Veruscript

{{Short description|Pashto}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Orphan|date=April 2017}}

{{Infobox publisher

| image = Veruscript logo.jpg

| status = Inactive

| country = United Kingdom

| headquarters = London, {{postcode|W|10}}

| distribution = Open access

| publications = journals

| url = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/*/veruscript.com}}

}}

Veruscript was a London-based publisher of open access academic journals from November 2015 to May 2019.{{cite web|last=Matthews |first=David |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/should-academics-be-paid-for-peer-review |title=Should academics be paid for peer review? | THE News |website=Timeshighereducation.com |date= 16 March 2016|accessdate=2016-12-19}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/d43cd586-c396-11e6-9bca-2b93a6856354 |title=Intelligence experts accuse Cambridge forum of Kremlin links

|last=Jones|first=Sam |website=Ft.com |accessdate=2016-12-19|date=2016-12-16}}{{subscription required|date=December 2016}}{{cite web|author1=Lydia Willgress |author2=Luke Heighton |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/16/intelligence-experts-cut-ties-cambridge-spy-seminars-amid-claims/ |title=Cambridge spy seminars hit by whispers of Russian links as three intelligence experts resign |website=Telegraph.co.uk |date=2016-05-16 |accessdate=2016-12-19}}{{cite web|author=Phoebe Gargaro |url=http://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2016/12/17/intelligence-experts-sever-cambridge-seminar-ties-alleged-russian-funding-86008 |title=Intelligence experts SEVER Cambridge seminar ties over alleged Russian funding - University of Cambridge |website=Thetab.com |date= 17 December 2016|accessdate=2016-12-19}}

The founders were husband and wife Gleb Cheblakov and Nazik Ibraimova via their company AGC Partners, funded by his father Andrey Cheglakov.{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/ee2ccde2-c775-11e6-9043-7e34c07b46ef|title=Cambridge espionage experts review funding after Russia link claim|last=Jones|first=Sam|work=ft.com|date=2016-12-21|accessdate=2019-10-30}} In June 2016, Veruscript launched four journals and paid their peer reviewers from article processing charges.

In December 2016, Veruscript was the subject of allegations that it was involved in Russian attempts to influence the UK intelligence community via the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar. While denying the allegations, Veruscript decided to close the Journal of Intelligence and Terrorism Studies, which had been set up with Neil Kent, the convenor of the seminars.{{cite web|url=https://news.veruscript.com/unprecedented-situation-results-in-veruscript-electing-to-close-its-journal-of-intelligence-and-708fc2bb2d5d#.w2sm9n6jc|title=Unprecedented situation results in Veruscript electing to close its Journal of Intelligence and Terrorism Studies with immediate effect in the context of recent wholly unfounded speculation as to possible state-sponsored funding of the Company.|website=Veruscript News|date=2016-12-23|accessdate=2017-01-02}}

Veruscript closed in May 2019 and articles from three journals, Cambridge Journal of Eurasian Studies, Journal of Intelligence and Terrorism Studies, and Veruscript Functional Nanomaterials, were made available via the Portico archiving service.{{cite web|url=https://www.portico.org/news/portico-access-alert-3-oa-titles-from-veruscript/|title=Portico access alert: 3 OA titles from Veruscript|work=Portico|date=2019-09-19|accessdate=2019-10-30}}