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.
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 and with research data repositories managed through dataverse. Since 2026, the system supports the Cryptology ePrint Archive.
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.
, Episciences hosts more than 37 journals and has published over 6,800 articles2024 Activity Report, p.21-23 https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/RA2024_EN.pdf and by the end of 2025 the platform had 45 journals and over 7500 articles published.CCSD Rapport d’activité 2025 https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RA2025_FR_VF.pdf (in French) 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 there are 46 current or planned journals publishing using the Epsiciences platform. Full NamePublisherYear CreatedYear on EpisciencesAnnals of Formalized MathematicsMathOA20242024Network analysis for social sciencesUMR8504 Géographie-cités20162017Revue africaine de recherche en informatique et mathématiques appliquéesAfrican Society in Digital Science20022016Archéologies. Sociétés, réseaux, matériauxUniversité Lumière Lyon 220232023Communications in MathematicsUniversity of Ostrava20092021CompositionalityCompositionality Charitable Incorporated Organisation20172024Les Cahiers Scientifiques du TransportAFITL19792022The SSH Data JournalUniversité de Lorraine20242025Revue en didactique des langues et des culturesUniversité Sorbonne Nouvelle20252025Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer ScienceAssociation DMTCS19972016Environnement, Ingénierie & DéveloppementINSA de Lyon19962021Electronic Publishing2018Electronic Notes in Theoretical Informatics and Computer ScienceInria20222023Épijournal de Didactique et Epistémologie des Mathématiques pour l'Enseignement Supérieur20192019Épijournal de Géométrie AlgébriqueAssociation Épiga20162016Fundamenta InformaticaePolish Mathematical Society19772020Hardy-Ramanujan JournalHardy-Ramanujan Society19782014Journal of Data Mining and Digital HumanitiesInria20142014Eran, Turan, Hrom: a Journal of Global Late AntiquityEran Turan And Hrom: Association for Global Late Antiquity20262026Journal of Functional ProgrammingMathOA19912026Journal Francophone de TribologieAssociation Française de Mécanique20262026journal of Groups, Complexity, Cryptology20092020Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in ScienceÉditions universitaires d'Avignon20162016Journal d'Interaction Personne-SystèmeAssociation Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine (AFIHM)20082014Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization20192019Journal of Data- and Knowledge-integrated Simulation ScienceStuttgart Center of Simulation Science (SC SimTech)2024Journal of Non-Associative StructuresMathOA20252026Journal of Philosophical EconomicsEditura ASE20072021Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modelling and ComputationSAT Association20062025Journal of Studies of Earth's Deep InteriorENS Éditions20252025Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied MechanicsInria20212021Logical Methods in Computer ScienceLogical Methods in Computer Science e.V.20042015Multidisciplinary Biomechanics JournalSociété de Biomécanique20242024Mathematical Neuroscience and ApplicationsInria20212021Management et organisations du sportSociété Savante de Management du Sport (S2MS)20202020Movement & Sport Sciences - Science & MotricitéFrench Association of Sport and Physical Activity Sciences (ACAPS)1987Open Communications in Nonlinear Mathematical PhysicsInternational Society of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics20202021Open Plasma ScienceUniversité de Lorraine20232023Le partenariat de soin avec le patient : analysesUniversité Côte d'Azur20202024Revue africaine de santé et de productions animalesÉcole inter-États des sciences et médecine vétérinaires20042024Recherches en didactique des mathématiquesAssociation pour la Recherche en Didactique des Mathématiques (ARDM)19802023SlovoPresses de l'Inalco19782017Sociétés pluriellesPresses de l'Inalco20172017TheoretiCSTheoretiCS Foundation e.V.20212021Theory of ComputingTheoretical Computer Science Exchange2004Transformations: A DARIAH JournalDARIAH ERIC20242024
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