About the Press
- mȏre (the sea)- a great quantity, plenitude, a great number of something, a vast space [a sea of books, a sea of magazines ]
- press - a special service that transfers and distributes information to end users, a place where authors and editors of the content have all the necessary tools to work in a single place
Morepress is a branch of publishing activities of the University of Zadar that is focused on the innovative creation and dissemination of digital scholarly, educational, and professional publications in open access, produced within the University’s departments and research centers. The purpose of Morepress is to enhance the University's publishing activities by using advanced digital technologies intended for the process of creating, creation, editing, and disseminating open-access content, while actively contribute to the representation of Croatian science and culture in the online environment. The aim of Morepress is to develop new or adjust current technological solutions, intended for merging and transfer of large amount of digitized data and born-digital data, within the unified online platform Morepress. From the mentioned general goal stem specific goals:
- to gather currently distributed academic publishing content of the University of Zadar in a unique website (Morepress)
- to create a platform for editing and distribution of scholarly and professional journals and other periodical publications in the OJS (Open Journal System) for the organization of editing processes (Morepress | journals)
- to create a platform for editing and distribution of scholarly and professional monographs (books, textbooks, handbooks, course materials), conference papers and other kinds of miscellanies - Morepress | books
- to create a thematic blog that serves for publishing information about current scientific and academic accomplishments at the University of Zadar - Morepress | blog
- to integrate the full-text search system for all types of publications
- to test standard publishing distribution formats and models
- to develop a digital curation and preservation system for all publications at the University of Zadar
What does Morepress publish?
Authored and edited books are published on the Morepress Books platform, as well as conference proceedings, textbooks, manuals, and other standalone publications .
Serial publications are published on the Morepress Journals platform.
Peer-review process
All scholarly publications of the University of Zadar undergo an independent peer-review process.
For authored books, reviewers are appointed by the Publishing Committee.
For edited volumes, reviewers of individual contributions are appointed by the editorial board, while reviewers of the edited volume as a whole are appointed by the Publishing Committee.
Open access
Books published on Morepress are made available in open access, ensuring users “free, unrestricted, and barrier-free online access to digital scholarly information, allowing reading, storage, distribution, searching, retrieval, indexing, and/or other lawful use,” in accordance with the Croatian Open Science Plan and the Declaration on the Application of Open Science Principles at the University of Zadar.
Copyright and usage rights
All publications on the Morepress Books platform are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-ND). This license permits the use, sharing, and reproduction of the work for non-commercial purposes only, provided that the work and its author are properly cited and the source is acknowledged. The license does not permit the sharing of the work in adapted or modified form.
All authors may deposit the online editions of publications published on Morepress in repositories, share them via social media, and distribute them through other means to ensure greater visibility and impact, provided that a link to the original place of publication on Morepress is always included, preferably via the DOI identifier.
New authored books
For new authored books, authors enter into a publishing agreement with the University of Zadar, whereby they retain the copyright to the work while granting the University of Zadar a non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, and distribute the work in printed and/or electronic form. The author retains the right to further use and publish the work, in whole or in part, with the obligation to indicate that it was first published by the University of Zadar.
In agreement with the author, the publisher decides whether the book will be published exclusively as an online open-access publication, simultaneously as a printed book and an online open-access publication, or as a printed edition with an online edition that will be made available in open access after a specified embargo period. In the case of publishing an electronic edition in open access, the work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-ND).
Previously published printed books
For previously printed books that are subsequently published as an online edition, authors retain full ownership of the copyright, while granting their consent for the University of Zadar to publish the work in digital form in open access under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND license.
Edited volumes and conference proceedings
In edited volumes and conference proceedings, authors of individual papers/chapters remain the exclusive holders of copyright; however, upon submission of their contributions, they sign a statement consenting to the publication of the work in open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-ND).
