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.

Together with the HAL Université Paris Cité portal, the OPUS platform is part of the university's Open Science roadmap, which focuses on 3 areas: publications, research data and software.

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.

The governance of the platform relies on two committees, namely, a steering committee which is managed directly by the university’s research committee, and a scientific committee (editorial board).

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, Responsable de la plate-forme OPUS
Catherine Storne, Direction des Bibliothèques et des Musées, Responsable du pôle Science ouverte et accompagnement de la recherche

Technical framework

The OPUS platform is based primarily on two open-source software packages from the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) initiative: Open Journal System (OJS) for journals, and Open Monograph Press (OMP) for books. These solutions coordinate the peer review process of manuscripts, and enable the online publication. The interface accessible to authors guarantees transparency and traceability in the processing of their manuscripts.

As part of the PAYS (Publishing Academy for Young Scientists) project, OPUS developments on OJS are made freely available: https://github.com/PAYS-upcite/.

Contact

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