We would like to thank all contributors for their advice, comments, support, testing, documentation and code.
Institutional support
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The CNRS supports Episciences by funding two positions. |
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L’Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (Inria) supports the journals of the Episciences IAM (Informatics and Applied Mathematics) thematic community. |
| Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (INRAE) supports the technical development of the platform, in particular by providing a full-time staff member. | |
| The Institut Fourier (UMR5582 CNRS and Université Joseph-Fourier), specialised in fundamental mathematics, supports the Maths journals of Episciences. | |
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Episciences has received support from OpenAIRE and its services, notably for the integration of its service in the OpenAIRE Nexus project |
Open repositories
As an overlay journal service, Episciences relies on third-party services for storage and APIs:
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Founded by Paul Ginsparg in 1991 and now maintained and operated by Cornell Tech, arXiv® is a research sharing platform. |
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BioRxiv is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. |
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Established in autumn 1999 by the IACR (a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the science of cryptology), the Cryptology ePrint Archive provides quick access to recent research in cryptology. |
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DaRUS is the place to archive, share and publish the research data, scripts and codes of the members and partners of the University of Stuttgart. |
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A source of published and unpublished scientific documents from scientific research and higher education, HAL was created in 2001 on the model of arXiv by the physicist Franck Laloë. |
| MedRxiv is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. | |
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RepositóriUM is the institutional repository of the University of Minho, created with the goal of storing, preserving, disseminating, and providing access to the intellectual output of the University of Minho in digital format. |
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The OpenAIRE project, at the forefront of the open access and open data movements in Europe, was commissioned by the European Commission to support its emerging open data policy by providing a general repository for Commission-funded research. CERN, an OpenAIRE partner and pioneer in open source, open access and open data, provided this capability and Zenodo was launched in May 2013. |
Funders
Fonds national pour la science ouverte – French National Fund for Open Science
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The nepHAL+ project has been selected in the third call for proposals for open scientific publishing and editing. |
European Union
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Episciences has received funding from the European Union’s under grant agreement OpenAIRE Nexus – OpenAIRE-Nexus Scholarly Communication Services for EOSC users “OpenAIRE Nexus – OpenAIRE-Nexus Scholarly Communication Services for EOSC users”). |

















