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How to join the centre Mersenne ?

New journal Membership Request Form (fees will be soon available)

Existing Journal Membership Request Form (fees will be soon available)

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38 058 Grenoble cedex 9

contact-mersenne@listes.mathdoc.fr

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Selection criteria & publication standards

The Centre Mersenne supports publications meeting the two following criterias:

  • peer-reviewed,
  • open access scientific publications.

Types of publications

  • Journals, books or proceedings,
  • Of any scientific discipline
  • Of national of international base
  • Existing: open access journal seeking a solid technical structure or subscription-based journal wishing to move to open access,
  • Newly-created journal

Selection Criteria

Title ownership

  • the journal's title is owned by a not-for-profit entity serving the relevant scientific community.

Independence

  • the journal has a transparent ownership structure and articles are selected on behalf of a competent, scientifically independent editorial board (see recommendations: COPE, EMS ethics Code of practice)

Best practices

Open access dissemination (diamond open access)

  • the journal preferably publishes under Diamond Open Access model (preferred over Gold Open Access), no money is required to publish (no APC) nor to read.

Peer reviewing

  • the journal must be peer-reviewed.

Composition of the editorial board

  • Selection of articles by a competent and scientifically independent editorial board

Transparency

  • Transparency: the publisher must declare the origin of the financial support it receives for the publication.

Identity of the Project

  • Non-profit project and institutional support

Copyright

  • authors assign (not necessarily exclusively) the rights necessary for open access publication, and an open licence is explicitly used. For example, articles can be released under a Creative Commons licence CC-BY, CC-BY-ND... Read more about Creative Commons.
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Fees and Accession

The fees depend on the services you request and are broken down as follows:

Basic Entrance fees to access the Mersenne Center, payable once.

Installation without the support to editorial process service

  • 3 175 €


Installation with the support to editorial process service

  • 1 312 €


Additional installation for the support to editorial process service

  • 1 406 €

Maintenance costs renewed every year.

Basic maintenance: publication

  • 1 066 €


Full maintenance : publication and support to editorial process

  • 1 363 €


Additional maintenance for the support to editorial process service

  • 3 405 €

Typesetting – Simple Layout

  • 7,5€/page

Typesetting – Simple Layout with HTML production

  • 11,62€/page

Typesetting – Complex Layout with HTML production

  • 13,65€/page

Copyediting

  • 7,59€/page

Editorial Secretary

  • Sn quotation

Printing

  • Sn quotation

Invoicing for services may be subject to a partial or total discount, depending on the means available and the level of service requested by the Journal.
We will invite you to contact us for a personalised quote:

contact-mersenne@listes.mathdoc.fr.

Upon acceptation, each Publication becomes a Member.

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Accession process

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The editorial team of the journal meeting the Centre Mersenne publication standard fills in the New Journal Membership Request Form or Existing Journal Membership Request Form – (you can find the fees below. Please contact us for any question) – and signs the General Terms of Use, then an electronic version to the Centre Mersenne along with the General Terms of Use.

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Assessment by Mathdoc of the demand according to the above criteria and publication standards.

3

The Mersenne scientific Committee assesses the relevance of the project. It may consult experts if neccessary.

4

Possibly after several rounds, the Steering Committee makes the final decision.

5

When the proposal is accepted, the Centre Mersenne sends an acceptance letter to the publisher of the journal as well as a contract and a quote to be signed and returned. The Director of the Publication returns the signed General Conditions of Use and the quote to the centre Mersenne.

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Once the signed contract is received by Centre Mersenne, partnership can begin.

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