Interactive Open-Access Publishing 1

Growth in our journals 2001–2018

7,000 D-papers per year Journal papers per year 6,000

5,000

4,000

3,000 2,000 Interactive 1,000

0 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 open-access

publishing The success story 2001–2019 (31 Mar 2019) → 42 journals, 27 indexed in Web of Science → 21/42 with Interactive Public Peer Review™ → 33,570 discussion papers → 55,364 journal papers with 685,899 pages → 159,019 comments in 33,570 discussions

Referees

Referee Author 1 2 comments Editor 4

3 6 Discussion Author 7 st Author 9 1 paper comments Editor stage (discussion Short 8 comments 10 forum ) 2nd stage 5 (journal Scientific ) community Final revised paper

Interactive open-access publishing 1. Open access to the review In 2001, Copernicus Publications started its journey Our unique Interactive Public Peer Review™ enables towards open science by posting the first discussion pa- everyone to access the manuscript, to read reviewer per for public peer review and interactive discussion. reports, and to be active by commenting on the man- Since then, 18 journals have followed the idea of trans- uscript prior to publication. This fosters and provides parency in scientific quality assurance; 20 more journals a lasting record of scientific discussion and maximizes are also open-access but not interactive. Our strategy the effectiveness and transparency of the peer-review is threefold and goes further than for others: process – a consequent application of the open-access principle.

Referees 1. Submission 2. Access review 5 3. Technical corrections 4. Manuscript posted in discussion forum 5. Public discussion Referee 6. Final response comments 7. Post-discussion editor decision 1 2 4 6 7 9 8. Revision Editor Editor 9. Peer-review completion Author Author 10. Final revised publication 8 3 Author 10 Journal variations comments Discussion ▪ Referee quick reports prior to paper D-publication Short comments ▪ Author’s revision after discus- st nd sion 1 stage 2 stage ▪ No editor decision before (discussion (journal) Final peer-review completion forum) 5 revised paper Scientific community

2. Open access to the paper 3. Open access to the assets We were the second publisher worldwide to provide We see the outcome of scientific work as a publication free access to journal papers financed through moder- cluster. The journal paper is the trunk and corresponding ate article processing charges (APC). Thereby, we have data sets, model code, videos, and other assets are the agreements with research organizations, universities, branches. All objects are preserved long term and linked and funders about central settlement. Authors lacking to each other through DOIs. The usage of the output is support of funds can apply for waivers. visualized through article-level metrics (ALM).

Experience how the seed of science grows by being open.