Toolbox
This tool is aimed at the editorial teams of scientific journals, but also at anyone interested in open science and the dissemination of open access journals.
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Here you will find many resources for creating a journal: what are the different committees? how does the peer review process work? what are the costs of a scientific journal?
Moreover, we also publish in this tool more general information on open access publishing: what are the different licences? What is Sherpa Romeo for? how to avoid plagiarism…
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...
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...
