FRAMEWORK

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.

 

MISSION AND OBJECTIVES

PRELO is a digital infrastructure with the mission of hosting, managing, archiving, preserving and disseminating scientific publications making them freely available to the global public. This mission is reflected in the following objectives:

1. Empowering editorial imprints with the most appropriate and advanced digital scientific publishing tools;
2. Enhancing openness, efficiency, quality, and sustainability in editorial activities and resources;
3. Aligning publishing activities with international Open Science recommendations and principles of transparency and best practices in scientific publishing;
4. Facilitating interoperability and therefore increasing the visibility, accessibility, and dissemination of scientific publishing within the academic community and society at large;
5. Ensuring the security, preservation, curation, and digital archiving of content and metadata;
6. Promoting reflection and debate on scientific communication, bibliodiversity, and multilingualism in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

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RESPONSIBILITIES, RIGHTS, AND DUTIES

 

NOVA FCSH is responsible for:

• Ensuring the infrastructure management;
• Guaranteeing the maintenance and creation of new OJS and OMP instances;
• Providing technical support.

 

NOVA FCSH reserves the right to:

• Assess the suitability of titles for inclusion of PRELO, based on Best Practices [link para área do website Boas Práticas] and COPE’s Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Scholarly Publishing ;
• Reassess the continued inclusion of a publication in PRELO if it no longer complies with PRELO’s Best Practices [link para área do website Boas Práticas] and COPE’s Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Scholarly Publishing ;
• Decline any responsibility for unlawful acts that may inadvertently arise from a published work.

 

R&D Units and and Editorial Imprints are responsible for:

• Adhering to PRELO’s Best Practices [link para área do website Boas Práticas] and COPE’s Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Scholarly Publishing ;
• Managing the content and editorial processes of their OJS and OMP instances;
• Maintaining the historical archive of the publications;
• Including the NOVA FCSH logo in the publications.

 

R&D Units and and Editorial Imprints reserve the right to:

• Maintain scientific independence and autonomy in publishing model;
• Preserve their graphic identity;
• Request the creation of new OJS and OMP instances;
• Benefit from unlimited hosting of titles and volumes published under their imprint;
• Receive technical support and ongoing maintenance for their assigned OJS and OMP instances;
• Free persistent identifiers (DOI/ISBN) through NOVA/NOVA FCSH subscriptions.

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NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS

PRELO welcomes proposals for the integration of editorial imprints, scientific journals, or collections, whether existing or newly created by R&D Units. These memberships are subject to a one-time fee, which will be used to maintain and update the infrastructure.

To join PRELO - Platform for Journals and Books of NOVA FCSH, or to request any information, please contact us at the following e-mail address: prelo@fcsh.unl.pt