Lodel is a high quality web publishing system. It is user friendly and easily configurable for specific needs. Lodel is installed on a web server like many CMS, and used remotely with a web browser. It enables to collaborative and remote work  (office, home, with distant teams).

Documents to be published may be prepared locally with a word-processor (MS Word, OpenOffice.org.) or directly edited online. Lodel uses the paragraph styles (for instance: title, author, abstract) to automatically generate synopsis, table of authors, etc. The list of the styles understood by Lodel can be extended and configured.

Lodel is particularly respectful of scientific edition conventions, such as footnotes, the structure of the text, the different character sets corresponding to non-latin languages, diacritical signs, small capitals, hard spaces.

According to appropriation principles, the software enables the editorial staff to upload the journal by himself, without having to be a computer specialist.

Lodel is compliant with the web standards (Dublin Core, RSS, OAI) and generates XML documents. It’s a free software under GPL licence, developed by the Cléo’s team. It can be freely downloaded here.