The Université de Lorraine provides substantial financial support for initiatives promoting open science through two complementary mechanisms: a fund to support open science platforms and infrastructures, and a scheme to support Diamant journals (at no cost to either readers or authors).
The total amount for 2024 is 134,000 €, or 7% of the university’s budget for subscriptions to scientific documentary resources (journals, databases).
The development of this support fund was made possible by the reallocation of funds freed up by UL’s withdrawal from the Wiley journal package, and by financial support from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research as part of the University’s COMP.
Support for open science infrastructures and platforms - 2025
Since 2018, the Université de Lorraine has chosen to financially support a number of international and national initiatives that play a critical role in opening up science. These include infrastructures, platforms (particularly platforms for disseminating open scientific journals) and networks.
The selection criteria are as follows:
- Governance centered on scientific communities;
- Importance in the ecosystem of national and international open-access scientific communication;
- Link with the Université de Lorraine (publishing authors, usage…);
- Open-access dissemination of all scientific content, data or metadata (absence of mobile barriers, refusal of so-called hybrid journals);
- Absence of payment by authors (refusal of APCs).
Several of these supports are channeled through the Couperin consortium and are part of the SCOSS international initiative.
AJOL
African Journals Online is a a platform for quality scientific journals published in Africa, one of the aims of which is to raise the profile of African research.
- Location: Africa
- UL support: 3 000 €
arXiv
First open archive launched in 1991 and still massively used by the mathematical and physical science communities.
- Location: United States, International
- UL support: 3 000 €
CENTRE MERSENNE
Diamant open-access scientific publishing platform developed by Mathdoc, a support and research unit of CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes. It hosts the Compte-rendus de l’Académie des Sciences since these journals left the Elsevier publishing house.
- Location: France, International
- UL support: 3 000 €
COAR
International network promoting the open dissemination of scientific publications through open digital archives.
- Location: International
- UL support: 750 €
DOAB
The main database for referencing scientific books published in open access.
- Location: The Netherlands, France, International
- UL support: 1 500 €
DOAJ
The main database for referencing scientific journals published in open access.
- Location: Great Britain, International
- UL support: 3 000 €
EDP Sciences
Scientific publishing company committed to the transition of several of its journals to open access.
- Location: France, International
- UL support: 5 000 €
EOSC
European network aiming at linking the main open digital infrastructures of research.
- Location: Europe
- UL support: 2 000 €
EPISCIENCES
Episciences is a comprehensive platform for editing and publishing scientific journals covering all disciplines, developed by the Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD).
- Location: France, International
- UL support: 2 000 including 500 € from IECL
Erudit
Platform of scientific journals from Canadian universities. It hosts around 250 scholarly journals, 160 of which are open access.
- Location: Canada, International
- UL support: 3 500€
EUROPEAN DIAMOND CAPACITY HUB
Resource center whose aim is to support and strengthen Diamond open-access publishing in Europe by pooling resources, tools and services (including training).
- Location: Europe
- UL support: 1 500 €
HAL
National repository for the diffusion of scientific publications. The UL has chosen HAL for its institutional archive. The amount of the support corresponds to the annual contribution to the infrastructure.
- Location: France
- UL support: 18 000 €
MAKE DATA COUNT
Infrastructure whose aim is to propose standards for indicators concerning research data and thus facilitate the measurement of the use of these data.
- Location: International
- UL support: 1 500 €
MÉtopes
Research infrastructure providing publishing houses and scientific journals with a set of tools and methods for structuring documents and distributing open-access digital or printed editorial products.
- Location: France
- UL support: 1 500 €
MIR@BEL
Platform for referencing and providing information on journals.
- Location: France
- UL support: 1 500 €
OPENALEX
Open bibliographic and bibliometric database.
- Location: Etats-Unis, International
- UL support: 10 000 €
Open Citations
Initiative for the open access dissemination of citation links between scientific publications and abstracts.
- Location: Italy, International
- UL support: 3 000 €
OpenEdition
France’s leading platform for over 500 open access scientific journals in the social sciences and humanities.
- Location: France, International
- UL support: 7 000 €
Open Library of Humanities
UK platform for open access journals in the field of social sciences and humanities.
- Location: Great Britain, International
- UL support: 3 000 €
OPERAS
Research infrastructure designed to support open scientific publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe by federating resources.
- Location: Europe
- UL support: 5 000 €
ORCID
Managing authority of the main researcher identifier used in the research world.
- Location: International
- UL support: 3 755 €
Peer Community In (PCI)
Open peer-review platform for qualitative evaluation of pre-publications
- Location: France, International
- UL support: 3 000 €
PKP
Initiative offering software for the open access publication of journals (OJS used by Open U Journals) and books (OMP used by EdUL).
- Location: Canada, International
- UL support: 4 000 €
REDALYC
Latin American platform for open access scientific journals. A historic member of the open access movement, promoting science as a common good.
- Location: South America, Spain, International
- UL support: 3 000 €
Repères
A network of open-access journal incubators and platforms, whose aim is to share best practices, skills, training, etc. for publishing and distributing Diamond open-access journals.
- Location: France
- UL support: 1 500 €
Research Data Alliance
An international network for reflection and work on all issues relating to research data.
- Location: International
- UL support: 1 160 €
Retraction Watch
An association that analyses retractions of scientific articles and works to promote scientific integrity.
- Location: United States, International
- UL support: 3 100 $
ROR
International register of permanent and open identifiers for research organisations.
- Location: United States, International
- UL support: 3 000 €
Sci-Post
Platform of open scientific journals in physics, chemistry, astronomy and political science.
