The launch of Seismica: a seismic shift in publishing
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...
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2022-11-01
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| author | Christie Rowe Matthew Agius Jaime Convers Gareth Funning Carmine Galasso Stephen Hicks Tran Huynh Jessica Lange Thomas Lecocq Hannah Mark Ryo Okuwaki Théa Ragon Catherine Rychert Samantha Teplitzky Martijn van den Ende |
| author_facet | Christie Rowe Matthew Agius Jaime Convers Gareth Funning Carmine Galasso Stephen Hicks Tran Huynh Jessica Lange Thomas Lecocq Hannah Mark Ryo Okuwaki Théa Ragon Catherine Rychert Samantha Teplitzky Martijn van den Ende |
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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.
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| spelling | doaj.art-dd5e9f7ec4844adebd4bf1dd833bacb32023-11-16T18:31:14ZengMcGill UniversitySeismica2816-93872022-11-011110.26443/seismica.v1i1.255The launch of Seismica: a seismic shift in publishingChristie Rowe0Matthew Agius1Jaime Convers2Gareth Funning3Carmine Galasso4Stephen Hicks5Tran Huynh6Jessica Lange7Thomas Lecocq8Hannah Mark9Ryo Okuwaki10Théa Ragon11Catherine Rychert12Samantha Teplitzky13Martijn van den Ende14McGill UniversityDipartiment tal-Ġeoxjenza, L-Università ta’ Malta, Msida, MaltaInstituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, BrazilDepartment of Earth &8 Planetary Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, USADepartment of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London, United KingdomDepartment of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London, UKSouthern California Earthquake Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USAMcGill University Library, Montréal, CanadaSeismology and Gravimetry, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, BelgiumDepartment of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachussetts, USAUniversity of Tsukuba, JapanDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, USADepartment of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachussetts, USAUniversity of California Berkeley Library, Berkeley, USAUniversité Côte d’Azur, IRD, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Géoazur, Valbonne, France 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. https://seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view/255 |
| spellingShingle | Christie Rowe Matthew Agius Jaime Convers Gareth Funning Carmine Galasso Stephen Hicks Tran Huynh Jessica Lange Thomas Lecocq Hannah Mark Ryo Okuwaki Théa Ragon Catherine Rychert Samantha Teplitzky Martijn van den Ende The launch of Seismica: a seismic shift in publishing Seismica |
| title | The launch of Seismica: a seismic shift in publishing |
| title_full | The launch of Seismica: a seismic shift in publishing |
| title_fullStr | The launch of Seismica: a seismic shift in publishing |
| title_full_unstemmed | The launch of Seismica: a seismic shift in publishing |
| title_short | The launch of Seismica: a seismic shift in publishing |
| title_sort | launch of seismica a seismic shift in publishing |
| url | https://seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view/255 |
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