Three policy layers
Treata uses Publisher Mandatory (P), Publisher Default (D), and Journal Specific (J) requirements. Mandatory policies establish protections that journals inherit. Defaults provide a starting position where local configuration is permitted. Journal-specific settings define matters that genuinely differ by title, discipline, or publishing model.
Inheritance rather than duplication
Canonical publisher policies should be linked and inherited rather than copied into many journal pages. This reduces policy drift and makes central updates manageable while preserving approved journal-specific requirements.
Journal Policy Profile
Each journal should have a policy profile covering identity, scope, article types, peer-review model, access and license, fees, data expectations, AI requirements, research ethics, reporting, preservation, and other applicable settings. Unconfigured fields should not be filled with invented assumptions.
Version-aware publishing
Material policy changes are versioned and historical applicability is preserved. This makes it possible to determine which rules applied to an earlier submission or publication while maintaining one current canonical source.