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.

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...

Dissemination Identification and indexing Open access stakeholders

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.

Creating a journal Identity of the journal Legal

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?

Identification and indexing Indexation Open access stakeholders

Crossref

Crossref is a DOI registration agency (Link to DOI article). The list of agencies is available on the International DOI Foundation website. Organisation...

Indexation Open access stakeholders

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...

Creating a journal Mock-up

Typesetting and proofreading

The Centre Mersenne provides services for typesetting and proofreading. This expression immediately brings to mind the article's online presentation, its proper viewing: typography, display of metadata, layout... But what...