What We Do

Brieflands supports the complete publication lifecycle, from a journal's first issue to the long-term preservation of its archive.

Looking for somewhere to publish? Start with the Brieflands Journal Finder, then read the instructions for authors, the manuscript publication workflow, and how to submit a new manuscript.

Mission and Aims

Our mission is to support the ethical, reliable, transparent, and accessible communication of scientific research. We help journals become credible and sustainable publication platforms through professional editorial management, robust technology, responsible peer review, and compliance with recognized publishing standards.

Seven aims guide that work:

1. Uphold research integrity — accuracy, accountability, transparency, and ethical conduct throughout research and publication.
2. Protect editorial independence — decisions based on scholarly merit, relevance, methodological quality, and ethical compliance.
3. Strengthen peer review — fair, timely, constructive, and transparent evaluation of every manuscript.
4. Expand access to knowledge — research that reaches researchers, practitioners, students, policymakers, and readers worldwide.
5. Support global collaboration — connecting authors, reviewers, editors, universities, societies, and institutions across disciplines and countries.
6. Improve journal visibility — through structured metadata, indexing support, persistent identifiers, digital preservation, and high-quality online publishing.
7. Contribute to evidence-based practice — publishing research that can inform science, healthcare, education, technology, and public policy.

Research Integrity and Publishing Principles

Our editorial and publishing activities are governed by the publicly available Brieflands publishing policies and our rules and policies for responsible scholarly publishing. Together these cover authorship, contributorship, conflicts of interest, ethical approval, informed consent, peer review, plagiarism, research misconduct, corrections, retractions, appeals, complaints, artificial intelligence, data handling, advertising, privacy, and publication fees.

We develop these policies with reference to the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). For detail, see the publication ethics knowledge base and our COPE Toolkit implementation page. Our memberships, registrations, and service partnerships are listed on the Memberships and Partners page.

Peer Review and Editorial Transparency

Peer review sits at the centre of how Brieflands journals work. Each manuscript is evaluated according to the policies and editorial procedures of the journal it was submitted to.

Our Peer Review Policy and Process describes reviewer selection, manuscript assessment, editorial decisions, confidentiality, and the review models available.

We also introduced an Open Peer Review framework to make editorial decision-making more accountable. Where every required participant agrees, review reports and editorial correspondence can be published alongside the article — you can read published Open Peer Review reports from our journals.

Open Access, Copyright, and Fees

Brieflands supports immediate open access to published research, so readers anywhere can find, read, and reuse it under the applicable publication license. Copyright ownership, author rights, reuse, licensing, and repository posting are all set out in the Open Access Statement and Copyright Policy.

Academic Journal Publishing Services

We provide professional journal publishing services to universities, research centres, academic societies, journal owners, and editorial boards. The exact scope depends on each journal's needs and contractual arrangements.

For publication misconduct, editorial investigations, authorship concerns, peer-review disputes, corrections, and retractions, we offer dedicated publication ethics consulting services.

NeoScriber Journal Management System

Brieflands builds and operates NeoScriber, our own journal management system. It handles manuscript submission, user management, editorial workflows, peer review, production, online publication, communication, reporting, and post-publication services.

Authors submit through the dedicated portal of the journal they have chosen. Two guides cover the process end to end:

• Online manuscript submission guide — creating or accessing an account, submitting your work, following editorial progress, and receiving notifications.
• Manuscript management guide — revisions, decisions, accepted articles, and publication status for submissions already in progress.

International Academic Collaboration

We collaborate with universities, research institutions, professional associations, journal owners, editors, reviewers, researchers, technology providers, and scholarly infrastructure organizations worldwide.

These partnerships underpin responsible journal governance, publication ethics, author identification, reviewer recognition, persistent identifiers, metadata exchange, indexing readiness, content preservation, and international visibility. Our registrations, memberships, and service-provider collaborations are listed on the Memberships and Partners page.

Our History

Brieflands began in 2007 as a small editorial initiative inside a medical institute, set up to publish a single medical journal. It was led by Dr. Siavash Miri (MD, PhD) and Prof. Seyed-Moayed Alavian (MD).

As the team's editorial, technical, and publishing experience grew, it took on more medical and scientific journals. The publishing activities were formally registered in the Netherlands on 29 March 2011, operating at the time under the name Kowsarmedical Publishing. Over the following decade the portfolio, editorial network, service range, and in-house journal-management infrastructure all expanded.

In 2022 the organization adopted the Brieflands brand, better reflecting its international role across science, technology, medicine, and scholarly communication.

Today we continue to invest in journal development, publishing technology, editorial quality, research integrity, international collaboration, discoverability, and the long-term availability of scholarly content. The people behind the publisher are listed on the boards and staff page.

Business Profile and Registration Details

Brieflands is a scholarly publishing business registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce and headquartered in ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. Its registered activities include the publication of periodicals and journals.

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