UCL Open: Environment Preprint

Welcome to UCL Open: Environment!

UCL Open: Environment is a new, open and transparent open access journal where high-impact disciplinary and interdisciplinary research is published that showcases radical and critical thinking on real-world issues, with the overall aim of benefitting humanity. 

This is the preprint server of UCL Open: Environment where submittied articles under-go open peer review. You will find all submitted articles and peer review comments in the preprint server article list, here. To read UCL Open: Environment publications (publsihed in the journal after peer review), please see here.

You will find information regarding UCL Open: Environment including its aims and scope, editorial board, how it works and how to submit, at https://ucl.scienceopen.com.

Journal information

ISSN: 2632-0886
Homepage: https://ucl.scienceopen.com

Published by:
UCL Press
University College London (UCL)
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT

UCL Press website: https://www.uclpress.co.uk
UCL Press email: uclpresspublishing@ucl.ac.uk
UCL Press twitter: @uclpress
UCL Press Journals Editorial Policy: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/pages/journals-editorial-policy

Publication frequency: UCL Open: Environment publishes articles on a continuous basis (as and when articles are ready for publication). 

Contact the journal

All general enquiries should be sent to the Editorial office email uclopen.environment [at] ucl.ac.uk

Open-access policy

All preprint and editorially accepted version of record articles published in UCL Open: Environment are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0 international license agreement and published open access, making articles immediately and freely available to read and download. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access. The CC-BY license agreement allows authors to retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of the work. Further information regarding this can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 and the author contributor agreement terms and conditions for publication in UCL Open: Environment can be freely accessed online at http://ucl-about.scienceopen.com/author-contributor-agreement.

Abstracting & Indexing

UCL Press works with subject specific indexers to deposit published articles in relevant repositories and search databases. You will find further information including a list of current indexing arrangements in place for the journal, here.

Peer review

UCL Open: Environment operates a preprint server post-publication open peer review model (the names and affiliations of reviewers are published alongside their review reports). Further detailed information about how this works as well as the journals Editorial policies can be found here.

Article publication charges (APC)

UCL Open: Environment levies an Article-Processing Charge (APC) to all non-UCL authors once the article has been editorially accepted (not for submission). The APC price is set as low as possible to cover the open access publication costs of the article, including typesetting, copyediting, publication, and indexing. Detailed information about the charges made and what these cost can be found here.

How it works

Where traditionally scholarly publication and peer review suffers from a lack of transparency, recognition and accountability, UCL Open: Environment is different. Operating dually as an open access e-journal and offering immediate publication in a dedicated preprint server, with open peer review, the entire publishing process will be accessible, transparent, accountable and fast. Find out more information on how the journal works, here.

Click here to read official publications (articles that have been editorially accepted after peer review) in UCL Open: Environment.

Click here to read current submissions under open peer review on the UCL Open: Environment preprint server.

Special series and calls for papers

UCL Open: Environment plans to publish a number of special or thematic series throughout the year. See all the current UCL Open: Environment calls for papers at https://ucl-about.scienceopen.com/calls-for-papers.

How to submit

Authors should read through these author guidelines and notes about how to prepare a manuscript for submission, as well as the publishing policies, before submitting to the journal. Once you are ready to submit, please ensure that you have signed into MyScienceOpen with your ORCID.

Before submitting to the journal, all authors must have read and agreed to the journal’s editorial policy, found here. By submitting to the journal, you acknowledge agreement to the UCL Press Author Contributor Agreement. All decisions by the editorial team are final.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT TO THE JOURNAL

How it works

Where traditionally scholarly publication and peer review suffers from a lack of transparency, recognition and accountability, UCL Open: Environment is different. Operating dually as an open access e-journal and offering immediate publication in a dedicated preprint server, with open peer review, the entire publishing process will be accessible, transparent, accountable and fast. Find out more information on how the journal works, here.