The University of Lorraine has chosen, since 2018, to financially support initiatives promoting the open dissemination of scientific publications. This support is made possible by redirecting part of the credits previously dedicated to subscriptions to commercial scientific journal packages.
In recent years, this support has been extended to Open Science infrastructures (DOAJ, EOSC, Open Citations, ORCID) and to the networks that promote them (COAR, RDA, Sparc Europe).
In 2024, support from the Université de Lorraine will amount to 134,000€, or 7% of the budget for online resources (including the Elsevier national licence).
For initiatives related to scientific publishing, the selection criteria are as follows:
- Open access to all scientific content and metadata (no moving barriers, no so-called hybrid journals);
- No payment by authors (refusal of APCs);
- Governance centered on scientific communities;
- Importance in the national and international scientific communication ecosystem;
- Link with the University of Lorraine (publishing authors, usage…).
Much of this support is channelled through Couperin as part of SCOSS.
Supported initiatives
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 €
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€
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 €
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 €
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 €
Research Data Alliance
An international network for reflection and work on all issues relating to research data.
- Location: International
- UL support : 1 160 €
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 €
Support to the Lorraine site Diamond journals
As from 2024, the Université de Lorraine will also support diamond journals on the Lorraine site via annual funding or participation in calls for projects from the NFOS.
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.
- UL support: 5 400 €, winner of the National Fund for Open Science’s call for projects 3
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.
- UL support: 3 500 €, winner of the National Fund for Open Science 2 call for projects
Open Plasma Science
Epi-revue on plasma physics, supported by UL’s Institut Jean Lamour (IJL). Created in 2024, it is distributed on Episciences.
- UL support: 5 000 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program
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.
- UL support: 6 500 €, winner of the National Fund for Open Science’s call for projects 1 and of the UL diamond journal funding program
Pratiques
Journal published by UL’s Centre de recherche sur les médiations (CREM) since 1974, this journal of linguistics, literature and didactics is available on OpenEdition and Persée.
- UL support: 2 500 €, 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.
- UL support: 1 500 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program
Projectique
Journal of the European Society of Projectics supported by the IAE Metz School of Management. It promotes reflections on the complexity of action in organisations in English, Spanish and French. It is published on the Cairn platform.
- UL support: 2 500 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program
Questions de communication
Journal supported by the Centre de recherche sur les médiations (CREM) at UL and the Institut national des sciences humaines et sociales of the CNRS. It is published in hard copy by Éditions de l’Université de Lorraine and online by OpenEdition and Cairn.
- UL support: 5 000 €, winner of the National Fund for Open Science’s call for projects 2
Revue des Plateformes Numériques
Multidisciplinary journal on digital platforms. Supported by UL’s Institut François Gény (IFG), it is currently being created on the Open U Journals platform.
- UL support: 5400 €, winner of the National Fund for Open Science’s call for projects 3
ThéoRèmes
Journal at the crossroads of the sciences of religion, philosophy of religion and epistemology, ThéoRèmes is published on OpenEdition. It is supported by the Association de la revue ThéoRèmes.
- UL support: 2 500 €, winner of the UL diamond journal funding program