Editorial support services

The mission of the Department of Libraries, Information and Open Science is to support the scientific community's move towards open science. It therefore provides support services for researchers and PhD candidates, as well as journal editorial teams, in their transition to open publishing. From raising awareness of publishing issues to the publication of journals or books, the Publications Unit can help you with your projects.

Are you an author? We can inform you about open science issues: what is an open archive? Why deposit in HAL? What version of my manuscript should I deposit in HAL? etc.

We can also help you with legal issues: choice of Creative Commons licenses, image rights, reproduction rights, etc.

Are you part of a journal's editorial team? Depending on your requirements, we can advise you so as to improve the visibility of your journal and increase the quality in accordance with the standards of open science:

• best practice editorial criteria: editorial policy, transparency, ethics, etc.
• definition of the journal's legal framework: legal status, ISSN allocation, author contracts, choice of CC licenses, reproduction rights, etc.
•  journal hosting and distribution:
  • help with search engine optimisation to improve journal visibility (DOAJ, Mir@bel, etc.),
  • widespread use of identifiers (ORCID, IdHAL, IdRef, DOI, etc.),
  • choice of distribution platforms for journals,
  • help in putting together applications for open science publishing platforms (OpenEdition, Centre Mersenne, etc.)
  • In 2025, an open publishing platform will be used to disseminate open access academic works (journals, conference proceedings, books, etc.) without publication fees.
• In connection with data management: definition of a data policy, repository research, drafting of data papers, etc.

We can also help you improve the visibility of your research: digital identity, research social networks, scientific blogs...