For universities, research centres, academic societies and independent publishers

Launch your academic journal in days, not months.

Name: Scopapers Journal Platform
Brand: Scopapers
Availability: InStock

We set up and run a complete, professional journal for you: peer review, publishing, real DOIs, payments and a polished multilingual website. You focus on the scholarship. We handle the platform, so you never have to wrestle with OJS.

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Already running a journal on OJS? Migrate to Scopapers

Hosted from $99 per month, or a perpetual licence from $7,900.

Everything a journal needs, in one place

Peer review

A clean editorial desk: assign editors, invite reviewers, track decisions and revisions.

Payments, waivers & APCs

Card-first Stripe checkout, PayPal, bank transfer, invoices, receipts, waivers and reviewer compensation.

Permanent DOIs

Real, citable DOIs registered through Zenodo (operated by CERN) at no per-DOI cost, with structured metadata deposited for every article.

Discoverability and SEO

Sitemaps, JSON-LD schema, and Google Scholar and Dublin Core metadata, built so search engines and scholarly crawlers can find and read every article.

Indexing-ready

JATS XML, OAI-PMH and DOAJ-format exports, so your journal meets the technical requirements to apply to DOAJ, indexers and harvesters.

Five languages, including Arabic

English, French, Arabic (full right-to-left), Spanish and Chinese, with each journal in its own language.

On-site manuscript editor

Guided submission, in-browser manuscript editing, DOCX/LaTeX converters, checklists and an AI pre-check.

Per-journal branding

Every journal has its own cover, banner, accent colour, logo, sections and policies, giving it a distinct identity.

Editorial board management

Publish editorial boards, assign roles, manage editors and reviewers per journal from one place.

Reviewer certificates

Reviewers earn downloadable recognition certificates for the reviews they complete.

Conferences & events

Promote calls for papers, conferences and events across the platform and on each journal home.

Open access

CC BY 4.0 by default, COPE-aligned policies, retraction & correction notices, durable preservation.

How to launch your journal

You bring the scholarship; we handle the platform. Here is exactly how a new journal goes from an idea to a live, indexed, citable publication.

1

Tell us about your journal

Share your journal’s title, scope, discipline(s), language and whether you want one journal or several. No technical setup on your side.
2

We set up your journal website

We create your branded journal with its cover, banner, accent colour, sections, editorial policies and language, including full right-to-left Arabic, hosted by us or installed on your own server.
3

Add your editorial board and policies

Invite editors and reviewers, publish your editorial board, and configure your peer-review type, submission checklist, fees, waivers and open-access licence.
4

Open for submissions

Authors submit through a guided form with on-site manuscript editing and an AI pre-check. Editors assign reviewers and track decisions from the editorial desk.
5

Publish with DOIs and indexing

Accepted articles are published in open access with real DOIs (Zenodo), Google Scholar, Crossref and Dublin Core metadata, sitemaps and SEO, ready for indexers and DOAJ.

What you need to start

A journal title and scope, or several for a multi-journal press
An editorial team of editors and reviewers you can invite in one click
Your peer-review model, submission requirements and open-access licence
Optional: a publication fee, waivers, and a Stripe or PayPal account for payments
Optional: an ISSN. We guide you, and we never fabricate ISSNs or DOIs

Start your journal

Already running a journal?

Move your journal from OJS to Scopapers

If OJS has become slow to run and hard to maintain, you do not have to rebuild your journal from scratch. We migrate your existing publication into a modern platform and keep what matters, so your readers, authors and citation links all keep working.

Request a migration assessment

We review your current journal and give you a clear migration plan. No obligation.

What we bring across

Articles and full issues
Authors and user accounts
Metadata and existing DOIs
Journal branding and layout
Sections, policies and settings
Editorial and review history

Plans and pricing

Subscribe monthly, purchase a perpetual licence, or commission a custom build. There are no per-article fees, no per-DOI charges, and no hidden setup costs.

Single Journal

One journal in a single discipline, fully hosted and managed.

$99 /month

Billed monthly. Cancel anytime. billed yearly

✓ Your own branded, multilingual journal website
✓ Peer review, submissions and the editorial desk
✓ Real DOIs with Google Scholar and Crossref metadata
✓ Stripe and PayPal payments, invoices and waivers
✓ Hosting, software updates and backups included

Get started

A modern alternative to OJS / PKP

Open-source journal software is powerful but dated, hard to theme, and slow to set up. Scopapers gives you the same scholarly rigour with a modern experience your authors and reviewers actually enjoy.

