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About the series

A publishing home built around the conference, not the other way round.

GCP exists because a good conference programme deserves a permanent record, and most programme committees would rather run their conference than run a publishing operation.

Scope and aims

Grinrey Conference Proceedings (GCP) publishes the peer-reviewed output of academic and professional conferences, symposia, and workshops across all disciplines. GCP does not run conferences itself and does not solicit individual papers outside of a conference programme: every paper published in the series first went through the review and acceptance process of the conference it belongs to.

The series exists to solve a narrow but common problem: a conference produces a set of accepted, presented papers, and someone needs to turn that set into a permanent, citable, professionally formatted volume with a DOI, a consistent look, and a stable home online. GCP is that "someone."

Publication model

Each conference that publishes with GCP receives its own numbered proceedings volume (or a sequence of volumes, for multi-track or recurring events). A volume is a bounded, dated collection — it closes once the agreed set of papers is published and does not accept later additions, which keeps the record matching what was actually presented at the conference.

Diamond open access Organizer-funded No reader fees No author fees CC BY 4.0

This is sometimes called a "diamond" open-access model: neither the reader nor the individual author pays, and the costs of production are met by the conference itself, agreed in advance with the editorial office. This keeps the incentive structure simple — GCP is paid to produce a volume well, not to accept more papers into it.

Editorial oversight and review

GCP does not re-review accepted conference papers on technical merit; that responsibility sits with the conference's own programme committee, and the Organizer Guidelines set out the minimum review standard a conference must document before its papers can be published in the series. What GCP's editorial office checks directly is whether a submitted volume meets the series' structural and integrity requirements: correct formatting, a documented review process, similarity screening, complete author and affiliation metadata, and a named volume editor who can be contacted about any paper in the collection.

Every volume has a volume editor, nominated by the organizing committee and confirmed by GCP, who is the point of contact for editorial questions, corrections, and any post-publication concerns about that volume.

Licensing and archiving

All papers are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0) unless a conference has a documented reason to request an alternative open licence, agreed with the editorial office in advance. Under CC BY 4.0, anyone may copy, redistribute, and adapt a paper for any purpose, including commercial use, provided the original authors are credited.

Published volumes are hosted on the GCP platform and mirrored to at least one independent long-term preservation archive, so that a paper remains retrievable even if the series' own infrastructure changes in the future.

Discoverability and indexing

Each paper receives a persistent Digital Object Identifier (DOI) on publication, and each volume receives its own ISBN. Metadata for every paper — title, authors, affiliations, abstract, and DOI — is deposited with standard scholarly registries so that papers are findable through citation databases and search tools rather than only through this website.

How the series is run

GCP is run by a small permanent editorial office supported by a rotating pool of volume editors drawn from the conferences the series publishes. The permanent office is responsible for the series-wide standards described throughout this site: formatting, ethics, licensing, and production timelines. Volume editors are responsible for the academic content and review record of their own conference's volume.