The benefits of publishing with us:

• Open science: The journal adopts the principle of open science. Since 2018 (year of launch of the journal) all published articles have been available in open access (no subscription fees) with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license allowing the content to be shared and adapted, provided that the author and the original source are properly cited.

 

• Free: The journal does not charge any publication fees (no Article Processing Charges or APC) for the submission, evaluation, production, the open access distribution and archiving of your article. It is therefore free for authors who retain their copyright following publication, without restriction.

 

• Speed: Postprint (continuous publishing). As soon as your article is accepted, following the peer review, up to six weeks before the publication of the regular issue, your article is immediately post online and accessible free of charge.

 

• High standard of review: The journal offers a double masked anonymous peer review process (https://sips-snahp.ojs.umontreal.ca/index.php/sips-snahp/reviewprocess) according to ethical standards of the scholarly publishing community.

 

• Visibility:
  • The journal is already indexed in several databases (see: https://sips-snahp.ojs.umontreal.ca/index.php/sips-snahp/information/librarians), including DOAJ, ERIH PLUS, NLM, ScienceGate. Sc Nurs Health Pract / Sc inf prat santé received the DOAJ Seal awarded to a minority (10%) of journals for the demonstration of best practices in open access publishing.
  • A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is assigned to each article; ​​thus, facilitating the accessibility, preservation, and citation of your article.