Scholardemia Workspaces
Open publishing commitments
Before you trust a platform with your journal, you should know exactly what happens to your content, your DOIs and your readers, including on the day you leave. These commitments apply to every journal on Scholardemia.
No article processing charges
Scholardemia journals do not charge article processing charges (APCs).
This platform authority is APC-specific and cannot be switched on by a journal. It does not assert separate submission, page, reader, or other charge policies.
Workspace and institution subscriptions price workspace and hosting infrastructure; they are separate from journal APC state.
Your journal is yours: the exit guarantee
If you leave, you take everything: full-text content, PDFs, metadata (as machine-readable exports), your subscriber list, your domain, and your editorial records. We provide the export within 30 days of a request, in open formats, at no charge.
DOIs: every DOI is registered through your journal's own Crossref, DataCite or Zenodo account, so it stays with your journal when you leave and keeps resolving. Scholardemia holds no DOI prefix of its own, so nothing needs transferring.
Because your journal runs on your own domain, every article URL moves with you. Nothing about leaving breaks a citation.
Open-infrastructure principles
We align with the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI): community accountability, no lock-in by design, and open data about the platform itself. Concretely today: open metadata via OAI-PMH on every journal, exports in open formats, and the exit guarantee above.
We publish what we have and haven't yet done. Alignment is a practice, not a badge.
Preservation: where we honestly are
Every journal gets standards-based open metadata (OAI-PMH), which supports harvesting and archival workflows. We keep a complete preservation copy of every published article: its files and its metadata. Journals listed in DOAJ can join JASPER, DOAJ's preservation scheme, and journals with their own CLOCKSS or Portico agreement can create deposit packages from their settings. We name a preservation service here only once it has confirmed a deposit.
Interim commitment: on request we deposit your published PDFs and metadata into your institution's repository, and the exit guarantee ensures your archive is never hostage to us.
Hold us to it
Questions about any of these commitments, or want them in your agreement in writing? Email hello@scholardemia.com. Ready to see the product side? Create a workspace or read the pricing.