Origin and objectives – Hipatia Press was born in 2007, with the intellectual aim of creating a non-profit publisher focused on the dissemination of scientific journals and books regarding their quality and not their commercial aims. Acclaimed international publishers have published in English through our works, including authors like Beck, Butler, Chomsky, Freire, Searle or Touraine. In 2011, Hipatia Press released their scientific journals with the aim of disseminating international and interdisciplinary research, based on pretensions of validity, for scientific progress and its contributions to social change. It includes the publication of thirteen open-access scientific journals, with a wide range of disciplinary and multidisciplinary fields in educational and social sciences. Since 2020, Hipatia Press starts working as an association, keeping the same functions and objectives as in its beginning as publisher.
The case of the scientific journals by Hipatia Press Association is also particular because they do not belong to any academic department or library. Hipatia is a publisher with some features that John Willinsky (2006) attributes to the open-access cooperative model. However, at the same time, Hipatia Press Association has some unique features. It is a non-profit association committed to scientific progress, where very diverse specialists and collaborators contribute with their time to the edition, typesetting, correction, tracking of the peer review and other aspects related to the microeconomy of open-access journals in order to accomplish this real utopia. The main decisions are taken, above all, through dialogical and cooperative processes between the association and the directors of their scientific journals.
About the publishing fees – Since the birth of the journals in 2011, Hipatia Press has not charged any author with Article Processing Charges (APCs) for the publication of their manuscripts. All the journals offer open and immediate online access to the published articles (Gold Open Access). This access implies some expenses associated to the process of publication, but also to the necessary services for this publication. Despite the voluntary work done in the journal, these expenses are nor covered. This implies some processing charges of the articles, which, since October 2020, will have to be covered by the authors once the article has been accepted in some of the journals.
Collaborations – Hipatia Press Association works with several projects to improve its quality, as Open Journal System does with the team PKP (Public Knowledge Project).
Summaries and indexes– The journals in Hipatia Press Association are summarized and indexed in the most important databases in the world. At this moment, some of them are indexed in SCOPUS, in ISI Web Knowledge, Dialnet Métricas and/or have the quality seal of scientific journals by FECYT.
Applying the maximum excellence in the ethical standards – The scientific journals in Hipatia Press Association follow the ethical standards presented in COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journals Editors and the International Standards for editors and authors published by the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Member – Hipatia Press association is part of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), which aims to developing and disseminating solutions to advance open access of scientific publications and promote best practice.
License – The published works in the journals of Hipatia Press Association are published under the Creative Commons Attribution license. This Creative Commons license lets you share, copy, distribute, execute and publicly communicate the work, to create derivative works or to make a commercial use of this work, recognizing the credit of the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor. Until October 5, 2013, the scientific journals in Hipatia Press were published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY NC ND). Hipatia Press decided to change the license and use Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), as the Budapest Open Access Initiative recommended considering its commitment with Open Access.
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