Diamond open access overlay journals

Episciences is a web platform that allows researchers to easily publish and promote their early work (preprints), to Open Access overlay journals. Authors get early feedback, while earning credibility and attribution with no costs.

  • For
    Researchers | Research Groups | Research Organisations
  • TRL
    9 - actual system proven in operational environment
  • Access Type
    Remote
  • Access Mode
    Free
  • Owned by
    Center for direct scientific communication
  • Provided by
    Center for direct scientific communication
  • Funded by
    The framework programme for research and innovation (H2020)
  • Terms of use

Episciences is an overlay journal platform that allows researchers to early share openly their research work as a preprint, communicate with the research community their ideas and discoveries, get feedback and claim ownership. The journals hosted by the Episciences platform are diamond open access journals, they adhere to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). Researchers save time, money, and effort, and can focus only on their research. The preprints are hosted by open repositories such as arXiv, HAL, Zenodo, bioRxiv, medRxiv and are broadly available to the research community.


Benefits

Promotes researchers’ impact, credibility and attribution
Allows publications to be referenced early in any dispute on first discovery and get early attention
Maintains ownership to authors
Authors retain all their rights
Early feedback
Receive community suggestions, improvements, critical flaws or errors at an early stage
Broader visibility
The paper is available on the journal and Open Access repository
Enables instant discovery of information
Provides direct open and easy access to preprints and journals
Saves time and eliminates costs barriers
Free and easy process from submission to publication

Features

Seamless integrations

Uses DOI, provides rich metadata, is indexed by OpenAIRE and other databases such as DOAJ, Google Scholar, zbMATH Open, Semantic Scholar, etc.

User friendly

Easy web interface and onboarding

Workflow management

Guides article submissions, reviewer assignments, document workflows

Standards and FAIR compliance

Is compatible with HAL, arXiV, Zenodo, bioRxiv, medRxiv, Dataverse and supports many formats

Configurations

Offers annotations for editorial board and notifications

Access management

Supports researcher’s and reviewer's management

Used in

  • Logical Methods in Computer Science
    Logical Methods in Computer Science
    Logical Methods in Computer Science is a fully refereed, open access, free, electronic journal. It welcomes papers on theoretical and practical areas in computer science involving logical methods.
  • JTCAM Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics
    JTCAM Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics
    The JTCAM is an international peer-reviewed overlay journal aiming at publishing innovative research in the field of solid mechanics. Committed to the fundamental principles of Open Sciences, the JTCAM is one of the first Diamond Open Access journals for the mechanics community.
  • Epiga : Epijournal de Géométrie Algébrique
    Epiga : Epijournal de Géométrie Algébrique
    The Épijournal de Géométrie Algébrique is a peer-reviewed mathematical journal founded in 2015. The scope of the journal covers algebraic geometry in a broad sense, including complex or arithmetic geometry, algebraic groups and representation theory.
  • TheoretiCS
    TheoretiCS
    TheoretiCS is a Diamond Open Access electronic journal covering all areas of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). Access to all papers is free. Authors are not required to pay any publication fees or article processing charges, and retain copyright. TheoretiCS strives for top quality scholarship in Theoretical Computer Science, broadly construed. It publishes original research, explicitly including suitably revised and extended versions of conference papers. To be accepted, a paper must make a significant contribution of lasting value to a relevant area of TCS, and its presentation must be of high quality.
  • Compositionality
    Compositionality
    Compositionality describes and quantifies how complex things can be assembled out of simpler parts. Compositionality, the journal, is an open-access, arXiv-overlay journal for research using compositional ideas, most notably of a category-theoretic origin, in any discipline. Topics may concern foundational structures, an organizing principle, or a powerful tool. Example areas include but are not limited to: mathematics, computation, logic, physics, chemistry, engineering, linguistics, and cognition. Compositionality is free of cost for both readers and authors.
  • Transformations: A DARIAH Journal
    Transformations: A DARIAH Journal
    Transformations: A DARIAH Journal is a multilingual journal created in 2024 by the European research infrastructure DARIAH ERIC. This journal is an ongoing publication with thematic issues in Digital Humanities, humanities, social sciences, and the arts. The journal is particularly interested in the use of digital tools, methods, and resources in a reproducible approach. It welcomes scientific contributions on collections of data, workflows and software analysis.
  • Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
    Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
    DMTCS is a high standard peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to publication of innovative research which covers the fields of Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science and puts a certain emphasis on the intersection of these two fields. DMTCS exists since 1997.

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Use Cases

  • Logical Methods in Computer Science
    Logical Methods in Computer Science
    Logical Methods in Computer Science is a fully refereed, open access, free, electronic journal. It welcomes papers on theoretical and practical areas in computer science involving logical methods.
  • JTCAM Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics
    JTCAM Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics
    The JTCAM is an international peer-reviewed overlay journal aiming at publishing innovative research in the field of solid mechanics. Committed to the fundamental principles of Open Sciences, the JTCAM is one of the first Diamond Open Access journals for the mechanics community.
  • Epiga : Epijournal de Géométrie Algébrique
    Epiga : Epijournal de Géométrie Algébrique
    The Épijournal de Géométrie Algébrique is a peer-reviewed mathematical journal founded in 2015. The scope of the journal covers algebraic geometry in a broad sense, including complex or arithmetic geometry, algebraic groups and representation theory.
  • TheoretiCS
    TheoretiCS
    TheoretiCS is a Diamond Open Access electronic journal covering all areas of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). Access to all papers is free. Authors are not required to pay any publication fees or article processing charges, and retain copyright. TheoretiCS strives for top quality scholarship in Theoretical Computer Science, broadly construed. It publishes original research, explicitly including suitably revised and extended versions of conference papers. To be accepted, a paper must make a significant contribution of lasting value to a relevant area of TCS, and its presentation must be of high quality.
  • Compositionality
    Compositionality
    Compositionality describes and quantifies how complex things can be assembled out of simpler parts. Compositionality, the journal, is an open-access, arXiv-overlay journal for research using compositional ideas, most notably of a category-theoretic origin, in any discipline. Topics may concern foundational structures, an organizing principle, or a powerful tool. Example areas include but are not limited to: mathematics, computation, logic, physics, chemistry, engineering, linguistics, and cognition. Compositionality is free of cost for both readers and authors.
  • Transformations: A DARIAH Journal
    Transformations: A DARIAH Journal
    Transformations: A DARIAH Journal is a multilingual journal created in 2024 by the European research infrastructure DARIAH ERIC. This journal is an ongoing publication with thematic issues in Digital Humanities, humanities, social sciences, and the arts. The journal is particularly interested in the use of digital tools, methods, and resources in a reproducible approach. It welcomes scientific contributions on collections of data, workflows and software analysis.
  • Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
    Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
    DMTCS is a high standard peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to publication of innovative research which covers the fields of Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science and puts a certain emphasis on the intersection of these two fields. DMTCS exists since 1997.
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