NEMESIS – Example of open access journal promoting negative results in sholarly publications.

Olszewski, Raphaël [UCL]

Nemesis (Negative Effects in MEdical ScIenceS) is peer-reviewed, free, open-access scientific University-founded journal (UCLouvain, Belgium in 2018). Currently most of the scientific journals accept to publish only ”positive effects”of experimental and clinical research. Only successful studies have the right to be published and cited. However, positive effects in research are frequently achieved after years of negative results. The negative results should also be accessible for scientific community as they represent the main source of progress, of inspiration, and of hope. In the open access journal all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. There are no charges for authors neither for readers. Nemesis is using creative common license CC-BY-SA. The peer-review is performed by the Editorial Board. Nemesis accepts for publication: original contribution in the field of oral and craniomaxillofacial surgery, three-dimensional cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) dentomaxillofacial imaging, and physical anthropology and archaeology around the head. The first scope of Nemesis is to accept studies providing with negative results obtained after applying a correct methodology. Nemesis journal accepts also studies describing complications and their management, the worst cases, diagnostic and treatment failures, devices and implants failures, orphan diseases, neglected areas of research related to our journal scope, drugs adverse effects, technical problems, relapse and failures in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Nemesis is opened to multilingualism and provides translations of original articles in English and French into Polish and Ukrainian.