Verify Brieflands’ publishing credentials: COPE membership, Crossref DOIs, ORCID iDs, Portico preservation, JATS XML and BOIP trademark.
Brieflands has been a registered publisher with the National Library of the Netherlands since 2011 and is a publisher member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The memberships, partnerships and technical standards set out below govern how our journals handle publication ethics, author and article identification, long-term preservation, machine-readable metadata, and copyright. Each entry links to an independent record so that authors, editors, reviewers, librarians and indexing bodies can verify it at source.
Our commitment to publication ethics
Brieflands is a publisher member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and our journals are held to COPE’s Core Practices — covering publication-ethics policy, authorship and contributorship, peer review integrity, conflicts of interest, ethical oversight, complaints and appeals, and post-publication corrections and retractions. The memberships and standards listed below extend that ethical foundation to the infrastructure it depends on: transparency of ownership and contact details, persistent identifiers for articles and authors, a declared digital-preservation arrangement, machine-readable full-text metadata, and unambiguous licensing and copyright terms. Each card states which of those commitments it supports and links to an independent record you can check.
Publication ethics and editorial integrity
Frameworks that define how our editors handle misconduct allegations, corrections, conflicts of interest and peer review.
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Publisher member
Brieflands journals operate under COPE’s Core Practices, which cover allegations of misconduct, authorship and contributorship, complaints and appeals, conflicts of interest, data and reproducibility, ethical oversight, intellectual property, journal management, peer review processes, and post-publication discussions and corrections. Our editors have access to COPE guidance and case discussions when handling complex ethical cases.
Web of Science Researcher Profiles (formerly Publons)
Reviewer recognition
Peer review is the most labour-intensive and least visible contribution in scholarly publishing. Reviewers for Brieflands journals can record and display their verified review and editorial activity on a Web of Science Researcher Profile, the service into which Publons was merged by Clarivate. This gives reviewers a citable, independent record of work that would otherwise remain invisible.
Persistent identifiers and metadata
Infrastructure that makes every article and every author permanently and unambiguously identifiable.
Crossref — DOI registration and metadata deposit
Member
As a Crossref member, Brieflands assigns a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to every article and deposits the accompanying bibliographic metadata and reference lists. DOIs give each article a permanent, resolvable address that continues to work even if a URL changes, and reference deposits allow citations to and from our content to be tracked across the scholarly record.
ORCID
Member
Brieflands is an ORCID member and supports the collection and display of ORCID iDs for authors. An ORCID iD distinguishes an author from every other researcher with a similar name, follows them across institutions and name changes, and links their published work to a single verified profile.
Long-term preservation and archiving
Arrangements that keep the published record available if a journal, or the publisher, ceases to operate.
Portico
Participating publisher
Brieflands content is deposited with Portico, a community-supported digital preservation archive. Portico holds preserved copies independently of our own systems and releases them to participating libraries under defined trigger events, such as a title ceasing publication or a publisher no longer being able to deliver it.
Koninklijke Bibliotheek — National Library of the Netherlands
Registered publisher since 2011
Brieflands has been a registered publisher with the Koninklijke Bibliotheek since 2011. National library registration places our output within the Netherlands’ national deposit and archiving framework and provides a further, jurisdictionally independent layer of preservation alongside Portico.
Content standards, rights and legal identity
Technical formats that make our content machine-readable, and the arrangements that make its reuse terms unambiguous.
NLM / JATS XML (DTD v3)
Technical standard
Full text and metadata for Brieflands articles are produced in NLM/JATS-conformant XML (DTD v3), the established markup standard for scholarly journal content. Structured XML underpins accurate reference linking, accessibility, machine readability, and reliable long-term migration of our content.
Copyright Clearance Center
Member
Through the Copyright Clearance Center, permission requests for Brieflands content are handled through an established collective licensing route. Readers, educators and other publishers can obtain and document reuse permissions in a single, auditable process rather than through ad hoc correspondence.
Registered trademark — Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP)
Registered trademark
Brieflands is a registered trademark with the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property. A registered mark lets authors and readers confirm that they are dealing with the genuine publisher and gives us a legal basis to act against journals or websites that impersonate our titles.
Verifying our records and raising a concern
Every claim on this page is intended to be independently checkable. If you find an entry that appears out of date, or if you have a publication-ethics concern about any Brieflands journal or article, please tell us and we will investigate in line with COPE guidance.
- Brieflands editorial policies — publication ethics, authorship, corrections and retractions
- Open peer review at Brieflands — how review reports are handled and published
- Company profile — ownership, legal entity and registered address
- Journal archive — the published record across our titles
- Contact us — to report a concern or request a correction