Guides, templates and reports
Diamond publishing in Ireland: landscape report
The first comprehensive count of Irish diamond journals, their disciplines, hosting arrangements and sustainability risks.
Editorial policy template
Scope, peer review model, ethics, appeals, corrections and retractions: the policy set indexers expect to find on your site.
Indexing readiness checklist
What DOAJ, Scopus and Web of Science each require, what they check first, and the order to approach them in.
Choosing a Creative Commons licence
What each licence permits, what it means for authors and reuse, and why NC and ND clauses cause problems for indexing.
Journal costing model
A worked spreadsheet for estimating the true annual cost of running a journal, including the labour usually left uncounted.
Hosting agreement (specimen)
The standard agreement between the Hub and a hosted journal, published so you can read the terms before making contact.
Reusing these
All Hub-authored resources are CC BY 4.0. Adapt them for your own journal or institution without asking. Attribution to Diamond Ireland is all we need.
Files are being prepared and will be attached to each entry above. If you need one before it appears here, ask us and we will send it.