- Location: The Netherlands, International
- UL support: 3 000 €
Software Heritage
Worldwide archive of software in source code form.
- Location: France, International
- UL support: 10 000 €
Sparc Europe
Organization promoting Open Science to all research actors and to the European decision-making bodies.
- Location: Europe
- UL support: 640 €
Wikimedia France
Association promoting the free sharing of knowledge in France (particularly around the Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata projects).
- Location: France, International
- UL support: 3 000 €
Support to the Lorraine site Diamond journals - 2025
The Université de Lorraine has been supporting diamond journals since 2020 as part of NFOS calls for projects. In 2024, it set up a fund to support diamond journals on the Lorraine site. In 2025, it will extend its support to diamond journals in which researchers from the site publish, as well as to prize-winning journals from the three-year KOALA funding program coordinated by the German National Library of Science and Technology.
Annales de l’Est
History journal published by the Association des Historiens de l’Est. It is applying to the Open U Journals platform to make the transition to digital distribution. Back issues will be published on Persée.
- Language: French
- UL support: 5 400 €, winner of the National Fund for Open Science’s call for projects 3
Culture & musées
The journal publishes research on cultural audiences, institutions and mediation in the field of museums and heritage. It is co-published by Éditions Universitaires d’Avignon and UGA Éditions, and distributed via OpenEdition.
- Language: French
- UL support: 2 000 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program
Condensed Matter Physics
Founded in 1993 by the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, it publishes on statistical mechanics, thermodynamics of equilibrium and non-equilibrium processes, and relativistic mechanics of interacting particle systems.
- Language: English
- UL support: 2 000 €, support for diamond journals favored by authors on the Lorraine site
Data & Corpus
The journal was created in 2024 on Episciences to enable the publication and enhancement of human and social science data through the publication of data articles. It is published by the Université de Lorraine with the support of MSH Lorraine.
- Language: French
- UL support: 2 000 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program
Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis
The journal covers significant developments in numerical analysis and scientific computing. It is published by the Kent State University Library and Mathematics Institute.
- Language: English
- UL support: 900 €, KOALA program, Leibniz University
EPIGA
Epi-algebraic geometry journal supported by UL’s mathematics laboratory (IECL) and Grenoble’s Institut Fourier. This journal of a new kind has been distributed in open access since its creation in 2017 on the Episciences platform.
- Language: English
- UL support: 3 500 €, winner of the National Fund for Open Science 2 call for projects
Journal de l’École Polytechnique
The journal has been publishing articles in applied and fundamental mathematics since 1795. It is published by the École polytechnique and distributed via the Centre Mersenne platform. The archives can be consulted on Gallica.
- Language: French, English
- UL support: 900 €, KOALA program, Leibniz University
Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS)
The journal has been published in digital and printed form since 1995. It covers all areas of computer science research and publishes around 60 articles a year in English. It is supported by the University of Graz.
- Language: English
- UL support: 900 €, KOALA program, Leibniz University
Philosophia Scientiae
Journal of the Archives Henri Poincaré (AHP) of the UL, which publishes on epistemology, history, philosophy of science and analytic philosophy. It is published online on OpenEdition, Cairn and Numdam (archives) as well as in hard copy.
- Language: French, English, German
- UL support: 2 800 €, winner of the National Fund for Open Science’s call for projects 1 and of the UL diamond journal funding program
Pratiques
Published by UL’s Centre de recherche sur les médiations (CREM) since 1974. This biannual journal of linguistics, literature and didactics is available on OpenEdition and Persée.
- Language: French, English
- UL support: 2 000 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program
PRISMI
Journal supported by Italianists at the Université de Lorraine. It publishes in 3 languages (French, Italian, English) on the literature, history and interactions of the Italian world with other cultures. It works with the publisher Les Chemins de tr@verse and is distributed on OpenEdition.
- Language: French, English, Italian
- UL support: 1 500 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program
Revue forestière française
It publishes in French on temperate forests, natural environments, wood, fauna and flora. It has been published by AgroParisTech since 1949, in hard copy and electronically on Open U Bordeaux. Articles published before 2014 can be consulted on HAL.
- Language: French
- UL support: 2 000 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program
Revue des Plateformes Numériques
Multidisciplinary journal on digital platforms (financial, real estate, health, employment, etc.). Supported by the Institut François Gény (IFG), a UL law laboratory, it is distributed on the Open U Bordeaux platform.
- Language: French, English
- UL support: 2 000 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program
Studia Linguistica Romanica
The journal publishes two to three issues a year in three languages (French, Spanish and Italian), covering all themes, fields, problems and approaches in Romance linguistics. It is supported by the University of Graz.
- Language: French, Spanish, Italian
- UL support : 2 000 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program
ThéoRèmes
A journal at the crossroads of the sciences of religion, philosophy of religion and epistemology. It is supported by MSH Lorraine and distributed on the OpenEdition platform. It is supported by the Association de la revue ThéoRèmes.
- Language: French, English
- UL support: 2 000 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program
Transposition, musique et sciences sociales
Co-published by EHESS and the Cité de la musique-Philarmonie de Paris, the journal is available on OpenEdition. It studies the importance of music and musical practices in the organization of societies.
- Language: French, English
- UL support: 2 000 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program
Verbum
Since 1978, the journal has published thematic issues on French linguistics, as well as on the history and epistemology of the discipline. It is supported by the ATILF laboratory and Éditions de l’Université de Lorraine.
- Language: French, English
- UL support: 1 000 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program