EDP Sciences


EDP Sciences is an STM publisher that specialises scientific information for specialist and more general audiences. EDP produces and publishes international journals, books, conferences, and websites with predominantly scientific and technical content. The company is a joint venture of four French learned societies in science, mathematics, and medicine.

History

The company was founded in 1920 under the name La Société du Journal de Physique et Le Radium. It thus took over the publication of the Journal de Physique on the occasion of its merger with the journal Le Radium. Among the founders were the Société Française de Physique and several notable scientists and industrialists: Antoine Béclère, Louis de Broglie, Marie Curie, Paul Langevin, Louis Lumière, Jean Perrin, and Léon Brillouin, as well as patrons such as Albert I, Prince of Monaco.
The company continued to publish the different sections of the Journal de Physique until the 1980s, at which point its journal publishing expanded into other areas of physics, particularly astrophysics. The company also began publishing books.
In 1997, the publisher broadened further to reach other scientific markets, and changed its name to Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences.
EDP Sciences today publishes almost 50 international paper and electronic journals and magazines, as well as about a hundred websites and a variety of annual and monograph books. The publisher is jointly owned by four learned societies: the Société Française de Physique, the Société Chimique de France, the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles, and the Société Française d'Optique. EDP maintains partnerships with other European publishers, including Cambridge University Press and Springer. The company claims to be considered the first independent French publisher of international academic journals.
The company has become a publishing group of several entities:
Across its divisions, EDP Science publishes in the following subject areas: chemistry; general knowledge; mathematics and computer science; health sciences and dentistry; physics, astronomy, and astrophysics; engineering and technology; social sciences and humanities; life sciences.
The company publishes more than 50 scientific journals, both paper and electronic, and also a number of professional magazines in the physics domain and in health sciences.
EDP Science manages the annual publishing of several undergraduate teaching texts, other professional books, and popular-science books, and also publishes monographs at masters-degree level and higher.
TitleThemesScientific partnership
Astronomy and AstrophysicsAstronomy and Astrophysics, PhysicsEuropean Southern Observatory
ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of VariationsMathematics and Computer ScienceSociété de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles
ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical AnalysisMathematics and Computer ScienceSociété de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles
European Physical Journal Applied Physics Engineering & Technology, PhysicsCNRS – European Physical Society
Hydroécologie appliquéeEngineering & Technology, Social Sciences & Humanities, General Knowledge, Health Sciences, Life SciencesEDF
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems Life SciencesOffice national de l'eau et des milieux aquatiques
Mécanique et industrieEngineering & Technology, PhysicsAssociation française de mécanique
L'Orthodontie françaiseHealth Sciences & DentistrySociété française d'orthopédie dento-faciale
ParasiteLife SciencesSociété Française de Parasitologie
Revue d'Orthopédie Dento-FacialeHealth Sciences & DentistryAssociation de la Revue d’Orthopédie Dento-Faciale

Open access

EDP Sciences supports the development of open-access journals. Part of its catalogue of journals is already in total or partial open access, and it is rated a "green publisher" by the SHERPA/RoMEO site.
EDP is also a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, a trade association of OA publishers in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines.

Web of Conferences

Web of Conferences is an online portal entirely dedicated to scientific conferences. It offers an international meetings calendar and a space collecting all the conference proceedings published by EDP Sciences. It also provides a proceedings-publishing service.