| No Page Limits | There are no page limits for a manuscript, although, in general, contributions should be short but self-contained, concentrating on new results or techniques. |
Full Peer-Review | Rigorous peer-review of all manuscripts by at least two independent competent colleagues prior to publication. |
| Typesetting of all Articles | Typesetting, editing and formatting of all articles in two-column journal style with pdf/LaTeX to keep production costs to a minimum: open access software, minimum author-publisher interface problems, editing of text and equations in parallel, easy internal linking and reference listing, straight forward transformation into pdf, conversion software tex2html and word2tex as well as free LaTeX Macros and WORD Templates available, and automatic server-aided editing and formatting online. |
Copy-editing | Where necessary, articles are copy-edited before publication. |
| Immediate Publication | Immediate upload of all articles onto the internet and generation of reference files for the universal online linking and indexing services. |
| Immediate Online Open Access | All articles are accessible online free of charge (open access) and become part of the Copernicus Publications Online Library. |
| Universal Online Linkage | All articles obtain an individual but universal online address, which is self-explanatory, analog to the classical citation and independent from the publisher. |
| Universal Indexing | References are "actively" transmitted and included into all major reference catalogues, incl. Current Contents and Science Citation Index. |
| Print-on-Demand Technology | All articles are printed digitally to reduce printing costs, to optimize the printing quality, to print colour illustrations free of extra charges for authors and to make back issues available at any time. |
| Full Article Alert Service | Colleagues are "actively" alerted online and free of charge about any new publication with the possibility to study full articles immediately online. |
| Liberal Copyright | All articles may be freely reproduced for non-commercial scientific purposes, while the moral right of the author(s) to be identified as the author(s) of such articles is asserted. All articles are published under a Creative Commons License (allows electronic and paper copies). |
| Availability & Safety | All articles are available continuously online through several mirror-server - clusters with automatic backup facilities (tape and DVD) and on paper via several copyright libraries distributed worldwide. |
| Service Charges | For the above services authors are expected to pay "service charges" depending on the actual amount of time and effort spent on the publication and maintenance of their articles. A detailed strategy for preparing manuscripts plus server-aided assistance is provided by the publisher to minimize service charges. |
| Subscription | Subscription to the online journal is free of charge for individuals, libraries and organizations. Subscription to the printed issues covers the costs for their actual production, handling and mailing. |
