EDP Sciences (Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences) is an STM publisher that specialises scientific information for specialist and more general audiences (general public, decision-makers, teachers, etc.). EDP produces and publishes international journals, books, conferences, and websites with predominantly scientific and technical content. The company is a joint venture of four French learned societies in science, mathematics, and medicine.

History

The company was founded in 1920 under the name La Société du ''Journal de Physique'' et ''Le Radium''. It thus took over the publication of the ''Journal de Physique'' (established in 1872) on the occasion of its merger with the journal ''Le Radium'' (established in 1904). Among the founders were the

Société Française de Physique The Société Française de Physique (SFP), or the French Physical Society, is the main professional society of French physicists. It was founded in 1873 by Charles Joseph d'Almeida. History The French Physical Society is a state-approved non-p ...

and several notable scientists and industrialists: Antoine Béclère,

Louis de Broglie Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (, also , or ; 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French physicist and aristocrat who made groundbreaking contributions to Old quantum theory, quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis, he pos ...

Marie Curie Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( , , ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first ...

Paul Langevin Paul Langevin (; ; 23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the ''Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes'', an an ...

, Louis Lumière, Jean Perrin, and

Léon Brillouin Léon Nicolas Brillouin (; August 7, 1889 – October 4, 1969) was a French physicist. He made contributions to quantum mechanics, radio wave propagation in the atmosphere, solid state physics, and information theory. Early life Brillouin ...

, as well as patrons such as

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. The company continued to publish the different sections of the ''Journal de Physique'' until the 1980s, at which point its journal publishing expanded into other areas of physics, particularly astrophysics. The company also began publishing books. In 1997, the publisher broadened further to reach other scientific markets, and changed its name to Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences (more commonly shortened to EDP Sciences, including in the company's own marketing materials). EDP Sciences today publishes almost 50 international paper and electronic journals and magazines, as well as about a hundred websites and a variety of annual and monograph books. The publisher is jointly owned by four

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: the

, the Société Chimique de France, the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles, and the Société Française d'Optique. EDP maintains partnerships with other European publishers, including

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and

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. The company claims to be considered the first independent French publisher of international academic journals. The company has become a publishing group of several entities: * EDP Sciences proper, the publishing branch for scientific material * EDP Santé, the medical branch of the company * EDP Open, the platform for open-access journals

Publications

Across its divisions, EDP Science publishes in the following subject areas: chemistry; general knowledge; mathematics and computer science; health sciences and dentistry; physics, astronomy, and astrophysics; engineering and technology; social sciences and humanities; life sciences. The company publishes more than 50 scientific journals, both paper and electronic, and also a number of professional magazines (mostly French-language) in the physics domain (''Photoniques'', ''Europhysics News'', and others) and in health sciences (''Audio Infos'', ''Basse Vision Infos'', ''L'Entreprise officinale'', ''Orthophile'', ''Indépendentaire'', etc.). EDP Science manages the annual publishing of several undergraduate teaching texts, other professional books, and popular-science books, and also publishes monographs at masters-degree level and higher.

Open access

EDP Sciences supports the development of

open-access journal Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or Gratis v ...

s. Part of its catalogue of journals is already in total (gold) or partial (green) open access, and it is rated a "green publisher" by the SHERPA/RoMEO site. EDP is also a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), a trade association of OA publishers in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines.

Web of Conferences

Web of Conferences is an online portal entirely dedicated to scientific conferences. It offers an international meetings calendar and a space collecting all the conference proceedings published by EDP Sciences. It also provides a proceedings-publishing service.

References

External links

EDP Sciences website

Scientific e-library

Dentistry e-library

Dentistry and management e-library

Portal dedicated to scientific conferences
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