Bentham Science is taking its Open Access (OA) management to the forefront by becoming the first publisher to fully leverage Chronos Hub. The collaboration serves to improve the authors' experience and guarantee compliance with their funders' and institution's publishing policies, as well as automating the payment and reporting processes.
In line with the push towards OA and Plan S approaching, funders and research institutions are encouraging and mandating researchers to publish their findings in OA journals. This is faced with many challenges for everyone involved. The collaboration between Chronos Hub and Bentham Science serves to address some of the key challenges, both for the authors and their institutions.
The authors can indicate their funding sources and directly see which of Bentham's journals offer a compliant route. The authors also get a clear view of any Article Processing Charges (APCs) or other publishing fees that need to be paid upon acceptance of their article, taking any consortium or institutional agreements into account, including discounts and read & publish agreements. In addition, the authors get a smoother submission into Bentham's journals as much of the information on the authors, grants and funders largely get pre-populated through Chronos Hub. This information will further be reused for automating the reporting and payment processes to offload administrative work for the authors.
For the institutions, they get access to an OA dashboard where they easily can accept or reject payments for each accepted article from authors at their institution. The institutions can even choose to become members on Chronos Hub and get a consolidated access to articles across all publishers. They can also make use of deposit accounts for easy payments in any currency. Furthermore, the institutions can access reports and data to monitor any financial transactions and auto-populate their own systems, like their local institutional repository.
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