For publishers

Attract authors and build your brand

ChronosHub is the home of modern, user-friendly publishing workflows. Integrate our platform to your existing systems for a smooth flow of metadata. Save both time and money across the publishing journey.

You don’t need to overhaul everything at once, because ChronosHub’s modules can be used separately or combined in flexible ways. So you can address your most urgent challenges without bloating your tech stack.

Publishing Hub for publishers

Publishing Hub

Evolve your tech stack without disrupting your authors or retraining your teams. Welcome them into a secure, centralized interface where they can manage submissions, payments, licenses, and more.

  • One login across systems with your preferred SSO provider.
  • Branded, customizable front-end.
  • Consistent experience regardless of the underlying systems.

Journal Guide

Help authors choose the right journal the first time, and keep them in your catalogue. Offer a branded, intuitive guide that helps authors explore your journals, check compliance, and understand publishing agreements.

  • Real-time journal search with smart filters.
  • Automatic funder compliance checks.
  • Self-service management of agreements and journal metadata.
Your own branded Journal Guide
Speed up and verify submissions with AI

Submissions

Get cleaner manuscripts into peer review faster, with less manual handling. Automate metadata extraction, author charge display, and funder compliance checks. Then send manuscripts directly to your peer review system.

  • AI-powered metadata extraction and validation.
  • Automatic display of author charges, including discounts and waivers.
  • Seamless integration with peer review systems.

License Management

Turn license signing from a multi-day admin cycle into a same-day process. Modernize your license workflows with instant signing, automated license change requests, and delegation support. Gain full transparency for all parties involved.

  • On-platform signing with zero delays.
  • License delegation and third-party approval.
  • Retrospective open access license support.
Digitize license signing and ditch the PDFs
Free yourself from billing bottlenecks

Author Billing

Apply every agreement, discount, and waiver automatically, without manual review. Run every author charge through the same automated flow. Required charges like APCs and page charges, optional charges like color print and infographics, all priced, approved, and paid end-to-end.

  • Rule-based charge calculation and discounts.
  • Centralized billing for all charge types.
  • Integrated approval and payment workflows.