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Guides, templates and reports

Everything here is free to use and adapt under CC BY 4.0, whether or not you publish with us.

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.

Report · PDF, 2.4 MB · 48 pages · June 2026

Editorial policy template

Scope, peer review model, ethics, appeals, corrections and retractions: the policy set indexers expect to find on your site.

Template · DOCX, 84 KB · Updated May 2026

Indexing readiness checklist

What DOAJ, Scopus and Web of Science each require, what they check first, and the order to approach them in.

Guide · PDF, 610 KB · 12 pages · April 2026

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.

Guide · PDF, 380 KB · 8 pages · March 2026

Journal costing model

A worked spreadsheet for estimating the true annual cost of running a journal, including the labour usually left uncounted.

Template · XLSX, 120 KB · Updated July 2026

Hosting agreement (specimen)

The standard agreement between the Hub and a hosted journal, published so you can read the terms before making contact.

Policy · PDF, 240 KB · 6 pages · February 2026

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.

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