SciPost
{{short description|Nonprofit open-access publisher}}
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| founder = Jean-Sébastien Caux
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| headquarters = Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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SciPost is a non-profit foundation dedicated to developing, implementing and maintaining innovative forms of electronic scientific communication and publishing. It is notable for operating the scipost.org open-access scientific publishing portal.
The SciPost Foundation
The foundation is headquartered in Amsterdam and registered under Dutch Chamber of Commerce.{{cite news |last1=Oosterbaan |first1=Warna |title=Gratis toegang tot wetenschap: het wordt steeds duurder |url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/04/29/gratis-toegang-tot-wetenschap-het-wordt-steeds-duurder-a4118950 |access-date=30 April 2022 |work=NRC |date=29 April 2022 |language=nl}} It was established in 2016.{{cite web |title=SciPost charter |url=https://scipost.org/static/scipost/info/afschrift_OPR_St_SciPost.pdf}} Its chairman is Jean-Sébastien Caux, with Joost van Mameren acting as secretary, and Jasper van Wezel as treasurer.
Open Access publishing activities
SciPost published the 2000th article in 2023, an article in SciPost Physics. The authors included Giorgio Parisi, a Nobel Prize winner.{{cite web |title=Celebrating the 2000th publication |url=https://scipost.org/news/newsitem/124/ |website=scipost.org |access-date=2 August 2023}}
= Journals =
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| Title
! ISSN ! Launched ! Impact factor |
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| SciPost Chemistry
| 2772-6762 | 2021 | |
| SciPost Physics
| 4.6 (2023){{cn|date=October 2024}} |
| SciPost Physics Core
| 2019 | 2.6 (2023){{cn|date=October 2024}} |
| SciPost Physics Lecture Notes
| 2018 | - |
| SciPost Physics Proceedings
| 2019 | - |
Authors are encouraged to make use of preprint servers (for physics, the arXiv e-print archive) but can also submit directly. The recommendation of using preprints leads to SciPost often being thought of as an overlay journals system.{{Cite web|url=https://101innovations.wordpress.com/2018/10/22/eight-routes-towards-plan-s-compliance/|title=Eight routes towards Plan S compliance|date=October 22, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://101innovations.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/plan-s-feedback/|title=Plan S feedback|date=February 8, 2019}} This is incorrect since the platform self-hosts all its publishing workflows and results.
Refereeing at SciPost uses an open procedure known as peer-witnessed refereeing. Submitted manuscripts must be picked up for editorial processing by one of the Fellows of an Editorial College. Besides invited referees, registered contributors can also volunteer reports. The contents of the reports are made publicly visible (the referee can choose to remain anonymous or not). Publication decisions are taken by the Editorial College by majority voting.
Publications carry a Creative Commons license. Metadata is deposited at Crossref and at the DOAJ{{Cite web|url=https://doaj.org/|title=Directory of Open Access Journals|website=doaj.org}} (all journals carry to DOAJ Seal). As a participant in the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), SciPost makes all its citation data open.
Business model
SciPost is funded through a consortial business model whereby universities and research funding agencies worldwide contribute to pooled resources used to run operations. No article processing charges are levied. Sponsors and further benefitting organizations are publicly listed with tallies of linked publications. This data is used to suggest sponsorship levels for sustainability.
