Company:Scipedia
| Type | Limited liability company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet Computer software |
| Founded | 2015[1] |
| Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain |
| Website | www |
Scipedia is an open science portal and academic open access repository that hosts academic papers, journals[2] and congress proceedings. The site offers a solution where the community can work collaboratively on research reports and open discussion forums about them.
Scipedia launched in May 2017 and collaborates in the H2020 project of the "European forum and oBsErvatory for OPEN science in transport",[3] and it complies with the EU guidelines about Open Access.[4]
Publication
The papers can be imported from standard formats (such as .pdf, .docx or Tex/LaTex)[5] or created using Scipedia’s online editor. This online editor allows to work collaboratively and to embed in the text supplementary material such as video, pictures, datasets, models and more. As social network, Scipedia includes different tools to facilitate discussion and feedback, such as discussion forums (associated with all documents published), thematic groups, or internal messaging.
For this purpose, Scipedia offers a platform providing free publishing and open access services to disseminate the results of the scientific and technical work. It also offers the possibility of paid plans for journals with the automatic generation of DOIs, an integrated payment gateway for Article Processing Charges (APCs) or handling administrative aspects of main index providers (including Web of Science or SCOPUS).[6]
The published papers and other public documents are available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license for free and can be distributed and linked in accordance with the provisions of this license. Scipedia must not incorporate materials that violate the rights of their authors or works with licensing scheme incompatible with the Scipedia scheme.
Four different types of publications are available in Scipedia: Journals, Archives, Collections and Proceedings.
- Journal is a peer-reviewed publication that will contain original research articles in the field of the journal or papers aiming to exchange and discus on novel and creative ideas on theoretical and experimental researches (academic journals).
- Archive is a peer-reviewed publication that will publish survey papers with a deliberately integrative and up-to-date perspective on a major topic in the field of the journal.
- Collection can be an institutional or thematic repository of any type of technical and scientific document (such as thesis dissertations, state-of-the-art review papers, historical papers or research reports). Collections give the opportunity to researchers and technologists to freely publish and facilitate open access to their research activities results. Both institutional and thematic repositories can be created in Scipedia as a Collection. The documents published as Collections may not follow the standards defined in Scipedia for papers published in the other journal types.
- Proceedings is a collection of academic or scientific papers or extended abstracts, published in the context of a conference or series of conferences.[5]
Peer review and discussion
The Scipedia system allows for a regular blind peer review (with designated peers) or an open (collaborative) peer-review where registered users can comment on the paper and authors can answer to those questions.[7]
An integral part of Scipedia’s mission is to publish journals of the highest quality with the greatest impact. Application of the peer-review process is a way to ensure the overall quality and integrity of the research presented in a publication. Scipedia’s publications (except those of type ‘Collection’ and ‘Proceedings’) will follow a collaborative peer-review process. Scipedia’s peer review process aims to maintain the publishing standards, improve the quality of the document, and finally to determine the suitability for publication in the selected journal.
Once the peer-review process is finished and the paper is published, a discussion page will remain open as a discussion forum about the paper contents and related issues. The authors of a published paper may optionally add additional supplementary material (such as videos, datasets, computational models, etc.) or decide to make minor changes in order to improve it. In case the authors want to make major changes in a published document, it is preferable to create a new one.
Other projects
Team UP
Scipedia offers publishing and data repository management services (SaaS, Software as a Service) on the platform and the possibility to build customized solutions. Under this brand, Scipedia technology can be licensed to implement customized corporative solutions.[5]
Institutional portals
Institutions can use Scipedia's technology to host their open science portals and microsites that, not only offers the Scipedia technology, but also interface with the institutional CRIS or advertising space.[8]
External links
- Official website
- Scipedia on YouTube
- RIMNI (International Journal of Numerical Methods for Calculation and Design in Engineering) on Scipedia
- 14th World Congress in Computational Mechanics and ECCOMAS Congress on Scipedia
References
- ↑ "InnovaSpain: Julio García Espinosa, cofundador de Scipedia: “Debemos aprovechar el uso que otros hagan de nuestro conocimiento”". https://www.innovaspain.com/julio-garcia-espinosa-cofundador-de-scipedia-la-red-social-de-investigadores/.
- ↑ "Elsevier paralizó una ley clave para proteger su millonario monopolio en España" (in es). 2018-02-21. https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/ciencia/2018-02-21/editoriales-elsevier-open-access-desactiva_1524848/.
- ↑ "European forum and oBsErvatory for OPEN science in transport". https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/824323.
- ↑ "Guidelines to the Rules on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Open Access to Research Data in Horizon 2020". https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/oa_pilot/h2020-hi-oa-pilot-guide_en.pdf.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 (in en) Frequently asked questions (FAQ). https://www.scipedia.com/public/Faqs.
- ↑ "Scipedia's hosting plans for journals" (in en). Scipedia. 2018-07-09. https://www.scipedia.com/public/_2018a.
- ↑ García-Espinosa, Julio (May 2017). "Scipedia.com. Publicación científica gratuita en acceso abierto". 7ª Conferencia internacional sobre revistas de ciencias sociales y humanidades. http://thinkepi.net/notas/crecs_2017/V_10_50_Garcia_Espinosa.pdf.
- ↑ "Scipedia hosting plans for institutional portals" (in en). Scipedia. https://www.scipedia.com/public/Institutional_Portals_Prices.
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