Frequently asked questions

DiscoverJ is a scholarly publishing platform that lets societies, presses and institutions run journals end to end: author submission, peer review, production and publishing in a single system with one shared record for every article.

DiscoverJ is for organisations that publish scholarly journals, including learned societies, university presses, institutions and independent publishers, and for the editors, reviewers, authors and production staff who work in them.

No. DiscoverJ is being built in phases and is not yet available. You can join the waitlist to hear first when access opens, and to help shape what is built.

There is no public launch date yet. The editorial core, submission and peer review, comes first, followed by production and publishing. Waitlist members are told as each stage opens.

Yes. Every module works on its own. A journal can adopt only submission, only peer review, only production or only publishing, and move to the full suite later without re-entering data.

DiscoverJ is designed to support single-blind, double-blind, open and transparent peer review. Blinding is enforced by the system, so reviewers and authors see only what the chosen model allows.

No. Production in DiscoverJ is software only: a task board, XML tooling and ePub, PDF and HTML output. Your own staff, or vendors you hire and invite, do the work inside it.

DiscoverJ is built around JATS XML, ORCID, ROR, CRediT contributor roles, Crossref DOIs, OAI-PMH and COUNTER 5 usage reporting, plus schema.org and Google Scholar metadata for discovery.

AI in DiscoverJ is assistive only. It can suggest reviewers, help screen submissions or draft a decision letter, but a person always reviews and confirms the result before it takes effect.

Yes. Most publishers deposit with their own Crossref membership, and DiscoverJ supports that. Deposits can be automatic once a journal enables them.

You do. Your manuscripts, reviews, articles and metadata remain yours, and you can export all of them at any time.

Yes. Journals can store files in their own S3-compatible bucket, and you can run your own website from DiscoverJ content through the content API.

Service continues until an administrator ends it, after which you have a three-month window to export everything. Nothing is deleted until an authorised administrator explicitly approves it.

That is the plan. Importers for users, published articles, files, DOIs and redirects are part of the roadmap, so that readers and search engines keep finding your content at the same addresses.

Pricing is not published yet. It will be based on the modules a journal uses and priced per journal, with discounts for publishers running several journals. Waitlist members hear about pricing before anyone else.

We store your name, email address and organisation, and email you about access and major progress. We do not sell or share your details, and you can ask us to remove them at any time.