<p>A fundamental principle underlining all of SciPost’s activities is openness. This means in particular that SciPost guarantees free online access to all publications in all its Journals (free for readers; all articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license (most commonly CC-BY)), and does not charge any article processing fees for publishing (free for authors). All editorial activities are performed by professional academics as part of their normal professional duties: contributors to SciPost are demonstrably dedicated to serving their community, and to realizing the dream of true openness in scientific publishing. SciPost thus achieves the highest possible standards of academic quality and open accessibility while maintaining costs at the lowest achievable level.</p>
<p>A fundamental principle underlining all of SciPost’s activities is openness. This means in particular that SciPost guarantees free online access to all publications in all its Journals (free for readers; all articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license (most commonly CC-BY)), and does not charge any article processing fees for publishing (free for authors). All editorial activities are performed by professional academics as part of their normal professional duties: contributors to SciPost are demonstrably dedicated to serving their community, and to realizing the dream of true openness in scientific publishing. SciPost thus achieves the highest possible standards of academic quality and open accessibility while maintaining costs at the lowest achievable level.</p>
<h3>Financing and sustainability: the role of institutional backers</h3>
<h3>Financing and sustainability: the role of institutional backers</h3>
<p>Besides relying on the dedicated service of professional scientists for many of its day-to-day operations, SciPost must additionally rely on institutional backers for sustaining its professional-level publishing facilities and other activities. This backing is sought primarily from the organizations which are positively impacted by its activities, directly or indirectly: (inter)national funding agencies, universities, national/university/research libraries, academic consortia, governments and ministries, foundations, benefactors and further interested parties. This financial backing cannot take the form of article processing charges or journal subscriptions, due to SciPost’s operating principles: rather, Supporting Partners provide operating funds to SciPost, these funds being pooled in order to cover maintenance and operation of the web infrastructure at SciPost.org, administration of all site-related activities, production of publications in SciPost Journals and development of new publishing-related services for the international scientific community.</p>
<p>Besides relying on the dedicated service of professional scientists for many of its day-to-day operations, SciPost must additionally rely on institutional backers for sustaining its professional-level publishing facilities and other activities. This backing is sought primarily from the organizations which are positively impacted by its activities, directly or indirectly: (inter)national funding agencies, universities, national/university/research libraries, academic consortia, governments and ministries, foundations, benefactors and further interested parties. This financial backing cannot take the form of article processing charges or journal subscriptions, due to SciPost’s operating principles: rather, Supporting Partners provide operating funds to SciPost via donations, these funds being pooled in order to cover maintenance and operation of the web infrastructure at SciPost.org, administration of all site-related activities, production of publications in SciPost Journals and development of new publishing-related services for the international scientific community.</p>
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<h3>Partnership benefits</h3>
<h3>Partnership benefits</h3>
<p>All funds originating from Supporting Partners are used to provide services to the academic community as a whole: SciPost operates in a completely open fashion, and the fulfillment of the Foundation’s mission benefits academics worldwide, without any distinction.</p>
<p>All funds originating from Supporting Partners are used to provide services to the academic community as a whole: SciPost operates in a completely open fashion, and the fulfillment of the Foundation’s mission benefits academics worldwide, without any distinction.</p>
<p>Partnership nonetheless provides Partners with a number of additional benefits as compared to non-Partner parties. SciPost agrees to provide its Partners with:
<p>Despite the fact that all its services are provided openly, SciPost nonetheless provides its Partners with a mark of appreciation and recognition for their donations in the form of:
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<li>A seat on the SciPost Supporting Partners Board, including access to yearly meetings, with voting rights proportional to financial contribution (up to a maximum of 20% of all votes for any individual Partner).</li>
<li>A seat on the SciPost Supporting Partners Board, including access to yearly meetings;</li>
<li>Inclusion in the online listing of Supporting Partners on the SciPost website.</li>
<li>Inclusion in the online listing of Supporting Partners on the SciPost website;</li>
<li>Exclusive ability to feed the Partner’s institutional theses database to the SciPost Theses database, for inclusion in the Theses part of the portal.</li>
<li>Preview of further online tools planned by SciPost during their development stage. The SPB as a whole can provide feedback and request specific features.</li>
<li>Access to the SciPost metadata API (providing among others means to generate yearly metadata summaries relating to SciPost publications for each Contributor employed by the Partner).</li>
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<li>Exclusive access to further online tools planned by SciPost during their development stage. The SPB as a whole can provide feedback and request specific features.</li>
