About

OPUS - Open PUblishing Services

Initiated and implemented within the framework of the IdEx Université Paris Cité ANR-18-IDEX-0001, the OPUS platform provides the university's scientific community with services covering the entire scientific publishing process, for both books and academic journals. Its aim is to produce scientific content, produced or coordinated by the university's scientific community, and to disseminate this knowledge through open access.

The platform is part of the university's Open Science policy, which focuses on 3 areas: publications, research data and software. Together with the HAL Université Paris Cité portal, the OPUS platform is part of the first of these areas, dedicated to scientific publications.

The OPUS editorial policy is based on several principles:

  • high scientific quality, thanks to peer review of manuscripts submitted for publication;
  • open-access publishing, for distribution to the widest possible audience;
  • Creative Commons publishing licenses, allowing authors and their rights to be protected, and published content to be reused;
  • a multi-media publication - paper and digital in various formats (html, pdf, xml, source files).

Governance

The OPUS platform is implemented by the Direction des Bibliothèques et des Musées under the auspices of Université Paris Cité, in partnership with the Atrium Humanités et sciences sociales.

In accordance with the National Open Science Committee’s exemplarity criteria, the governance of the platform relies on three committees, namely, the steering, scientists and users committees. The steering committee is managed directly by the university’s research committee, and the users committee is being created.

Editorial board members
Maud Devès (IPGP)
Yves Gallet (IPGP)
Frédédic Hélein (Faculté des Sciences)
Alioune Ndour (Faculté de Santé)
Sylvie Patron (Faculté Sociétés et Humanités)
Valerie Robin-Azevedo (Faculté Sociétés et Humanités, Présidence)
Ihsène Taïhi (Faculté de Santé)
Alessandra Tonazzo (Faculté des Sciences)

Editorial office members
Vincent Colpin (Direction des Bibliothèques et des Musées)
Anne Lecomte (Faculté Sociétés et Humanités)
Valerie Robin-Azevedo (Faculté Sociétés et Humanités)
Catherine Storne (Direction des Bibliothèques et des Musées)

Infrastructure

The platform's technical infrastructure relies on two open source software packages from the Public Knowledge Project (PKP): Open Journal System (OJS) and Open Monograph Press (OMP). These softwares allow to handle the evaluation steps of the editorial process (registration of the submissions, management of the peer reviewing) and the subsequent production steps, including distribution in PDF and HTML formats. The editorial tasks are carried out using the tools developed by the Métopes research infrastructure for single source publishing (see partners page).

Publishing Academy for Young Scientists

The National Fund for Open Science is the financing instrument of the Open Science policy set up by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The Publishing Academy for Young Scientists (PAYS) project, which is managed by Université Paris Cité in partnership with the Fédération Internationale des Jeunes Neurologues Francophones (FIJNF), was awarded a grant under the 2nd call for projects of this fund (2021). The PAYS project aims to strengthen the skills first-time authors need to mobilize in the context of scientific publication: scientific writing, academic English, data management, transparency of the processes related to scientific integrity issues. The project is implemented within the community of young neurologists, under the banner of the FIJNF.

Working team

Developers: Erwan Bourrand, Olivier Ghuzel
Platform manager: Vincent Colpin

Contact

opus.dbm(at)u-paris(dot)fr