ARPHA
Full-featured publishing platform and services platform services partners Academic books,
ARPHA is a full-featured open access publishing platform for journals, books and data, with managed hosting services. It is offered as Software as a Service (SaaS) and allows users to build their own publishing solution to manage and host journals, books, conference abstracts, proceedings and institutional documents. The platform is designed to support a wide range of research outputs, including open access journals, books, conference abstracts, proceedings, institutional documents and reports, with any combination available for clients seeking a more holistic solution.
ARPHA provides a range of services, including website design and setup, hosting, the ARPHA Writing Tool (AWT), submission and peer review systems, managing editor's services, copy editing and linguistic editing, production, layout and proofreading, domain-specific semantic markup, publication in HTML, XML and PDF, publication of article updates, data publishing, article collections, conference outputs, indexing and archiving, dissemination of content, communication, promotion and marketing services, article and sub-article usage metrics, web-service integrations, printing and distribution, journal development services, journal performance reports, accounting and payments, advanced design services and ARPHA Preprints. The platform supports various business models, including Diamond open access, mixed model, APC-based income model, differentiated groups model and custom-fit models. ARPHA is offered to learned societies, university presses, independent publishers, conference organisers and institutions.
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