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Rigor, unhurried.
Publishing built to last.

Calm Publika runs open-access journals, conference proceedings and scholarly books — plus the publishing platform we build them on, Docket, available for other presses too.

Journals

Four journals. One editorial standard.

From consumer protection to comparative legal technology — every title runs the same double-blind review and open-access commitment.

Proceedings

Conference papers, published properly.

We turn a conference's accepted papers into a permanent, citable, open-access proceedings volume — with the same peer-review rigor as our journals.

Docket Platform

The theme we publish on —
now for your press too.

Docket is the OJS theme built for Calm Publika's own journals: invoicing, editorial dashboards, contact tracking. Other publishers can license it too.

4Peer-reviewed journals
100%Open access, no reader fees
COPEAligned publication ethics
&moreProceedings & books opening soon

01 — What We Publish

One publisher, four kinds of output.

Journals are where we started — proceedings, books and our own publishing platform are how we're growing, without loosening the same editorial standard.

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Journals

Four peer-reviewed, open-access titles — and growing, each with its own editorial board and scope.

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Proceedings

Conference papers published as a permanent, citable open-access volume — same review pipeline as our journals.

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Books

Edited volumes and monographs from our editorial community, peer-reviewed and published open access.

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Licensable

Docket OJS Theme

The invoicing, editorial-overview and contact-tracking platform behind our own journals — built for other presses to run on too.

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02 — Resources

Whatever brings you here, start here.

Choose your journal

Match your manuscript's subject to one of our four scopes before you submit.

Check the guidelines

Formatting, citation style and originality screening happen before review, not after.

Submit directly

Every journal runs its own submission system — no separate Calm Publika account needed.

Double-blind, every time

You review the argument, not the author — identities are withheld both directions.

Clear timelines

Review windows are set up front, with reminders — not open-ended requests.

Credited for your time

Reviewer acknowledgement, on request, for every completed review.

One shared editorial dashboard

Every journal editor works from the same overview tooling — no piecing status together by email.

Autonomy, same standard

Your journal's scope and board are yours — the publication-ethics baseline is shared.

Room to grow

New sections, special issues or a second annual volume — we scale with your editorial board.

No subscription, no paywall

Every article across every Calm Publika title is free to index and free to read.

Preserved independently

Published articles are archived outside any single journal's continued operation.

Consistent metadata

Every title exports the same clean metadata format — no per-journal quirks to work around.

04 — Publishing Standards

The same rigor, every title, every issue.

These standards apply publisher-wide, across journals, proceedings and books alike.

4.1

Double-blind peer review

Every manuscript is reviewed by at least two independent reviewers before a decision is made.

4.2

Open access, no reader fees

Every publication is free to read on release under a Creative Commons license.

4.3

COPE-aligned ethics

Authorship, conflicts of interest and misconduct are handled per COPE guidelines, consistently.

4.4

Similarity screening

Every submission is screened for originality before it reaches reviewers, not after.

4.5

Correction & retraction

Published work can be corrected or retracted through a transparent, documented process.

4.6

Long-term archiving

Every publication is preserved independently of any single title's continued operation.

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05 — About Calm Publika

"Calm" is the point — not the pace of a press release, the pace of a careful reader.

Calm Publika is a small, editorially-led open-access publisher based in Indonesia. We started with one law journal and are deliberately adding titles, proceedings volumes and books one at a time — each with its own editorial board and scope — rather than launching a wide catalogue and thinning our review standards to fill it.

Every journal, proceedings volume and book we publish shares one publisher-wide commitment: an outcome decided by the argument, reviewed by people qualified to judge it, on a timeline that respects both the author's work and the reviewer's. The platform behind all of this — Docket — is the same one we now offer other presses.

Atrium of the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia in Jakarta
National Library of Indonesia, Jakarta — photo by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0

06 — Get In Touch

Have a manuscript, a conference, or a publisher's platform to compare notes on?

Authors: pick your journal and submit directly. Everyone else — proceedings, books, Docket licensing — reach us below.

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