Hosting Your Journal on Empirical Open

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Services Provided to Partner Journals

• Free metadata and full-text PDF hosting for accepted partner journals.
• A dedicated journal homepage with clear publication and editorial information.
• Global search indexing so readers can discover your articles across disciplines.
• Open-access infrastructure designed to support durable, accessible scholarly communication.

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Criteria for Inclusion

• Publishes peer-reviewed original research.
• Has a registered eISSN or another verifiable journal identifier.
• Maintains an active editorial board with institutional affiliations.
• Publishes clear copyright, licensing, and access policies.

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Application & Submission Process

1. Request the journal application form from the Empirical Open team.
2. Provide representative back-issue PDFs and the journal's current archive information.
3. Submit author guidelines, including formatting, submission, and publication requirements.
4. Detail the journal's peer-review protocols, editorial roles, and decision process.

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Publishing Ethics & Resources

Partner journals should follow transparent, responsible publishing practices. The following references provide useful standards and implementation guidance:

• Creative Commons licensing
• COPE publishing ethics
• Crossref DOI management
• Plagiarism detection best practices