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.
Creative Commons licences
Creative Commons licences, or CC licences, do not replace copyright law. They clarify, in a simple manner, the permissions granted by the...
Dissemination policy
It is important that your dissemination policy and your editorial policy are consistent. Therefore, it is important to consider your dissemination policy in a comprehensive way: the licence adopted by the...
ORCID
In order to securely identify researchers with the same name, there are different identifiers: ISNI, IdRef, VIAF, ORCID, ResearcherID, idHAL... If some of them are created and attributed automatically by the national libraries, others are not.
Sections of a scientific journal website
When creating your scientific journal, you will create a website. What are the essential headings and what information should be included?
Crossref
Crossref is a DOI registration agency (Link to DOI article). The list of agencies is available on the International DOI Foundation website. Organisation...
Mir@bel
Mir@bel is a contraction of "Mutualisation d'Informations sur les Revues et leurs Accès dans les Bases En Ligne" (Mutualisation of Information on Journals and their Access in Online Databases). It is a portal for reporting access to French electronic scientific journals. The platform...
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