Streamline Your
Open Access Management
ChronosHub supports authors to select suitable journals for their manuscript submissions by making funding policies and institutional agreements transparent. Through a collaborative approach, ChronosHub streamlines the workflow for publishers, funders and institutions for effective APC management, funding policy compliance and OA reporting.
Work smarter.
Researchers
You are ready to publish, but you don’t know where In ChronosHub, you can indicate your funding source(s) and see which journals are compliant with the funding policies and your institution’s agreements. You can also submit your manuscript to the majority of the journals directly through ChronosHub to ensure you don’t need to worry about compliance, payments or reporting back to funders and your institution.
Funders
You have a publishing policy, for example as part of Plan S, but don’t know how to ensure your grantees comply with it In ChronosHub, you can see the degree of compliance for each article coming out of your grant funding, with the option to pay APCs only for compliant ones. ChronosHub also enables you to see up-to-date reports on all outputs for each of your grants at any time, without having to ask your grantees for manual input.
Institutions
You need to go to the different publishers’ OA dashboards to figure out what APCs to pay In ChronosHub, you can manage your APCs, compliance checks and OA reporting in one place by automatically getting information from the different publishers upon acceptance. You can also use the ChronosHub API to populate your institutional repository, finance system, ConsortiaManager, etc.
Publishers
You risk publishing articles in a non-compliant way, have institutions that demand an OA dashboard and have long payment delays for your APCs In ChronosHub, you can make it clear to your authors which of your journal titles that are compliant with their funder’s policies and who will pay the APC. ChronosHub also provides your institutions with an OA dashboard and can manage the APC invoicing and collection for you.
Designed to Scale
ChronosHub was developed in close collaboration with the Gates Foundation. While initially built for the Gates Foundation, ChronosHub was designed to scale to the broader research community to simplify implementation of publishing policies for research results and address the authors’ concerns about additional workload.
What Our Members Say
“We are very much looking forward to the results of our pilot project. If successful, it will add a key new service, the management of publishing costs, to our portfolio of consortial services. Keeping all read & publish costs transparent and in check gives our members the peace of mind required for the Open Science transformation.”
– Patrick Peiffer, Head of Digital Library Consortium dep., National Library of Luxembourg (BnL)
“For some reason, all problems go away when I contact Chronos. It’s magic. Thank you for making my life easier.”
– Johannes Lehmann, researcher at Cornell University
“The Chronos team has been very helpful and swift with contacting the publisher and answering all my questions. We really appreciate all the assistance as we attempt to navigate publishing open access!”
– Maureen Thomason, researcher at University of Washington
