Scipedia is an open scientific portal and an open access academic repository that hosts academic articles, journals[1]​ and conference proceedings "Proceedings (academic meeting)"). The portal offers a place where the community can work collaboratively on research topics and open discussion forums about them.

Scipedia was launched in May 2017 and collaborates in the European H2020 project of the "European forum and oBsErvatory for OPEN science in transport" [2]​ and complies with the EU guidelines on Open Access.[3]​.

Articles can be imported from standard formats (such as .pdf, .docx or Tex / LaTex)[4]​ or created with Scipedia's own editor. This editor allows you to work collaboratively and embed additional material such as video, images, data sets, models, and more in the text. As a social network, Scipedia includes different tools to facilitate discussion and feedback, such as discussion forums (associated with all published documents), thematic groups or internal messaging.

For this purpose, Scipedia offers a platform that provides free publishing services to disseminate the results of scientific and technical work. It also offers the possibility of payment plans for journals with automatic generation of DOIs, an integrated payment gateway for Article Processing Charges (APCs) or the management of administrative aspects of indexes such as Web of Science or SCOPUS.[5]​.

Published articles and other public documents are available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license free of charge and may be distributed in accordance with the provisions of this license. Scipedia must not incorporate materials that violate the rights of their authors or works with a licensing scheme incompatible with Scipedia's scheme.

There are four different types of publications: Journals, Archives, Collections and Proceedings.

The system allows for blind peer review (with designated peers) or open peer review (collaborative) where registered users can comment on the article and authors can answer their questions.[6]​.

An integral part of Scipedia's mission is to publish journals with the highest impact. Applying the peer review process is one way to ensure the overall quality and integrity of the research presented in a publication. Scipedia publications (except those of type 'Collection' and 'Proceedings') will follow a collaborative peer review process. Scipedia's peer review process aims to maintain publication standards, improve document quality, and ultimately determine suitability for publication in the selected journal.