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.

Identification and indexing Indexation

Indexing your journal in Scopus

How to index your journal in Scopus? What are the acceptance criteria?

Creating a journal Ethics

Personal data processing policy

How to write a paragraph on the management of personal data on your website?

Open access stakeholders

MathOA, a foundation to help maths journals move towards open access

What is MathOA? What are its actions? How can MathOA help a journal move to open access?

Identification and indexing Indexation

DOI : Digital Object Identifier

The DOI is a unique and persistent identifier assigned to digital resources. How to get one? What is it for?

Creating a journal Legal Legal deposit

The legal deposit

Which documents are covered by legal deposit? How to use legal deposit, practical tips.

Tools

OJS – Open Journal System

OJS is an open source publishing software for scientific journals. With OJS, editorial teams can manage the entire editorial flow.