[GOAL] Re: Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum

[BAUIN Serge]

You might be interested in discovering an « overlay journals platform » called episciences<http://episciences.org/> developed by the CCSD (CNRS/INRIA/Université de Lyon) which now hosts 5 journals, soon 6 etc. Momentum, indeed.
It is piggybacking on both arXiv and HAL<https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/>, but I presume it can piggyback other repositories.
And if you are planning to launch a new journal or to transform an existing one, you should consider this resource as a viable option.

All the best for the new year
Serge Bauin
Université Sorbonne Paris Cité<http://www.sorbonne-paris-cite.fr/fr> and CNRS<http://www.cnrs.fr/dist/>

PS. There is an English language version (look top right). When I visit the site, the default seems to be French, but maybe is this based on IP address…

Le 05/01/2016 15:32, « Heather Morrison » <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca<mailto:Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>> a écrit :

Elizabeth Gibney’s article in Nature with this title may be of interest to list readers:
http://www.nature.com/news/open-journals-that-piggyback-on-arxiv-gather-momentum-1.19102?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

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University of Ottawa
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