class="highlight" id="physics">Physics Journals</h1>
-  <p>If you are a professional researcher in Physics, irrespective of your area of specialization, then our family of Physics Journals is designed to cover all your professional publishing requirements.</p>
+  <p>If you are a professional researcher in Physics, irrespective of your area of specialization, then our family of Physics Journals is designed to cover all your publishing requirements.</p>
   <p>We offer different venues for different types of material; for research results, we also offer a gradation in terms of significance and editorial requirements.</p>
   <p>Of course, publishing in any of our Journals automatically fulfils all your Open Access mandates, even the most demanding ones.</p>
 
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 	<li><em>Are you willing to make a special effort in conveying these results, in meeting the highest submission standards which we require, and in responding/reacting to any points raised under our toughest refereeing protocol?</em></li>
       </ul>
       <p>If you answered both questions in the affirmative, then consider submitting to <a href="{% url 'scipost:landing_page' 'SciPostPhys' %}">SciPost Physics</a>.</p>
-      <p>On the other hand, if your results represent a significant advance but you desire a simpler submission and refereeing process, then <a href="{% url 'scipost:landing_page' 'SciPostPhysAdv' %}">SciPost Physics Advances</a> will provide you with a more streamlined experience.</p>
+      <p>On the other hand, if your results represent a significant advance but you desire a simpler submission and refereeing process, then <a href="{% url 'scipost:landing_page' 'SciPostPhysAdv' %}">SciPost Physics Commons</a> will provide you with a more streamlined experience.</p>
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       <div class="card-header banner">
-	<h1 class="m-0"><a href="{% url 'scipost:landing_page' 'SciPostPhysAdv' %}">SciPost Physics Advances</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<em><small style="color: red;">New!</small></em></h1>
+	<h1 class="m-0"><a href="{% url 'scipost:landing_page' 'SciPostPhysAdv' %}">SciPost Physics Commons</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<em><small style="color: red;">New!</small></em></h1>
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       <div class="card-body">
-	<p>SciPost Physics Advances is a premium-quality refereed Journal for the general field of Physics.</p>
+	<p>SciPost Physics Commons is a premium-quality refereed Journal for the general field of Physics.</p>
 	<p>All submissions undergo our peer-witnessed refereeing protocol, led by community professionals under the guidance of our Editorial College (Physics).</p>
-	<p>Publications in SciPost Physics Advances meet all Open Access requirements set by your institution and funding agency (even the most exacting), while remaining entirely free of author-facing charges.</p>
-	<p>SciPos Physics Advances is the Genuine Open Access, by-and-for professional scientists publishing venue for all your significant research advances.</p>
+	<p>Publications in SciPost Physics Commons meet all Open Access requirements set by your institution and funding agency (even the most exacting), while remaining entirely free of author-facing charges.</p>
+	<p>SciPos Physics Commons is the Genuine Open Access, by-and-for professional scientists publishing venue for all your significant research advances.</p>
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     </div>
   </div>

scipost/templates/scipost/PlanSciPost.html

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     <p class="ml-2 mr-2">We propose a simple hierarchy:</p>
     <ul class="ml-3 mr-3">
       <li><strong>A family of Journals for each field of science, headed by a field-leading title, and managed by a field-specific Editorial College</strong></li>
-      <li><strong>A central Journal for top-level breakthroughs selected from field-leading titles</strong></li>
+      <li><strong>A central multidisciplinary Journal presenting extended abstracts of top-level breakthroughs, editorially selected from field-leading titles</strong></li>
     </ul>
     <p class="ml-2 mr-2">The general architecture is illustrated as follows:</p>
-    <img style="max-width: 600px;" src="{% static 'scipost/2018_10_SciPost_Journals_plan.png' %}"></img>
+    <p><img style="max-width: 600px;" src="{% static 'scipost/2018_10_SciPost_Journals_plan.png' %}"></img></p>
 