Scopapers

Modern, responsive and multilingual, with full right-to-left Arabic out of the box
Guided submission, on-site manuscript editing, and an AI pre-check
Stripe and PayPal payments, invoices and reviewer compensation built in
Real DOIs (Zenodo), Google Scholar and Crossref metadata, sitemaps and SEO
COPE-aligned ethics, retraction notices and open-access CC BY by default
Set up in days rather than months, hosted or self-hosted

Legacy OJS / PKP

Dated interface, with painful theming and plugins
Manual, fragmented submission and review steps
Payments and reviewer rewards need extra plugins or custom work
Indexing and SEO require significant configuration
Weeks of setup and ongoing maintenance overhead

Built to be trusted with scholarly content

Your journal is a permanent scholarly record. We treat it that way, and we never lock you in.

Your content stays yours

You own your articles, data and metadata. We are the platform, not the publisher of record. Nothing about your journal becomes ours.

Export everything, anytime

Full exports in standard formats (JATS XML, OAI-PMH, article files and metadata), so you can move your journal elsewhere whenever you choose. No lock-in.

Real, permanent DOIs

DOIs are registered through Zenodo, operated by CERN, and remain citable and resolvable for the long term, independent of any single provider.

A named team behind it

Scopapers is built and operated by a real team, on a platform that already runs live, indexed, multilingual journals, including this very website.

Frequently asked questions

Tell us your journal’s title, scope and language. We set up your branded, multilingual journal website. You then invite your editorial board, set your policies and fees, open for submissions, and publish accepted articles in open access with real DOIs and the metadata that indexers require. Most journals go live within a few days.

Yes. Migration is a core service, not an afterthought. We bring across your articles and issues, authors and accounts, metadata and existing DOIs, journal branding, sections, policies and your editorial history, so your readers and citation links keep working. Request a migration assessment and we will give you a clear plan for your specific journal.

Yes to both. You own your articles, data and metadata; we are the platform, not the owner of your journal. You can export everything in standard formats (JATS XML, OAI-PMH, article files and metadata) at any time and move elsewhere. There is no lock-in, and your DOIs remain permanent either way.

Scopapers is built and operated by a real, named team and already runs live, indexed, multilingual open-access journals, including this very website. You are not trusting an anonymous script with years of scholarly content.

A journal title and scope, an editorial team of editors and reviewers you can invite, your peer-review model, and an open-access licence. A publication fee with a Stripe or PayPal account is optional. An ISSN is helpful but not required to begin. We guide you through it, and we never fabricate ISSNs or DOIs.

The best system combines scholarly rigour with a modern experience. Scopapers provides guided submission, on-site manuscript editing, an AI pre-check, built-in peer review, payments and reviewer compensation, real DOIs, Google Scholar and Crossref metadata, and multilingual right-to-left Arabic websites out of the box. It is a modern alternative to OJS and PKP, without the dated interface and plugin overhead.

Hosted plans start at $99 per month for a single journal and $299 per month for a multidisciplinary press, billed monthly with no commitment. Pay yearly and save 30 percent. If you prefer to own the software, the perpetual licence starts at $7,900 as a one-time payment. Custom development and migrations are quoted per project. There are no per-DOI charges.

A few days, not months. Hosted journals can be live almost immediately, and self-hosted deployments include setup guidance. Legacy open-source software often requires weeks of configuration and ongoing maintenance by comparison.

Yes. Articles receive real, citable DOIs registered through Zenodo (operated by CERN) at no per-DOI cost, with structured metadata deposited for each one. Every article also carries Google Scholar and Dublin Core metadata so it can be read and cited correctly.

Yes, on the technical side. Scopapers generates the sitemaps, JSON-LD schema, Google Scholar and Dublin Core metadata, and JATS and OAI-PMH exports that discoverability and indexing workflows require. Actual inclusion in Google Scholar, DOAJ or any other database is decided by each service under its own requirements and review process, which no platform can guarantee. We make sure you meet the technical bar and are ready to apply.

Yes. The platform is multi-journal from the ground up. Each journal has its own branding, accent colour, sections, policies, language and editorial board, all managed from one place.

Yes. English, French, Arabic with full right-to-left support, Spanish and Chinese are built in, and each journal can run in its own language.

Stripe card checkout and PayPal are built in, along with manual bank and transfer payments, invoices, receipts, fee waivers and reviewer compensation.

With the perpetual licence you own your copy. Deploy it on your own servers and customise the branding, workflow, languages and policies to your needs. Hosted plans keep updates and infrastructure handled for you.

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