Scipedia.com is an innovative platform that offers a comprehensive social-network-based solution to the specific needs of Open Science. Scipedia aims to connect researchers and facilitate them to share knowledge, expertise and the outcome of their work, by providing free publishing and open access services.
As a social network Scipedia.com includes different tools to facilitate discussion and the sharing of knowledge, such as discussion forums (associated with all documents published), thematic groups, or internal messaging.
As a publishing platform, Scipedia.com offers leading-edge tools, including enriched web publishing, collaborative online edition tools, advanced support for documents/data/big-data repositories, etc.
Scipedia meets the requirements of the standard OAI-PMH protocol to ensure that the main aggregators and search engines harvest and index the published content.
Scipedia offers a flexible, scalable and easily customiz-able cloud hosting solution for congress proceedings, based on the most reliable technology. A BASIC hosting plan is offered for free to any scientific congress (subjected to Scipedia’s Terms of Use).
Scipedia's BASIC hosting plan for congresses includes:
Customized congress home page (congress banner, introduction, about info, etc.)
Profiles pages for the attendants (user accounts shared among different congresses)
Unlimited cloud storage space for proceedings
Unique URL for every document (required for hdl.net or DOI)
Publishing in web format (import from Word or LaTeX) or pdf
Discussion forum for every published document
Citations for every published document
Basic statistics (views and score)
‘Share with’ tool for LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook
Free basic support and maintenance services
Additionally, Scipedia offers different paid services, which complete those included in the BASIC plan:
‘Turnkey’ publishing service (creation of congress home page and publishing of proceedings)
DOI assignment to published content
Additional data and video storage space (enable publishing videos, presentations, linked data, etc.)
Management of registration and payment of fees
Advanced customization options
Options for restricting access to content (embargo)
Besides the services for congresses, Scipedia.com offers additional possibilities for series of conferences. It allows creating a profile (i.e. a customized home page for the conference or organizing institution) and build an active community around it, thanks to the different social network tools of the platform. The conference profile will bring together the different proceedings of the series of conferences and will include a statistics page.
The profile of the series of conferences can be configured as a microsite within Scipedia.com. This allows to fully customize the aesthetics of the microsite, following the image of the organizing institution or conference.
Additionally, Scipedia.com can provide the services below for series of conferences:
Customized statistics page and microsite’s features
ISSN request for the conference proceedings
Processing of the inclusion of the conference in Scopus and CDPI (WoS) databases
Contact us for further information about our services for congresses or to request a quote.