Toolbox

This toolkit is aimed at the editorial teams of scientific journals, but also at anyone interested in open science and the distribution of open access journals.

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Here you’ll find a wealth of resources for setting up a journal: what are the legal requirements? Who can own the title of the journal? How to reference your journal? and so on.

This toolbox also contains more general information on open access publishing: what are the different licences? What is Sherpa Romeo for? How to avoid plagiarism? and so on.

Creating a journal Organisation of the journal

Editorial archives

How should documents resulting from the scientific publication process (evaluation reports, correspondence, etc.) be handled?

Dissemination Tools

Semi-automatic translation tool of the centre Mersenne

Open access stakeholders

Interview with Louis Esperet on the creation of the journal “Innovations in Graph Theory”

Louis Esperet talks about the creation of the open-access scientific journal "Innovations in Graph Theory".

Identification and indexing Indexation

Index your journal in the Web of Science

How to index your journal in the Web of Science? Where to apply? What are the acceptance criteria?

Ethics Intellectual property

Plagiarism

When you think about plagiarism, you immediately imagine the reproduction of a text without citing the references. However, there are many more variations on plagiarism than you might think.

Ethics Identity of the journal

International Mathematical Union : Best Current Practices for Journals

Summary of the rights and duties of the different actors in scientific publishing