The SciPost model resembles the one used by the Open Library of Humanities and is similarly mentioned in discussions on the reform of publishing business models.{{Cite web|url=https://digitalscholarshipleiden.nl/articles/tougher-than-physics-scipost-sets-the-stage-for-open-access|title=Tougher than physics: SciPost sets the stage for Open Access|website=digitalscholarshipleiden.nl|date=11 February 2019 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.openaire.eu/beyond-apcs-alternative-open-access-publishing-business-models|title=BEYOND APCS: ALTERNATIVE OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING BUSINESS MODELS|website=OpenAIRE|date=4 March 2023 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.slideshare.net/claudioattaccalite/green-open-access-journals-and-scipost|title=Green Open Access Journals and SciPost|date=August 31, 2017}}{{Cite journal|title=Open Access eXchange (OAeX): an economic model and platform for fundraising open scholarship services|first1=Jack|last1=Hyland|first2=Alexander|last2=Kouker|first3=Dmitri|last3=Zaitsev|date=February 26, 2020|journal=Insights|volume=33|issue=1|pages=8|doi=10.1629/uksg.500|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|title=Discipline-specific open access publishing practices and barriers to change: an evidence-based review|first1=Anna|last1=Severin|first2=Matthias|last2=Egger|first3=Martin Paul|last3=Eve|first4=Daniel|last4=Hürlimann|date=March 26, 2020|journal=F1000Research|volume=7|pages=1925| pmid=32399178|doi=10.12688/f1000research.17328.2 |pmc=7194335|doi-access=free}}{{Cite web|url=https://oa2020.org/mission/|title=OA2020 Expression of Interest}}{{Cite web|url=https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/02/26/guest-post-an-open-agenda-european-funder-approaches-to-open-science/|title=Guest Post — An Open Agenda: European Funder Approaches to Open Science|date=February 26, 2020|website=The Scholarly Kitchen}}
Organizations which have sponsored SciPost in its early stage include the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research),{{Cite web|url=https://www.nwo.nl/en/common/policies/open-science/answers-and-questions|title=FAQ|website=www.nwo.nl}}{{cite web |title=Open Science grant for SciPost - IoP |url=https://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2021/10/open-science-grant-for-scipost.html |website=Institute of Physics - University of Amsterdam |access-date=30 June 2022 |language=en |date=27 October 2021}} the University of Melbourne, the Max Planck Society / Max Planck Digital Library,{{Cite web|url=https://www.mpdl.mpg.de/en/about-us/news/news-archive/464-max-planck-supports-scipost.html|title=Max Planck supports SciPost |website=www.mpdl.mpg.de}} the University of Amsterdam, CERN,{{cite web |title=Update on Open Access for the CERN community |url=https://home.cern/news/announcement/cern/update-open-access-cern-community |website=CERN |access-date=21 July 2023 |language=en |date=28 June 2023}} the EPFL,{{Cite web|url=https://actu.epfl.ch/news/open-access-publishing-new-partnerships/|title=Open Access publishing: new partnerships|date=January 25, 2018|via=actu.epfl.ch |last1=Library |first1=Epfl }} TU Dortmund,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ub.tu-dortmund.de/ubblog/tu-dortmund-mitglied-bei-scipost|title=UB-Blog » Blog Archive » TU Dortmund Mitglied bei SciPost}} VSNU,{{Cite web|url=https://www.vsnu.nl/Roadmap-open-access-2018-2020-English/publication-platforms-putting-researchers-in-control.html|title=Publication platforms: Putting researchers in control|website=www.vsnu.nl}} OpenAIRE, the University of Lorraine, University of Bern,{{Cite web|url=https://www.unibe.ch/university/services/university_library/services/open_science/open_access/oa_vt/evaluation_publication_charges_funding/index_eng.html|title=Evaluating OA Journals, Publication Charges and Funding|date=July 11, 2019|website=Portal}} the University of Queensland, Technical University Munich,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ub.tum.de/en/news/scipost|title=TUM new partner at SciPost | TUM University Library|website=www.ub.tum.de}} Forschungszentrum Jülich, Johannes Kepler University Linz,{{Cite web|url=https://www.jku.at/en/library/service/bibliometrics-and-publication-support/open-access-publishing/verlagsabkommen/scipost/|title=SciPost Physics / OA.|website=www.jku.at}} Delft University of Technology, Stockholm University,{{Cite web|url=https://www.su.se/english/library/publish/publish-open-access/scipost-1.399220|title=SciPost - Library}} VU Amsterdam, Heidelberg University, Leiden University,{{cite web |last1=De Jong |first1=Rutger |title=Tougher than physics: SciPost sets the stage for Open Access |url=https://digitalscholarshipleiden.nl/articles/tougher-than-physics-scipost-sets-the-stage-for-open-access |website=www.digitalscholarshipleiden.nl |date=11 February 2019 |language=en}} an Austrian national consortium led by the FWF{{Cite web|url=https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news-and-media-relations/news/detail/nid/20181212-2344/|title=Detail|website=www.fwf.ac.at}} Austrian Science Fund.
Community feedback
In the context of Plan S, Robert-Jan Smits singled out SciPost and suggested classifying it as a "Rhodium" publisher.{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/298613050|title=Plan S explained by Robert-Jan Smits|date=November 2, 2018|via=Vimeo}} In a Nature editorial on the evolution of journals into "information platforms", SciPost was qualified as "most impressive".{{Cite journal|title=Rise of the platforms|journal=Nature Physics|year=2019 |volume=15 |issue=9 |page=871 |doi=10.1038/s41567-019-0667-5 |bibcode=2019NatPh..15..871. |s2cid=242906887 |doi-access=free }}
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