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To return control of publishing to universities and researchers,
providing them with the infrastructure and support to not only
match but to outcompete the legacy publishers.
About Ubiquity Press
Background
Mission
Spun out of University College London in 2012
Researcher-led
50+ years publishing experience
(BioMed Central, PLoS, Elsevier, IoP)
Current staff of 13, office in London
Comprehensive approach: journals,
books, data, software, wetware…
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The Social Contract
of Science
• Validation
• Dissemination
• Further development
Scientific Malpractice
• Data
• Results
• Software
• Hardware, wetware…
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Research integrity
Full anti-plagiarism checking
Provision for open research data and software
archiving with all publications
Rigorous peer review
Editorial guidance and training
Provision for open peer review
COPE membership for all editors
Close links with society’s ethics committee
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For any questions, please contact
brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com
Ubiquity Press website: http://www.ubiquitypress.com
Koh, A. 2012. Open Access Ahoy! An Interview with Ubiquity Press. The Chronicle of
Higher Education. Available: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/ubiquity/43312
More information
Hinweis der Redaktion
This is for Stuart from the Royal Society
All factors of successful data publication
Need to ensure authors motivated
The Ubiquity Network:
Access to a large peer review pool (100,000+)
Content cascading
Editor sourcing
