The launch of Seismica:  a seismic shift in publishing

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

doi:10.26443/seismica.v1i1.255

Seismica (Nov 2022)

The launch of Seismica: a seismic shift in publishing

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

Affiliations

Christie Rowe: McGill University
Matthew Agius: Dipartiment tal-Ġeoxjenza, L-Università ta’ Malta, Msida, Malta
Jaime Convers: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gareth Funning: Department of Earth &8 Planetary Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, USA
Carmine Galasso: Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Stephen Hicks: Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
Tran Huynh: Southern California Earthquake Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Jessica Lange: McGill University Library, Montréal, Canada
Thomas Lecocq: Seismology and Gravimetry, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Hannah Mark: Department of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachussetts, USA
Ryo Okuwaki: University of Tsukuba, Japan
Théa Ragon: Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, USA
Catherine Rychert: Department of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachussetts, USA
Samantha Teplitzky: University of California Berkeley Library, Berkeley, USA
Martijn van den Ende: Université Côte d’Azur, IRD, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Géoazur, Valbonne, France

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v1i1.255
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1, no. 1

Abstract

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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.

Published in Seismica

ISSN: 2816-9387 (Online)
Publisher: McGill University
Country of publisher: Canada
LCC subjects: Science: Geology: Dynamic and structural geology
Website: https://seismica.library.mcgill.ca/index

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