Journal partners
Bring your journal to ConductScience.org
Your society keeps the journal's name, editors and decisions, and sets the article fee (APC). ConductScience.org publishes the journal and takes a share of each article fee.
Submissions can open within 30 days of signing
Send us the journal's details
Your society
Use the form on this page. We write the proposal from your answers.
Receive a written proposal within one week
ConductScience.org
It sets out your plan and its numbers and, if you have back issues, a quote to move them.
Sign the agreement
Your society
A short agreement comes with the proposal. An officer of your society signs it.
Set up the journal
Together
We build the journal's pages with your name, logo, colors, scope, policies and fee.
Add your editors
Your society
Editors sign in with a ConductScience account and get a walkthrough of their dashboards.
Open submissions
Authors
Authors submit and peer review starts, within 30 days of signing.
Publish
ConductScience.org
Each article gets a Crossref DOI and its own page, set up for Google Scholar indexing.
Your society runs the journal, and ConductScience.org publishes it
Your society decides
- Name, logo and colors
- Editor-in-Chief, editorial board and decisions
- Scope, policies and review model
- Article fee, including none
- Waivers
ConductScience.org provides
- Publisher of record, holding the publishing rights and DOIs
- The journal's website
- Submission and peer review system, with dashboards for editors
- Preservation in Portico, and ORCID sign-in
- Fee collection, payments to your society and author support
Your society sets the fee, and ConductScience.org takes a share
On Starter, ConductScience.org keeps 20% of each published article's fee, or $99 if that is more. Growth costs $250 a month and lowers those to 10% and $49. Card fees are deducted at cost.
The example starts at 40 articles a year at $600. Move the sliders to your journal's numbers. The figures leave out card fees.
StarterCosts less
$0 a month · 20% of each fee, at least $99
$19,200
a year to your society
- Article fees
- $24,000
- ConductScience.org
- $4,800
Growth
$250 a month · 10% of each fee, at least $49
$18,600
a year to your society
- Article fees
- $24,000
- ConductScience.org
- $5,400
| Plan detail | StarterNo monthly fee | GrowthLower share | PublisherSeveral journals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly fee | $0 | $250 | Custom |
| Share of each article fee | 20% | 10% | 5% |
| Minimum per published article | $99 | $49 | Custom |
| Best for | Smaller journals | Fees over $30,000 a year, or over 60 articles a year at a low or no fee | Several titles or a society press |
| Includes | Every feature listed below | Starter, plus your own web address | Proceedings, several journals and a named contact |
| Data storage | 5 GB per published article included; above that, $5 per GB, paid once | ||
Your written proposal confirms the plan and the numbers for your journal.
What each journal gets
Article pages set up for Google Scholar
Each page carries the citation tags Google Scholar indexes: title, authors, journal, date, DOI and references.
See an articleA Crossref DOI for every article
Each article is registered with Crossref under the prefix 10.55157, which gives it a permanent link for citing.
Open an example DOIORCID for authors
Authors can sign in with ORCID. Their iD appears on the article and in its Crossref record, and Crossref can add the article to their ORCID record.
Peer review, and open peer review
Editors run the journal's peer review as they do now. Authors can also post their paper for open peer review: public comments from other researchers, separate from the editors' decision.
How open peer review worksData with its own DOI
Authors can deposit the data behind an article as a record with its own DOI.
See a data recordHelp for authors
An AI assistant answers authors' questions about submitting, review and fees. Its button is at the bottom right of this page. Authors and editors can also email research@conductscience.org.
Questions
Who holds the publishing rights and DOIs?
ConductScience.org is the publisher of record. It holds the publishing rights and registers each article's DOI with Crossref. Published articles are also deposited with Portico, the archive libraries use to keep articles available if a publisher stops publishing.
Who collects article fees?
ConductScience.org asks authors to pay after their article is accepted. It keeps its share and pays the rest to your society.
Can authors publish for free?
Yes. Your society can run the journal as diamond open access, with no fee, or waive the fee for any author. For each article published free, your society pays the plan's minimum: $99 on Starter, $49 on Growth. Turn on Free to authors in the calculator to see the cost.
Will the journal be in MEDLINE?
The National Library of Medicine decides which journals MEDLINE includes, and when. We help your journal meet its requirements and apply. If the journal is already in MEDLINE, say so in the form, and the proposal covers the move.
How much data can authors store?
Each published article includes 5 GB of data storage. Above that, storage costs $5 per GB, paid once.
Can we move our back issues?
Yes. Your current publisher sends us the files, and the DOIs move to ConductScience.org through a Crossref title transfer. We quote the move once we see what you have.
Can the journal have its own web address?
On Starter, the journal is at conductscience.org/journals/your-journal. The Growth plan adds your own web address, such as journal.yoursociety.org.
Send us the journal's details
We write your proposal from these answers and send it within one week. Only the first four are required.