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.

Which Creative Commons license to choose?

The choice of a Creative Commons license remains the choice of an author or a journal. However, the impact of the choice of certain licences must sometimes be taken into account. Some funders require...

Contract Creating a journal Intellectual property Legal

Publishing agreements

The publishing agreement, also known as a publishing contract or copyright assignment contract, is an agreement between the journal (the legal entity producing the journal) and the article's author. It defines, in a clear and unequivocal manner, which intellectual property rights are...

Dissemination Indexation Intellectual property

Declare your distribution policy in Sherpa Romeo

Some databases, such as the DOAJ, require journals to post their distribution policy. The DOAJ, for example, adds a link to Sherpa Romeo on the...

Archiving

Archiving with CLOCKSS

The centre Mersenne uses the services of CLOCKKS to perpetuate the archives of its articles. It is a permanent archiving solution using a replication system...

Creating a journal Scientific publishing

Why choose a publishing platform?

It may be tempting for an editorial office to publish its journal on a research centre's website, for example, or to create a page dedicated to its journal. It is indeed quite simple to create a web page and...

Advice to authors Dissemination Golden path Scientific publishing

Predatory publishers

A predatory publisher presents itself as a scientific publisher but its objective is purely commercial. In December 2019, Agnes Grudniewicz et al. published this definition in the journal Nature: "Predatory journals and publishers are entities that...