Open access publisher Hindawi has announced that all Hindawi journals are now included in the Transpose database, which brings together multiple journals’ policies on peer review, co-reviewing, and preprinting, acting as a single source of easy to access policy information for authors and publishers alike, improving transparency.
Transpose is a crowd-sourced initiative aiming to build a database of journal policies; anyone may contribute to the database, but Transpose then seeks verification of the information provided from journals and publishers.
Last week Transpose launched their user interface covering all journals that have been added so far, allowing any user to easily navigate and search for a specific journal’s policies. This will provide potential authors with information regarding the differences between various journals, enabling them to make informed decisions. It will also enable users to conduct wide research on policies in one location, rather than visiting each journal’s website individually.
The initiative’s goal is to ‘foster new practices while increasing awareness among authors, editors, and other stakeholders’ and to ‘provide resources to assist journals in setting, sharing, and clarifying their policies.’
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