Publisher branding
Your own publishing platform on ScienceOpen comes with a branded URL and website with lots of space for customization. See, for example, the recently launched UCL Open megajournal platform. The underlying ScienceOpen infrastructure includes user profiles via ORCID, with interactive features such as share, recommend, comment, and review functionalities, lay summaries and community curation. Transparent article-, journal- and publisher-level metrics, including views, citations and altmetrics, can be used to sort search results to help your best content get the most attention, both within your own sub-domain and beyond in the full ScienceOpen discovery environment.
Open review and versioning
Journals publishing on the ScienceOpen platform can choose between blinded review and an open, transparent process. An intuitive manuscript submission and peer review dashboard help editors to track and manage the review process both before and after publication. A full set of notifications – branded with the publisher’s logo – support editors for faster turn-around times.
Beyond the first round of decision-making, the ScienceOpen platform offers a built-in infrastructure for open, post-publication peer review that has been used and improved since 2014. Broadly applicable questions refined with the help of over 100 editors, peer review experts, researchers and publishers form the basis for an article review. Users comment and review with their full identity and ORCID and a review requires a certain level of expertise, as measured by 5 peer-reviewed articles attached to the reviewer’s profile. All review reports receive a citable Crossref DOI. Authors may reply to reviews via the comment function, creating a transparent discussion platform. Reviews/comments are attached to a particular version of an article and the full history of a publication is visible. Reporting tools can provide both a view based on aggregated metrics for multiple versions, as well as individual metrics for each version.
Publishers can choose between innovative workflows that include posting pre-print content or more traditional publishing paths that publish the final peer-reviewed version in XML and PDF.
Content in context
Every scholar painstakingly places their argumentation in the context of the research that has come before. Publishing on ScienceOpen, you can recognize that effort with linked references within our discovery environment and place your journal in the context of the excellent research cited by your authors. Your content will be recommended on all relevant content within over 60 million articles on the ScienceOpen – both at the article and journal level, for increased visibility and dissemination.
Furthermore, researchers on ScienceOpen are encouraged to create collections of literature around their research topics to build communities and foster communication. Publishers can benefit from this community curation with increased visibility and activity. This feature is particularly useful for very broad scope journals just starting out.