Episciences
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Type of site | Publication platform |
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| Available in | English, French |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 2013 |
| Current status | Online |
| Written in | PHP |
Episciences is an open-access academic publishing platform that covers all disciplines. It was established in 2013 by the Centre pour la communication scientifique directe (CCSD) in France and also functions as a technical infrastructure for peer review. The system is developed open source under the GPLv3 licence and available on GitHub.[1]
The platform is specifically designed from the ground up for publishing overlay journals—open-access electronic journals whose content is drawn from articles deposited in open repositories such as HAL (open archive), arXiv, and zenodo. Since 2023, Episciences also supports submissions from the BioRxiv and MedRxiv preprint servers. It also provides interoperability with the Software Heritage archive[2] and with research data repositories managed through dataverse. Since 2026, the system supports the Cryptology ePrint Archive.[3]
Authors submit articles for selection in journals directly from these open repositories. Once an article is accepted for publication in a journal using the Episciences platform, the corresponding record in the source repository is updated with publication details.[4]
As of 2024[update], Episciences hosts more than 37 journals and has published over 6,800 articles[5] and by the end of 2025 the platform had 45 journals and over 7500 articles published.[6] Journals have both launched directly on the platform, while some existing ones moved to the platform. The platform supports journals from a range of disciplines, including biomechanics, earth sciences, environment, health sciences, informatics and applied mathematics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, physics, proceedings, and social sciences and humanities.
List of journals
[edit]As of 2026[update] there are 46 current or planned journals publishing using the Epsiciences platform.[7]
| Full Name | Publisher | Year Created | Year on Episciences |
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| Annals of Formalized Mathematics | MathOA | 2024 | 2024 |
| Network analysis for social sciences | UMR8504 Géographie-cités | 2016 | 2017 |
| Revue africaine de recherche en informatique et mathématiques appliquées | African Society in Digital Science | 2002 | 2016 |
| Archéologies. Sociétés, réseaux, matériaux | Université Lumière Lyon 2 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Communications in Mathematics | University of Ostrava | 2009 | 2021 |
| Compositionality | Compositionality Charitable Incorporated Organisation | 2017 | 2024 |
| Les Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport | AFITL | 1979 | 2022 |
| The SSH Data Journal | Université de Lorraine | 2024 | 2025 |
| Revue en didactique des langues et des cultures | Université Sorbonne Nouvelle | 2025 | 2025 |
| Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science | Association DMTCS | 1997 | 2016 |
| Environnement, Ingénierie & Développement | INSA de Lyon | 1996 | 2021 |
| Electronic Publishing | 2018 | ||
| Electronic Notes in Theoretical Informatics and Computer Science | Inria | 2022 | 2023 |
| Épijournal de Didactique et Epistémologie des Mathématiques pour l'Enseignement Supérieur | 2019 | 2019 | |
| Épijournal de Géométrie Algébrique | Association Épiga | 2016 | 2016 |
| Fundamenta Informaticae | Polish Mathematical Society | 1977 | 2020 |
| Hardy-Ramanujan Journal | Hardy-Ramanujan Society | 1978 | 2014 |
| Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities | Inria | 2014 | 2014 |
| Eran, Turan, Hrom: a Journal of Global Late Antiquity | Eran Turan And Hrom: Association for Global Late Antiquity | 2026 | 2026 |
| Journal of Functional Programming | MathOA | 1991 | 2026 |
| Journal Francophone de Tribologie | Association Française de Mécanique | 2026 | 2026 |
| journal of Groups, Complexity, Cryptology | 2009 | 2020 | |
| Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science | Éditions universitaires d'Avignon | 2016 | 2016 |
| Journal d'Interaction Personne-Système | Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine (AFIHM) | 2008 | 2014 |
| Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization | 2019 | 2019 | |
| Journal of Data- and Knowledge-integrated Simulation Science | Stuttgart Center of Simulation Science (SC SimTech) | 2024 | |
| Journal of Non-Associative Structures | MathOA | 2025 | 2026 |
| Journal of Philosophical Economics | Editura ASE | 2007 | 2021 |
| Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modelling and Computation | SAT Association | 2006 | 2025 |
| Journal of Studies of Earth's Deep Interior | ENS Éditions | 2025 | 2025 |
| Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics | Inria | 2021 | 2021 |
| Logical Methods in Computer Science | Logical Methods in Computer Science e.V. | 2004 | 2015 |
| Multidisciplinary Biomechanics Journal | Société de Biomécanique | 2024 | 2024 |
| Mathematical Neuroscience and Applications | Inria | 2021 | 2021 |
| Management et organisations du sport | Société Savante de Management du Sport (S2MS) | 2020 | 2020 |
| Movement & Sport Sciences - Science & Motricité | French Association of Sport and Physical Activity Sciences (ACAPS) | 1987 | |
| Open Communications in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics | International Society of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics | 2020 | 2021 |
| Open Plasma Science | Université de Lorraine | 2023 | 2023 |
| Le partenariat de soin avec le patient : analyses | Université Côte d'Azur | 2020 | 2024 |
| Revue africaine de santé et de productions animales | École inter-États des sciences et médecine vétérinaires | 2004 | 2024 |
| Recherches en didactique des mathématiques | Association pour la Recherche en Didactique des Mathématiques (ARDM) | 1980 | 2023 |
| Slovo | Presses de l'Inalco | 1978 | 2017 |
| Sociétés plurielles | Presses de l'Inalco | 2017 | 2017 |
| TheoretiCS | TheoretiCS Foundation e.V. | 2021 | 2021 |
| Theory of Computing | Theoretical Computer Science Exchange | 2004 | |
| Transformations: A DARIAH Journal | DARIAH ERIC | 2024 | 2024 |
References
[edit]- ↑ Marmol, Bruno; Zhao, Claire; Chibane, Djamel; Charles, Julien; Loiseau, Kevin; Capelli, Laurent; Comparet, Loic; Barborini, Yannick; Tournoy, Raphaël (2026-04-23), Episciences, retrieved 2026-05-02
- ↑ "Episciences links article code through Software Heritage". Software Heritage. 21 August 2025. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
- ↑ CCSDForge. "episciences/CHANGELOG.md at main · CCSDForge/episciences (v1.0.54 - 2026-04-09)". GitHub. Retrieved 2026-05-02.
- ↑ Berthaud Christine; Capelli Laurent; Gustedt Jens; Kirchner Claude; Loiseau Kevin; Magron Agnès; Medves Maud; Monteil Alain; Riverieux GaËlle; Romary Laurent (2014). "Episciences: an overlay publication platform". Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation. IOS Press. doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-409-1-78.
- ↑ 2024 Activity Report, p.21-23 https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/RA2024_EN.pdf
- ↑ CCSD Rapport d’activité 2025 https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RA2025_FR_VF.pdf (in French)
- ↑ "Journals". Episciences. Retrieved 2026-05-02.