Episciences is a complete platform for editing and publishing scientific overlay journals covering all disciplines.
An overlay journal is a scientific journal, with a unique editorial line and publication project, which relies on a diamond Open Access evaluation and publication platform.
There are no access fees.
There are no publication fees.
An Episciences overlay journal has a complete publishing system on its own site which allows it to manage both the editorial workflow and the publication of articles.
This model allows for a single blind peer review: only the names of the authors are known.
The publication process is backed up by the open repositories.
The fact of depositing an article in pre-publication on an open archive allows the author to make his or her research available immediately and to protect himself or herself from possible plagiarism (the article is deposited in an institutional open archive that time-stamps the deposit, and it is indexed in scientific databases and search engines).
Evaluation and publication times are reduced by using the Episciences platform, which offers, on the same site, a complete editorial workflow and a publication interface.
Each overlay journal can choose to make the expert reports accessible, in order to make the evaluation process more transparent.
Episciences meets the FAIR criteria, the exemplary criteria defined by the Open Science Steering Committee and, for social sciences and humanities (SSH) overlay journal, the InSHS criteria of good editorial practice and open science (PDF in French).
Diamond open access allows immediate free access—without identification or DRM—to publications through their deposit in an open archive. Submission and publication are not conditional on the payment of a per-unit publication fee (APC).
The data and metadata produced are open, standardised, structured, easily accessible and interoperable. Each published editorial unit has a unique, persistent identifier (DOI).
Throughout the editorial process, the article remains the full and complete property of its author.
Long-term preservation is ensured by Cines.
Page updated on: 14/02/2022