-    <p class="ml-2 mr-2">Within a given field, the set of journal titles is designed to respond to and serve field-specific needs (see the example of our family of <a href="{% url 'journals:journals' %}#physics">Physics Journals</a>). Each Journal must however follow our peer-witnessed refereeing workflow and general Editorial College-based procedures. Moreover, each field is to feature a field-leading title mirroring our pioneering Journal <a href="{% url 'journal:about' 'SciPostPhys' %}">SciPost Physics</a> (and in particular implementing promotion of selected extended abstracts for publication in <a href="{% url 'journals:journals' %}#selections">SciPost Selections</a>).</p>
+    <p class="ml-2 mr-2">Within a given field, the set of journal titles is designed to respond to and serve field-specific needs (see the example of our family of <a href="{% url 'journals:journals' %}#physics">Physics Journals</a>). Each Journal must however follow our open peer-witnessed refereeing workflow and general Editorial College-based procedures. Moreover, each field is to feature a field-leading title mirroring our pioneering Journal <a href="{% url 'journal:about' 'SciPostPhys' %}">SciPost Physics</a> (and in particular implementing promotion of selected extended abstracts for publication in <a href="{% url 'journals:journals' %}#selections">SciPost Selections</a>).</p>
 
     <h3>Current situation and triggers for expansion</h3>
     <p class="ml-2 mr-2 mt-2">
       The Physics side of our operations is by now established, with our <a href="{% url 'journals:journals' %}#physics">Physics Journals</a> published under the auspices of the <a href="{% url 'scipost:about' %}#editorial_college_physics">Editorial College (Physics)</a>. We will continue expanding this side of our operations according to the increase in the number of submissions we receive.</p>
-    <p class="ml-2 mr-2">On the infrastructure side, we have made great strides. Our platform is not just a simple website: we have conceived, designed and implemented a fully-featured system to handle all aspects of the publication business, from manuscript submission all the way to professional metadata curation. Since our systems were implemented from the start in a field-agnostic way, we are now in perfect position to enable other fields to profit from our development work.
+    <p class="ml-2 mr-2">On the infrastructure side, we have made great strides. Our platform is not just a website: we have conceived, designed and implemented a fully-featured system to handle all aspects of the publication business, from manuscript submission all the way to professional metadata curation. Since our systems were implemented from the start in a field-agnostic way, we are now in perfect position to enable other fields to profit from our development work.
     </p>
     <p class="ml-2 mr-2">
       We are ready to launch operations in other fields; for any given field, we require that two simple preconditions (triggers) be met:

submissions/templates/submissions/sub_and_ref_procedure.html

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 </div>
 
+{% if perms.scipost.can_view_pool %}
+<div class="container border border-danger">
+  <span class="text-danger">DRAFT (POOLVIEW ONLY) - <a href="mailto:admin@scipost.org">COMMENTS WELCOME</a></span>
+
+<div class="row">
+    <div class="col-12">
+        <h2>Submission</h2>
+          <p>This is a quick summary. For more details, see the <a href="{% url 'journals:journals_terms_and_conditions' %}">SciPost Journals Terms and Conditions</a>
+            and the <a href="{% url 'submissions:author_guidelines' %}">author guidelines</a>.</p>
+          <h3>To submit an article for publication in a SciPost Journal, authors must:</h3>
+          <ol>
+            <li>Prepare their manuscript following the <a href="{% url 'submissions:author_guidelines' %}">author guidelines</a></li>
+            <li>Make your preprint publicly available on an appropriate preprint server:
+	      <ul>
+		<li>Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science: <a href="http://arxiv.org">arXiv.org</a></li>
+	      </ul>
+	    </li>
+            <li>After appearance on the preprint server, fill the SciPost <a href="{% url 'submissions:submit_manuscript' %}">Submission</a> form, selecting which SciPost Journal to submit to and providing domain and speciality specifications.</li>
+          </ol>
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr>
+<div class="row">
+    <div class="col-12">
+        <h2 id="pwr">Refereeing procedure</h2>
+          <p>All incoming Submissions to SciPost Journals are peer-reviewed using SciPost's <a href="/FAQ#pwr">peer-witnessed refereeing</a> process, implementing the highest standard of refereeing available. The procedure follows this pattern (this is a summary; the official rules are set out in the <a href="{% url 'scipost:EdCol_by-laws' %}">Editorial College by-laws</a> under section <em>Submissions processing</em>):</p>
+          <ol>
+            <li>
+	      <strong>Pre-screening: plagiarism and conflicts of interest</strong>
+	      <br/>The Submission is checked for plagiarism, and appropriate action (immediate rejection; request to authors for modified version) is taken if necessary. A thorough scan is performed to flag potential conflicts of interest of authors with Fellows.
+	    </li>
+	    <li>
+	      <strong>Screening: finding an Editor-in-charge</strong>
+	      <br/>The Submission is internally forwarded to Fellows of the relevant Editorial College, for them to consider becoming Editor-in-charge. For our Commons journals, members of the community can also be approached (in which case they become guest Fellows). If a (guest) Fellow expresses interest in the submission, he/she becomes Editor-in-charge. This screening process should occur on a timescale of 5 working days. Authors are contacted by our editorial administration in case of problems, in particular if extensions to the screening period prove necessary.</li>
+            <li>
+	      <strong>Activation of the Submission page</strong>
+	      <br/>Following successful screening, a Submission Page is activated. The Submission is immediately opened to Contributor Reports, Comments and Author Replies, all of which are vetted by an Editorial Fellow before eventually appearing online.</li>
+            <li>
+	      <strong>Refereeing round</strong>
+	      <br/>The Editor-in-charge starts a refereeing round (whose duration depends on the Journal, see below), inviting specific Contributors to provide an Invited Report.
+              During a refereeing round, registered Contributors to SciPost can volunteer a Contributed Report, and authors can continuously provide Replies to Reports and Comments.
+              The contents of Reports are publicly viewable, but the author of the Report can choose public anonymity (which is then known to Editors only). Authors are informed by email if a Report or a Comment on their paper is vetted through and published online (authors are welcome to respond, but should not feel obliged to do so before the refereeing round is closed).</li>
+            <li>
+	      <strong>Closing of the refereeing round</strong>
+	      <br/>At the end of the refereeing round, submission of Contributed Reports on the Submission Page is deactivated (reports from invited referees can still be considered, at the discretion of the Editor-in-charge). The Editor-in-charge invites the authors to finalize their responses to any submitted Reports and Comments before the Editorial Recommendation is formulated.</li>
+            <li>
+	      <strong>Editorial recommendation</strong>
+	      <br/>Reports, Replies and Comments are then assessed by the Editor-in-charge, who formulates an editorial recommendation.
+              <ol>
+        	<li>If the editorial recommendation is for publication or rejection, it is forwarded to the Editorial College, which takes the binding editorial decision by consultation of the relevant specialty's Editorial Fellows (voting rights are given to at least 9 Fellows). If the recommendation is to publish the paper as Tier I (targeting approximately the top 10% of articles considered), a selection of Editorial Fellows from all specialties are given voting rights and can thus support or object to this promotion.</li>
+        	<li>If the Editorial Recommendation is for a minor or major revision, it is communicated directly to the authors, who must then resubmit. Upon resubmission, the Editor-in-charge can either start a new refereeing round or directly formulate a new editorial recommendation.</li>
+              </ol></li>
+            <li>
+	      <strong>Decision</strong>
+	      <br/>After being taken by the Editorial College, the editorial decision (consisting in either a publication offer, or rejection) is communicated to the Authors.</li>
+            <ol>
+              <li>If the authors accept an eventual publication offer, the manuscript is sent to the production team. The final version is published online in the relevant SciPost Journal. The publication page links back to the original Submission Page and its contents.</li>
+              <li>If the manuscript is rejected or authors withdraw their Submission, the Submission Page is deactivated and removed from public view, unless the authors request it to remain available.</li>
+            </ol>
+          </ol>
+          <p>The duration of refereeing rounds depends on the Journal, but is normally 4 weeks for article-class material and 8 weeks for Lecture Notes-class material.</p>
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+
+</div>
+{% endif %}
+
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         <h2>Submission</h2>