This document includes essential elements of Diamond OA journals (developed in the context of Collaboration for sustainable OA publishing in Africa project), a journal policies template, as well as an author statement and conflict of interest and licence agreement templates, and technical guidelines with the elements to include in article landing pages and the full-text of the article, how to display licensing information and general advice regarding journal websites and accessibility.
Many of these recommendations will be relevant to OA journals using other business models.
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