Copernicus Publications (also: Copernicus GmbH) is a
publisher
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of scientific literature based in Göttingen, Germany.
Founded in 1994, Copernicus Publications currently publishes 28
peer-reviewed open access scientific journals and other publications on behalf of the
European Geosciences Union
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is a non-profit international union in the fields of Earth, planetary, and space sciences whose vision is to "realise a sustainable and just future for humanity and for the planet." The organisation has hea ...
.
Copernicus Publications is part of the open-access publishing movement. Initially, the
CC-BY-NC
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was used. In 2007, they switched to the
CC-BY attribution license.
Copernicus Publications has been described as the largest open access publisher in the Geo- and Earth system sciences, and it is known as one of the first publishers to embrace
public peer review
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# Open identities: Authors and reviewers are aware of each other's ident ...
.
In 2014, one of their journals was terminated under allegations of
nepotistic reviewing and malpractice; see ''
Pattern Recognition in Physics#History'' for details.
See also
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:Copernicus Publications academic journals
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Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, of which Copernicus Publications is a founding member
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Open access in Germany
Open access to scholarly communication in Germany has evolved rapidly since the early 2000s. Publishers Beilstein-Institut, Copernicus Publications, De Gruyter, Knowledge Unlatched, Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information, ScienceOpen, ...
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Academic publishing companies
Publishing companies established in 1994
Open access publishers
1994 establishments in Germany
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