Services
ChronosHub modules
Use the end-to-end platform, only some modules, or integrate selected data and capabilities within your own systems.
Journal Finder
The journal finder includes 40,000+ journals and enables authors to indicate their funding source(s) and for each journal, see if it is compliant with the funder’s open access policies. For each journal, the author can also see what the APC will be based on any institutional agreements between the publisher and the author’s organization.
The ChronosHub Journal Finder Beta is a community-driven initiative publicly available. Try it here and provide feedback.
APC & Compliance Management
Upon acceptance of an article, ChronosHub receives the invoice from the publisher, and then automatically checks the article for compliance with the funders’ and institutions’ publishing policies. Once the article is compliant (e.g. includes a DOI, has the correct license, etc.), ChronosHub carries out the payment of the APC and any other publishing fees. To facilitate that, ChronosHub can make use of deposit accounts for institutions, funders, and publishers, and then easily manage payments in different currencies.
OA Reporting & Analytics
As articles get submitted and travel through the process until they are published and start to attract citations, ChronosHub enables its administrators to continuously have access to all the data and analytics, including outputs per grant, org unit, subject area, OA type, etc. over time and including all amounts (APCs, discounts, pages charges, etc.).
Repository Deposit Management
For any published articles, ChronosHub can automatically make deposits into PubMed Central, and institutions can use the ChronosHub API to pull out any information to populate local systems, including their Institutional Repository, to avoid bothering the researchers.
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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