Episciences: a publishing platform for Open Archive Overlay Journals

摘要

While ever-increasing prices of scholarly publications have raised concerns for a long time, a growing number of interesting evolutions have taken place in the scientific community, especially in mathematics: a universally accepted document format (TeX/LaTeX), a widely adopted electronic open archive with worldwide coverage (arXiv) and more recent attempts to create open access journals and open discussion forums. In the context of commercial publishers seemingly unlikely to propose affordable and sufficiently open solutions for scientific publications, the mathematical community seems ready to adopt new publishing models and get actively involved in the related developments. Since creating open access electronic platforms has become technically easy, the obstacles are more historical and sociological than anything else. What is needed is a convenient framework that gives our community the tools to assess, correct, certify, archive and make widely available their production.