Episciences is an open infrastructure supported by SCOSS (6th funding cycle)
| The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) is a network of influential organisations committed to helping secure Open Access (OA) and Open Science (OS) infrastructure well into the future. |
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The SCOSS Board considers Episciences to be a mature model for overlay journals, leveraging repository infrastructures to enhance scholarly accessibility.
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Why support Episciences?
By supporting Episciences, you are strengthening a publishing platform that is both academic-led and academic-owned. Your contribution helps support new journals and advance publishing tools built on open repositories and infrastructures.
The Episciences program
- improve the publishing platform and the services offered to the scientific communities,
- welcome new journals and broaden thematic coverage by opening up to new disciplines,
- improve production tools, for example by offering new publication formats,
- support new repositories,
- create a network of ambassadors to promote the overlay model and the platform.
Our commitments for sponsors
- name of the organization on the Episciences website,
- subscription to a mailing list,
- invitation to webinars on Episciences.
Donation levels
SCOSS funding target: 397 250 €
| Organisation size | Annual contribution level |
| Large organisations from high-income countries |
4 000 € annually for 3 years |
| Small organisations from high-income countries |
2 000 € annually for 3 years |
| Funders |
8 000 € annually for 3 years |
| Organisations from low and middle income countries and others with lower incomes |
500 € annually for 3 years |
A 25% discount will be deducted from consortia that provide pledges from ten or more pledging institutions.
Organisations wishing to support Episciences should contact us at membership[at]episciences.org.