Journal Platform & Setup Service

Launch a modern academic journal — without fighting old software.

Name: Scopapers Journal Platform
Brand: Scopapers
Price: 7900 USD
Availability: InStock

Scopapers is a complete, ready-to-run open-access journal platform: peer review, DOIs, payments, multilingual journal sites and a clean editorial workflow. Use our hosted platform, buy the script, or have us build and run it for you.

Talk to us See what you get

Hosted from $199/month, or own your copy from $7,900 one-time — fully customizable.

A serious 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, multilingual (incl. full RTL Arabic) out of the box
— Guided submission, on-site manuscript editing, and an AI pre-check
— Stripe & PayPal payments, invoices and reviewer compensation built in
— Real DOIs (Zenodo), Google Scholar & Crossref metadata, sitemaps, SEO
— COPE-aligned ethics, retraction notices, open-access CC BY by default
— Set up in days, not months — hosted or self-hosted

Legacy OJS / PKP

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

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 (CERN) at no per-DOI cost, with Crossref-style deposits.

Full SEO

Sitemaps, JSON-LD schema, Google Scholar & Dublin Core meta — built so search engines and Scholar index every article.

Indexing-ready

JATS XML, OAI-PMH and DOAJ-format exports so your journal is ready for DOAJ, indexers and harvesters.

5 languages + RTL

English, French, Arabic (full right-to-left), Spanish and Chinese — 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 gets its own cover, banner, accent colour, logo, sections and policies — 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 site

We create your branded journal — cover, banner, accent colour, sections, editorial policies and language (including full RTL Arabic) — hosted or on your own server.
3

Add your editorial board & policies

Invite editors and reviewers, publish your editorial board, and configure 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 & indexing

Accepted articles are published open-access with real DOIs (Zenodo), Google Scholar / Crossref / 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 — editor(s) and reviewers you can invite in a click
Your peer-review model, submission requirements and open-access licence
Optional: a publication fee, waivers, and a Stripe/PayPal account for payments
Optional: an ISSN (we guide you; we never fabricate ISSNs or DOIs)

Start your journal

Three ways to work with us

Hosted platform

from $199 /month

Billed monthly — cancel anytime.

Run your journal on our infrastructure. We handle hosting, updates, DOIs and payments — you focus on editorial work.

Enquire

Frequently asked questions

Tell us your journal’s title, scope and language; we set up your branded, multilingual journal site; you invite your editorial board and set your policies and fees; then you open for submissions and publish accepted articles open-access with real DOIs and full indexing. Most journals go live in days.

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

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

Hosted plans start at $199/month (billed monthly, cancel anytime). The ready-to-use script — a perpetual licence you own and can customize — starts at $7,900 one-time. Custom development and migrations are quoted per project. There is no per-DOI cost.

Days, not months. Hosted journals can be live almost immediately; self-hosted deployments come with setup guidance. Compare that to weeks of configuration and ongoing maintenance with legacy open-source software.

Yes. Articles receive real, citable DOIs registered through Zenodo (operated by CERN) at no per-DOI cost, plus Google Scholar, Crossref-style and Dublin Core metadata so every article is indexed.

Yes. Every article ships with sitemaps, JSON-LD schema, Google Scholar and Dublin Core metadata, and JATS/OAI-PMH exports — so search engines, Google Scholar and indexers can find it, and your journal is ready to apply to DOAJ and other databases.

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

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

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

With the ready-to-use script you own your copy under a perpetual licence: deploy it on your own servers and customize the branding, workflow, languages and policies to your needs. Hosted plans keep updates and infrastructure handled for you.

Yes. Custom development includes migrations from OJS/PKP and other systems — bringing your articles, issues, metadata and DOIs across into a modern, indexed, multilingual site.

Ready to launch your journal?

Tell us about your journal or project and we will get back to you with a clear plan and pricing.

Email us — [email protected]