Governance

The CCSD Steering Committee is the decision-making body for the three platforms, HAL, Episciences and Sciencesconf.

It is responsible for:

• Defining the overall strategy of the CCSD and deciding on priorities on the basis of proposals from the Steering Committee;
• Approving the budget and all resources of the CCSD;
• Ensuring the consistency of the pricing policy for HAL portals;
• Validating the annual activity report and the financial statement of the CCSD;
• Proposing and discussing the admission of a new trustee;
• Appointing the management of the CCSD;
• Appointing the members of the International Scientific Committee and the Episciences Strategic Orientation Council.

See the members 

As an advisory body, the Episciences Strategic Orientation Board operates within the framework validated by the CCSD Steering Committee.

Its role is to propose guidelines to the CCSD Steering Committee and to provide medium and long-term vision for the Episciences platform. In particular, it is responsible for

• Defining the Episciences roadmap, including editorial policy, development priorities and the Episciences funding model;
• Developing an international dissemination and communication strategy;
• Monitoring existing disciplinary scientific councils and encouraging their creation in new scientific areas;
• Defining the conditions for access to the platform.

The board is made up of representatives from the CCSD’s supervisory bodies and the institutions that allocate human resources to Episciences, as well as the disciplinary scientific councils.

Members

• Olivier Fruchart (CNRS)
• Vincent Acary (Inria)
• Baptiste Bedessem (INRAE)
• Vincent Beffara (Institut Fourier)
• Odile Contat (MESR)
• Marianne Reboul (epiSHS)
• Stéphane Druel (epiMaths)
• Jos Baeten (epiIAM)
• Nathalie Fargier (CCSD)
• Raphaël Tournoy (CCSD)

The role of the disciplinary scientific board is to set the scientific policy of the platform for the disciplines concerned and to stimulate the creation of editorial boards likely to organise new overlay journals, particularly in areas where they need to be developed.

To this end, the disciplinary scientific boards are responsible for:

• evaluating or having evaluated by experts from the academic world the applications of journals wishing to join the platform;
• encouraging experimentation (e.g. open peer review) and, more generally, the appropriation of the platform by researchers;
• be ambassadors of the platform in its scientific community.

The disciplinary scientific boards guarantee the impartiality of the evaluation of applications and the scientific quality of the journals.
The disciplinary scientific boards may also be called upon to provide ethical and professional advice.

There are three disciplinary scientific boards.