Laurent Capelli, Episciences.org : promote the emergence of epijournals, COAR 4th Annual Meeting, 7-8 mai 2013

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Episciences.org
promote
the
emergence
of
epijournals
Laurent
Capelli
laurent.capelli@ccsd.cnrs.fr

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CNRS
:
Na3onal
Centre
for
Scien3fic
Research
• Under
the
administra9ve
supervision
of
French
Ministry
in
charge
of
research
• 34,000
employees
– 11,415
researchers
– 14,090
engineers,
technicians
and
administra9ve
• Covers
all
scien9fic
disciplines
• 1074
research
units
(90%
of
whose
are
joint
research
laboratories
with
universi9es
and
industry)

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Founded
in
2000
Mission:
Development
of
OA
and
related
services
for
the
higher
educa3on
and
research
community
Partner
in
European
projects:
MedOANet,
DARIAH-­‐EU,
PEER,
Driver,
OpenAire
Episciences.org
-­‐
hXp://episciences.org
EpiJournals
pla[orm
HAL
-­‐
hXp://hal.archives-­‐ouvertes.fr
HAL
is
a
mul9-­‐disciplinary
open
access
archive
for
the
deposit
and
dissemia9on
of
scien9fic
research
papers
TEL
-­‐
hXp://tel.archives-­‐ouvertes.fr
The
purpose
of
TEL
(thèses-­‐EN-­‐ligne)
is
to
facilitate
the
self
archiving
of
Ph.D
thesis
manuscripts
Sciencesconf.org
-­‐
hXp://www.sciencesconf.org
Web
pla[orm
addressed
to
organisers
of
conferences,
workshops,
or
other
scien9fic
mee9ngs.
This
facilitates
the
various
stages
of
organizing
a
conference.
ISIDORE
-­‐
hXp://www.rechercheisidore.fr
Web
3.0
search
and
3store
engine
pla[orm
for
Arts
and
Humani9es
MédiHAL
-­‐
hXp://medihal.archives-­‐ouvertes.fr
MédiHal
is
an
open
archive
which
enables
to
deposit
image-­‐type
scien9fic
iconographic
documents

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Working
base
/
Context
• Unpublished
submission
in
OA
Repositories
• Unsa9sfying
scien9fic
cau9on
• OA
papers
are
under-­‐cited
than
they
should
• Exponen9al
and
exorbitant
prices
of
conven9onal
journals

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A
solu3on:
epijournals
• Journals
built
on
AO repositories
• Editorial
boards
– organize
peer
reviewing
and
scien9fic
discussions
– add
value
to
these
archives
• Alterna9ve
to
exis9ng
economic
models

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Episciences.org
• Journals
hos9ng
pla[orm
• Supervised
by
a
disciplinary
«
EpicommiXee
»
• At
the
heart
of
what
is
a
scien9fic
publica9on:
– peer
reviewing
– Episciences.org
≠
edi9ng
process

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Episciences.org
Episciences.org
OA
repositories
papers
Peer
reviewed
papers
Accepted
papers
Crea9on
Distribu9on
Reviewing
Accepta9on
contributor
Reviewer
Editorial
board
Submission

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Submission
• ID
of
the
accepted
e-­‐print
on
OA
– HAL,
arXiv
or
any
OAI
compa9ble
repositories.
• Depending
from
configura9on:
– pos9ng
to
an
editorial
board
member
– suggest
qualified
reviewers
• Relayed
to
reviewing

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Reviewing
• Editorial
board:
– Appoints
referees
– Configures
the
review
scale
– Modifica9on/Acceptance
according
to
reviewer’s
advice
• Works
between
reviewers
and
contributor:
– is
anonymous
– to
clarify/discuss
• Each
reviewer
fills
the
scale

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Modifica3on
• Correc9ons:
new
version
in
OA
or
upload
directly
pdf
in
Episciences.org
• New
reviewing
cycle
• Final
accepted
version
must
be
submiXed
in
the
OA

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Accepta3on
• Papers
are
referenced
in
the
journal
– Browsing:
volume,
author,
etc.
– Searching:
Solr
• Send
the
journal
reference
to
OA
repository
• Stamps
the
PDF

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Dates
• First
tests:
June,
2013
• Beta
launch,
first
journals:
September,
2013
• 3
domains
journals
to
come
• Math
• Computer
sciences
• Biology

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URLs
• h"p://episciences.org
• h"p://hal.archives-­‐ouvertes.fr
• h"p://ccsd.cnrs.fr