NOVA FCSH - School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon is an institution with a vast experience in academic and scientific publishing, mostly research outputs from the R&D Units, financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Its journals and collections have become national and international references in specific areas of knowledge, with some boasting over 20 years of publication, most of them prioritising the Portuguese language.

The growth of the digital media market and the emergence of the international Open Access movement led to an increasing focus on implementing new digital publishing requirements and best practices in scientific publishing.

PRELO - Platform for Journals and Books of NOVA FCSH provides a consistent, integrated, and effective response to meet the needs of scientific journals and collections, considering:

• The strategic importance of the publishing mission carried out by the academic and scientific community, both for the community itself and for society in general;
• The fact that merely making scientific content available online is not sufficient for proper certification, preservation, and dissemination;
• The strong recommendation to use systems designed exclusively for publishing, managing, disseminating, and preserving scientific publications, alongside sharing infrastructures and resources within the academic community, thereby promoting a sustainable, open, and equitable global scientific ecosystem;
• International guidelines and policies for Open Science, particularly for diamond open access scientific publishing, as outlined by UNESCO, Science Europe, COPE, and OPERAS.