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| OpenEdition | |
|---|---|
| Name | OpenEdition |
| Type | Academic publishing platform |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Marseille, France |
| Language | Multilingual |
OpenEdition OpenEdition is a French-based digital platform dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly publications in the humanities and social sciences. It aggregates journals, books, blogs, and event listings and provides tools for publishing, discovery, and archiving. The platform engages with international research communities and cultural institutions to support open access and digital scholarship.
OpenEdition integrates services for journals, books, academic blogs, and event notices used by scholars associated with institutions such as Collège de France, Sorbonne University, École Normale Supérieure (Paris), Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Its infrastructure interacts with repositories and initiatives including HAL (open archive), DOAJ, CrossRef, ORCID, and HAL-IRD. The platform is relevant to researchers working on topics related to European Union policy, French Revolution, World War II, Roman Empire, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, Cold War, Napoleonic Wars, American Revolution, Ottoman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Medieval Europe, Greek mythology, Latin literature, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Simone de Beauvoir, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Gregor Mendel, Rosalind Franklin, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, Alexander Fleming, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday, Dmitri Mendeleev, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Antoine Lavoisier, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simone Weil, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Honoré de Balzac, Georges Perec, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre.
Founded in 1999, the initiative emerged from collaborations among French research centers including Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Université d'Aix-Marseille, and cultural institutions such as Bibliothèque nationale de France and Institut national de la recherche pédagogique. Early development paralleled projects like Project Gutenberg, JSTOR, PubMed Central, SciELO, arXiv, HAL (open archive), and Google Scholar. Key moments intersected with European funding programs such as Horizon 2020, FP6, and FP7, and with policy frameworks from European Commission and UNESCO initiatives on open access and digitization exemplified by collaborations with Europeana and OpenAIRE.
The platform comprises multiple interconnected tools comparable to systems like Open Journal Systems, DSpace, EPrints, OJS, and service ecosystems used by Library of Congress, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and national research infrastructures. It supports indexing by Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, DOAB, and metadata exchange with CrossRef and DataCite. Integration with identifiers and infrastructures such as ORCID, ISNI, ISSN, ISBN, and DOI enables scholarly workflows involving institutions like European Research Council, Max Planck Society, Wellcome Trust, National Institutes of Health, Gates Foundation, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Collections hosted or indexed include journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and scholarly blogs authored by academics affiliated with University of Oxford, Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, University of Tokyo, Peking University, University of Toronto, University of Melbourne, University of São Paulo, University of Buenos Aires, University of Cape Town, King's College London, London School of Economics, École Polytechnique, Sciences Po, Heidelberg University, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Amsterdam, University of Copenhagen, KU Leuven, Università di Bologna, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Madrid, University of Lisbon, Trinity College Dublin, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, University of Manchester, University of Birmingham, McGill University, Queen's University Belfast, Seoul National University, National University of Singapore, Indian Institute of Science, Tsinghua University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Zurich, ETH Zurich.
The platform promotes open access models aligned with policies from Plan S, Budapest Open Access Initiative, Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, and recommendations by Committee on Publication Ethics. It implements Creative Commons licenses comparable to practices endorsed by SPARC, EIFL, Directory of Open Access Journals, and funders including Wellcome Trust, UK Research and Innovation, National Science Foundation, European Research Council, and Horizon Europe.
Governance involves collaboration among academic publishers, research libraries such as Bibliothèque nationale de France and Bibliothèque Publique d’Information, and university consortia in France and Europe. Funding sources have included national research agencies like Agence nationale de la recherche, European programs such as Horizon 2020, institutional support from Aix-Marseille University and CNRS, and project grants similar to those from European Commission and foundations like Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust.
Scholars across disciplines—from historians of Renaissance and Ancient Rome to sociologists following Pierre Bourdieu—cite works accessible via the platform in journals and books indexed by Scopus, Web of Science, and referenced in policy reports by European Commission and UNESCO. Librarians and information scientists at institutions such as Library of Congress, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Harvard Library, and Bodleian Library note its role in digital preservation and open scholarship. The platform's practices have been discussed in forums including World Library and Information Congress, OpenCon, Force11, and policy dialogues associated with Plan S and OpenAIRE.