What authors want
In scholarly communications, discussions often revolve around institutions, libraries, publishers, and funders. However, many of today's issues are of direct concern to authors and researchers. In...
We believe that publishing should be seamless, transparent, and rewarding for everyone involved—authors, reviewers, editors, institutions, and publishers.
ChronosHub creates a unified experience that strengthens your brand and streamlines every stage of the publishing journey. From submission to post-acceptance processes, we ensure efficiency and ease, allowing authors to focus on what matters most—sharing their research with the world.
Partner with ChronosHub to simplify workflows, enhance engagement, and create a frictionless path to publication.
The Publishing Hub unifies information from the processing modules and pulls in information from your other systems via integrations, including manuscript tracking during peer review, production, and delivery platforms.
By atomizing and using a de-coupled front-end, we give publishers a future-proof solution that allows them to stay ahead of the curve.
Our publisher-branded Journal Guide provides your authors with a complete overview of your journals in a custom setting, with filters and search options guiding them to choose the best journal to submit to – leading to less unsuitable submissions for you to manage.
Article processing charges and other charges, discounts, waivers, agreement eligibility and funder compliance are clearly stated, so there are no hidden costs, and authors know what they’re getting themselves into before they submit.
It’s also a great tool to share with your institutional and consortia customers to help them promote all those agreements that you have spent time negotiating together!
There’s an easy way for authors to submit their article, without the hassle of entering metadata data and affiliation manually. Whatever peer review system you use, we can take care of the submission step for your authors, making the journey quick and requiring minimal admin time. And for your authors, less time spent on admin tasks means more time for research!
Throughout the process, authors have full visibility over any charges that they might face if their article is accepted. Article processing charges and other charges, discounts, waivers, agreement eligibility and funder compliance are all clearly stated, so there are no hidden costs, and authors know what they’re getting themselves into even during submission.
There’s no need to email documents back and forth, authors can sign their publishing license right here, on the ChronosHub platform, at the click of a button. And that goes for any license – whether they publish closed access, or open access. You choose which license should be signed, and we’ll take care of it.
Once the license is signed, we’ll email all co-authors a signed copy, so everyone is in the loop.
Clear communication is key, and we’ll show authors early on what license they are getting, and what this entails, so there’s no confusion. If they’re not happy with it, you can offer them the option to ask for another license, and the requests are managed in our platform by your admin team.
Read and Publish agreements, membership discounts, discounts for editors, waivers for low-income-countries – there’s no need to check articles manually for any of these, our platform does all that for you and is automatically applied.
If payment needs to be taken, we provide the authors with a full breakdown of all charges, like article processing charges, color or page charges, and discounts or waivers – so they have a clear overview of all the charges they’re paying for in one place. There’s a choice to pay by credit card or bank transfer, or even cheque – whatever is easiest for your authors!
Optional add-ons include approvals for institutions, retrospective open access, and the use of stand-alone discount codes.
Data is king, and you’re the king of your data – always accessible and there when you need to look something up. Which invoices have been paid? How many articles have been accepted in my journal? It’s all there, at your fingertips.
And not just for you and your team – but also your customers: authors, institutions, and consortia each have their own dashboard. You don’t need to answer their questions and send them reports, they can do it on our platform themselves, anytime and anywhere.
Because we like to empower everyone in their decision making, whatever the need.
Want to know more on how institutions and consortia can access publishers’ reports?
ChronosHub is one way in which we can remove some of the time and complexity that otherwise burdens the researchers’ already busy lives. We are committed to making routes to publishing more accessible and simpler, promoting discoverability, and opening up opportunities for more voices to be heard within the research ecosystem, and this partnership with ChronosHub is a great step along this journey.
We are regularly evaluating ways to ease the path to publication for our authors and improve their experience with Open Access. With ChronosHub, we can support the different Open Access business models in a flexible way and ensure access to all the data and analyses that authors and their institutions need.
Book a demo today and let us show you the platform in action.
