Rowe, Christie;
Agius, Matthew;
Convers, Jaime;
Funning, Gareth;
Galasso, Carmine;
Hicks, Stephen;
Huynh, Tran;
... Okuwaki, Ryo; + view all
(2022)
The launch of Seismica: a seismic shift in publishing.
Seismica
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, Article 1. 10.26443/seismica.v1i1.255.
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Abstract
Seismica, a community-run Diamond Open Access (OA) journal for seismology and earthquake science, opened for submissions in July 2022. We created Seismica to support a shift to OA publishing while pushing back against the extreme rise in the cost of OA author processing charges, and the inequities this is compounding. Seismica is run by an all-volunteer Board of 47 researchers who fulfil traditional editorial roles as well as forming functional teams to address the needs for technical design and support, copy editing, media and branding that would otherwise be covered by paid staff at a for-profit journal. We are supported by the McGill University Library (Québec, Canada), who host our website and provide several other services, so that Seismica does not have any income or financial expenditures. We report the process of developing the journal and explain how and why we made some of the major policy choices. We describe the organizational structure of the journal, and discuss future plans and challenges for the continued success and longevity of Seismica.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The launch of Seismica: a seismic shift in publishing |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.26443/seismica.v1i1.255 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v1i1.255 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Earth Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167690 |
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