Enhancing Research Qualità through University Press Services

PUBMETConference Zagreb 12September 2025 Enhancing Research Qualitythrough UniversityPressServices: TheJournalsPlatformoftheUniversityofMilan Enhancing Research Quality through UniversityPress Services TheUniversityPress https://milanoup.unimi.it 2008 Birth of the journal platform Riviste Unimi on OJS with two Human and Social Sciences journals Since its inception, main focus of the platform has been to provide digital publishing services to scholarly journals whose members were part of the University of Milan, particularly to the HSS ones… …with no costs for either readers or authors. In 2020,aBooks section was created and it marked the creation of the Milano University Press. In the meantime, the Journals section opened its publications to other universities and research centres, both in Italy and abroad. Enhancing Research Quality through UniversityPress Services Journalnumbers… 25 10 18 20 24 26 29 35 39 42 44 50 54 57 62 67 70 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Journalsgrowth Since its inception, the Journals section of the University Press has seen a steady increase in the number of journals it hosts, spanning multiple disciplines 10 8 17 7 11 7 54 Arts Philosophy Literature Languages Law&Society History Sciences Medicine Enhancing Research Quality through UniversityPress Services …andits challenges 70journals 56active 14ceased/ archives The progressive aggregation of journals already published, or newly established hasresultedinalayeringofpublicationpracticesandOpenScience knowledge across the various editorial boards, depending on when they joined the platform The University Press provides initial training •on the OJS platform •on the DOAJ requirements … but the Open Science panorama has substantially evolved through the years, leading to new tools, actors and best practices Enhancing Research Quality through UniversityPress Services Therole What could betherole ofaDiamondUniversityPress which publishes scholarly journals? Tooffer asustainable rangeofservices andsupport toeditorial boards, ensuring preservation oftheboards editorial freedom dissemination ofOpenScience andDiamondpublishingbest practices andmonitoring oftheir adherence Enhancing Research Quality through UniversityPress Services Preservation ofboardeditorial freedom In a Diamond University Press journal boards have complete editorial freedom No minimal number of articles to be published per year No APC No recommendations on topics or special issues No graphical constraints Through the scientific process:no interferences in the workflow phases Board chosen through transparent ways Freedom to use own service providers Enhancing Research Quality through UniversityPress Services Dissemination ofOSandDOAbestpractices Diamond OpenAccessalso means reclaiming publicownershipofthepublicresearch, financed bypublicresources, disseminated through publicinfrastructures reaching thepublicwhose taxesfunded theresearch, especially researchers,professors,andprofessionals ItalianoLinguaDue Enhancing Research Quality through UniversityPress Services Dissemination ofOSandDOAbestpractices Diamondpublishingbegins withinformationdirected to academics,researchers,PhDs, disseminating OpenScienceprinciples,especially •Research Integrity:Researchshouldadheretocommonly agreedstandardsofhonesty,respect,transparency,and accountability •FutureofScholarly Communication:DiamondOpenAccess offers atransparent,FAIR,publicenvironment forpublication •FAIRdata:how toimplement them andwhy Eight Pillars ofOpenScience Enhancing Research Quality through UniversityPress Services MilanoUniversityPressservices Initial training OpenScience updates Help‐desk Quality Assurance Copyediting Indexing & Dissemination Monitoring Enhancing Research Quality through UniversityPress Services Thankyou all AndreaCollivignarelli Contacts https://riviste.unimi.it rivist[email protected] PaolaGalimberti [email protected] RossellaFiladoro rossella.[email protected] AndreaCollivignarelli andrea.c[email protected] mastodon.uno/@milanoup MilanoUniversityPress