LibGuides: Student Publications at Tufts: Production

Curating Consistent and Quality Content

A style guide is a set of guidelines that you can provide to authors to keep the content of the articles in your journal consistent. Some examples of things you can ask of your authors are citation styles, the format of tables and graphs, the file types that you will accept, how they add supplementary materials (like datasets), a structured abstract, or other things that will help your journal have consistent look, feel, and quality. Providing these guidelines to your authors will allow them to think about the content, not how it looks, and will help you when it comes time to edit the articles you receive.

Below are some resources that can help you decided on different elements of your style guide and resources that you can point your authors to.

Citing Sources
This guide will introduce you to many citation styles and where to find more resources about them.
Digital Design Studio (DDS)
The Digital Design Studio (DDS) at Tisch Library can help with design and producing audiovisual content.
Data Visualization Resources
The specialists at the Data Lab have created a list of resources to help create accurate and informative data visualizations.
Writing Support - StAAR Center
The Writing Support staff at the Academic Resource Center can help you craft your written document, from the initial ideas to the final product. This service is available to the Tufts community on the Medford campus.
Tufts Health Sciences Writing Consultants
Free drop-in or appointment writing assistance available to all health sciences students at Tufts' Boston campus. See this guide to schedule an appointment, and view resources for writers, including helpful books available at the Hirsh Health Sciences Library.
Ginn Writing Center
If you are a member of the Fletcher School community, you can make appointments to meet with a Writing Tutor through this link.

Hosting platforms

WordPress at Tufts
Tufts Technology Services provides access to WordPress, an easy-to-use web-hosting platform.
Open Science Framework
The Open Science Framework is a free way to distribute your articles, data, and other work. The system gives DOIs and allows linking to other systems like Box and GitHub.
GitHub Pages
GitHub is a great place to store your data, code, and documents with good version control. Use GitHub Pages to create nice webpages from your GitHub repository!
Open Journal Systems
PKP is a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing. This solution is not officially currently supported at Tufts, but if you are interested please contact the Scholarly Communications team (libsct@elist.tufts.edu).