About iPlaces Gump Station
iPlaces Gump Station is the open scholarly publication of the Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station, University of California, Berkeley, on Mo’orea, French Polynesia. It publishes the full range of research outputs connected to the station and its place: research articles and reports, research project records, conference abstracts, and student papers. Every record is citable, has its own DOI, and links its authors, projects, data and place.
iPlaces Gump Station is issued by the Gump South Pacific Research Station (University of California, Berkeley), which is its publisher for citation purposes. It is published on the iPlaces platform by iPlaces LLC, Nevada, USA, which registers its ISSN.
Editors
Editor: Neil Davies, Director, Gump South Pacific Research Station, University of California, Berkeley
Editorial Board: coming soon
The editor declares conflicts of interest. Records the editor authored or co-authored are handled by Erin Robinson, SPRI CIO.
What review each record gets
Record type | Review before publication |
|---|---|
Research article or report | Reviewed by the editor and at least one independent reviewer with relevant expertise |
Research project record | Reviewed by the editor and at least one independent reviewer with relevant expertise |
Conference abstract | Checked by an editor; abstracts are accepted by the conference organisers |
Student paper (including historical class papers) | Checked by the course instructor and the editor |
Submitting
Authors sign in with ORCID and submit through the station’s editorial system. Author guidelines: https://iplacesalliance.org/docs/. Submissions are free, and there are no author fees of any kind: no submission, processing, page or publication charges.
Access, licence and copyright
The metadata of every record (title, authors, abstract, place, DOI and links) is free to read, with no sign-in. Most full content is open too. Some content may be restricted, for example to protect Indigenous knowledge, sensitive locations or unpublished data. Access to restricted content is set by the station. Where content is open, unless the record says otherwise, it is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) licence. Authors keep copyright in their work. Authors credit any material from third parties.
Ethical, legal and social responsibility
The station follows the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) on authorship, conflicts of interest, research misconduct and data fabrication.
Certain data, samples and knowledge may need special consideration for ethical, legal or social reasons, including privacy and commercial confidentiality. Examples include, but are not limited to, traditional knowledge, archaeological artefacts, endangered species, medical data and human subject research. In some cases government permits are required, including research permits from French Polynesian authorities. In other cases there may be commercial considerations or social contexts where consent should be obtained. Authors address these when they submit, and the station sets access to the record accordingly. Records can carry Local Contexts Labels and Notices that state community expectations for use, and users are asked to respect them.
Corrections, new versions and withdrawals
Once published, a record is not changed silently. Authors correct or update their work by submitting a new version. An editor reviews it before it is published.
Minor errors (typos, broken links) may be fixed by an editor.
A record may be withdrawn for serious error, misconduct, legal reasons, or at a community’s request concerning Indigenous knowledge. A withdrawn record keeps its DOI, which leads to a withdrawal notice, and the content is removed.
Concerns about a record, or appeals against an editorial decision, go to the editors at the address below. Until the advisory board is in place, appeals are heard by Erin Robinson, iPlaces LLC; appeals about records she handled are heard by the editor.
Identifiers, indexing and preservation
DOIs are registered with DataCite, and metadata is shared openly with DataCite, ORCID, OpenAlex and the Ocean InfoHub (ODIS).
Long-term preservation: arrangements to deposit published records with CLOCKSS, a community-governed preservation archive, are being finalised.
Privacy
See the iPlaces privacy notice: https://iplacesalliance.org/privacy/
Contact
Gump South Pacific Research Station, Mo’orea, French Polynesia gumpstation@iplacesalliance.org