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EPISCIENCES – An overlay publication platform

Issue title: APE 2014 and ELPUB 2014

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Berthaud, Christinea | Capelli, Laurenta | Gustedt, Jensb; c | Kirchner, Claudeb | Loiseau, Kevina | Magron, Agnèsa | Medves, Maudb; d | Monteil, Alainb | Rivrieux, Gaëlleb | Romary, Laurentb; d; *

Affiliations: [a] Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD), CNRS–UPS2275, Paris, France | [b] Inria, France | [c] ICube, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France | [d] Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: Overlay journal, editorial platform, scholarly communication, repositories, Open Access

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-140749

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 34, no. 3-4, pp. 269-277, 2014

Published: 18 December 2014
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Abstract

This paper delineates the main characteristics of the Episciences platform, an environment for overlay peer-reviewing that complements existing publication repositories, designed by the Centre pour la Communication Scientifique directe (CCSD) service unit. We describe the main characteristics of the platform and present the first experiment of launching two journals in the computer science domain onto it. Finally, we address a series of open questions related to the actual changes in editorial models (open submission, open peer-review, augmented publication) that such a platform is likely to raise, as well as some hints as to the underlying business model.

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