Publishing Community and Sustainability
The following organizations, guidelines and projects are essential to our work as a highly respected scholarly journal. We stand together with other nonprofit organizations and initiatives to promote a more sustainable future for nonprofit scholarly publishing. We also guarantee long-term sustainability by ensuring all content is digitally archived for long-term preservation. If you like what we do and have a proposal on how we could collaborate, please get in touch.
Members of
ALPSP – we are members of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), an international trade association which supports and represents not-for-profit organizations that publish scholarly and professional content, and those that work with them.
Crossref – we are members of Crossref, we subscribe to Metadata Plus, and we have a seat on the Crossref Board of Directors
FJN – we are one of the founding members of the Free Journal Network (FJN), a nonprofit organization and coalition of scholar-led, diamond open access journals who follow FairOA principles
ORCID – we are members of Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) and support this nonprofit organization by enabling and highly encouraging all authors and peer reviewers to connect their ORCID iD to articles
OASPA – we are active members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), an international community of open access publishers in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines
SocPC – we are members of the Society Publishers’ Coalition, a group of like-minded charities, community publishers, and non-profit learned societies that publish to advance their missions, reinvesting all financial surpluses back into the communities they serve.
Guided by
CoARA – we are signatories to and members of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) and actively participate in their Germany National Chapter. We fully support their commitment to improve the methods by which research, researchers and research organizations are evaluated.
DORA – we are signatories to the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and fully support their mission to improve the ways in which researchers and scholarly research are evaluated
Compliant with
Publishing with the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology will ensure compliance with all major funding agency publishing mandates including the NIH, NSF, UKRI, ERC, DFG, RCUK, European Commission and Wellcome Trust.
Plan S – our journal is Plan S compliant and meets all technical specifications and policy requirements as outlined by cOAlition S
Archived in
DOAJ – all articles are delivered to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in their requested XML format, including all necessary metadata
Europe PMC – all articles are archived in Europe PMC, an open science platform that enables access to life science publications and preprints
Portico – all articles are archived with Portico, a system developed by the US non-profit organization Ithaka for the long-term archiving of digital objects
PubMed Central – all articles are deposited in PubMed Central (the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature) in JATS XML format and are freely available in their open access subset
Services
iThenticate/Similarity Check – we are Similarity Check members and check all submitted manuscripts for similarity to other published content using the iThenticate text comparison software
Lens – we collaborate with Lens.org, a secure and open infrastructure by the non-profit Cambia social enterprise, in order to provide our readers with the most comprehensive and accurate overview of the impact of individual published articles.
OA Switchboard – to streamline communication with libraries, funders and institutions, we have signed up with the OA Switchboard initiative - an information exchange hub to inform institutions when their researchers publish in our journals.
ROR – we are part of the Research Organization Registry (ROR) community, which aims to connect researchers and research outputs to affiliations. We automatically collect ROR IDs for all articles we publish and embed them in our freely accessible metadata.
