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.

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.

Ethics Tools

COPE : Best Practice Guide

COPE has published a good practice guide on ethical issues. This COPE guide provides tools for dealing with a crisis situation.

Dissemination Identification and indexing

Identifiers

ISNI code, IdHal, researcherID, IdRef... are researcher identifiers. How are they created? How to manage them? What are they for?

Creating a journal Funding

Costs of a journal

Publishing a journal has a cost. Apart from the research time devoted to the production of scientific articles, what other expenses should you think about when you plan to create a scientific journal?

Ethics Open access stakeholders

Ethical Guidelines of the AMS : summary

Summary of the American Mathematical Society's ethical guidelines: ethical rules, responsibility of authors and publishers, etc.

Dissemination Open access stakeholders Tools

Publish in HAL

HAL is a multidisciplinary open archive. Researchers can submit their own scientific articles with the agreement of their co-authors and in compliance with the publishers' policy.