Completed
Platform
Volcanica
Growing an innovative community open access testbed in the Earth Sciences
Volcanica is a successful grassroots publishing project, facilitating Diamond Open Access in volcanology. This project will consolidate the Volcanica brand while ensuring operational sustainability, driving innovation, and using its demonstrable success as a springboard for developing a portfolio of disciplinary DOA journals.
Project in brief
Leading establishment
Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg
Partner(s)
Volcanica Editorial Committee
Fondation des Presses Universitaire de Strasbourg
Funding recipient(s)
Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg
Project duration
16 mois
Funding
45 000,00 €
Components of the projet
- Ensure the journal’s long-term viability by spreading the workload.
- Use Volcanica to test and roll out cutting-edge innovations in open access publishing.
- Develop resources to enable the Volcanica model to be adopted by other disciplines.
Major resuts
- Partnership with the Strasbourg University Press (PUS).
- Collaboration with innovative publishing projects
- Stencila and Optimeta.
