From: Charlotte Van Rooyen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:26:18 -0500

I hope this news is of interest to lib-license readers.

EDP Sciences, a learned-society owned publisher has just announced the
launch of their new Open Access imprint - EDP Open. EDP partners with
societies, publishers and academics, and this latest initiative
intends to support them in integrating Open Access into their
publishing activities. EDP Open has also launched two Gold Open Access
journals Manufacturing Review and EPJ Applied Metamaterials.
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Full details are in the Press Release below, do get in touch with me,
or with Nigel Hollingworth (contact info given at the end) if you need
any more information.

Kind regards
Charlotte
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Charlotte Van Rooyen
TBI Communications Limited
Web: www.tbicommunications.com
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PRESS RELEASE

EDP Sciences announces the launch of EDP Open

Paris, France, February 4th 2014 - EDP Sciences, a learned-society
owned publisher - has announced the launch of EDP Open - a new Open
Access imprint.

EDP Sciences has almost a century's experience of publishing high
quality, international journals, magazines, books and websites. Today,
EDP partners with prestigious societies, publishers and prominent
academics.

Open Access represents a significant shift in the journals publishing
landscape, creating both opportunities and threats for societies and
other specialist publishers. EDP Sciences has extensive experience of
both converting subscription journals to Open Access, and launching
Open Access titles. EDP Open becomes their new platform for Gold Open
Access publishing.

"We have an active Open Access programme," said Jean-Marc Quilbé,
President of EDP Sciences.  "We've worked with a range of societies
and publishers to advise them on their best response to Open Access
trends and policies. For some of our partners, this has been to
convert their journal to full Open Access; for others, a hybrid
approach has been more appropriate.  Increasingly now we're being
asked to support the launch of new Gold Open Access journals, and EDP
Open is our response to this."

EDP Open provides access to more than 70,000 Open Access scientific
articles from across all EDP Sciences' journals and also hundreds of
conference proceedings. EDP Open has also launched two new Gold Open
Access journals: Manufacturing Review - a forum for presenting the
latest advances, developments and applications of manufacturing
engineering, technology and applied sciences; and also EPJ Applied
Metamaterials - a platform for multidisciplinary researchers to
exchange information on metamaterials with a focus on high impact
engineering applications.

"At EDP we believe Open Access holds many opportunities for society
publishers," continued Quilbé. "Of course, we're aware that the threat
to established income sources need managing too. We don't dictate a
specific approach, but we do feel it's important for societies to
explore their options and begin to integrate Open Access into their
activities. We help them do just that. There can be little doubt that
Open Access is here to stay."

About EDP Sciences and EDP Open
EDP Sciences is a not-for-profit publisher, established in 1920,
belonging to learned societies with a mission to participate in the
dissemination of important research that accelerates scientific
progress and cross-fertilisation of ideas of the society in general.
EDP Open is the Open Access arm of EDP Sciences. EDP Sciences is
located in Paris and London and publishes over 55 scientific journals
in the physical sciences, mathematics, life and environmental
sciences, energy, materials and engineering, health and biomedical
sciences. It also publishes 20 professional magazines, conference
proceedings (www.webofconferences.org) and books.

For more information:
Nigel Hollingworth
Publishing Consultant
EDP Open
www.edp-open.org
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