1. Copernicus Publications
Innovative open access publishing and interactive public peer review
Dr. Xenia van Edig
Copernicus Publications | 04 December 2014
@copernicus_org

2. Outline What is Copernicus Publications?
Why is our way of OA publishing innovative?
How is it financed?

3. Copernicus Publications
founding of Copernicus (Meetings)
start of Copernicus Publications
start of the first open access journal and of public peer review
36 peer-reviewed open access journals; 50 staff members all set in Göttingen, Germany
Co-founder of OASPA, member of stm and ORCID, partner of OpenAIRE

4. Our services

5. 2 3 1 OA1 – open access to the publications
Innovative Open Access Publishing: Triple OA strategy 1
OA1 – open access to the publications 2
OA2 – open access to the manufacturing process 3
OA3 – open access to the review

6. 1st Stage 2nd Stage Interactive Journal Work Flow Referees
Submission
Access-Review
Technical Corrections
Publication as D-paper
Comments
Final Response
Post-Discussion Editor Decision
Revision
Peer-Review Completion
Final Revised Publication
Referees 9 5
Referee Comments
1st Stage
(Discussion Forum)
Editor 2
Author 1
Discussion Paper 4
Author
Author Comments 6 7
Editor 3 10
Final Revised Paper
2nd Stage
(Journal) 8
Scientific Community
Short Comments 5

7. Financial aspects
Copernicus license model: OA publishing for learned societies
Moderate APCs €550 – 960 net (10 pages)
Institutional agreements

8. Thank you very much for your attention!