# Our contribution to open and inclusive scientific communication

Murielle Serlet

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## To cite this version:

Murielle Serlet. Our contribution to open and inclusive scientific communication. The Future of Diamond OA Publishing in Europe and Beyond, Jun 2025, Bruxelles, Belgium. hal-05107941

HAL Id: hal-05107941

https://hal.science/hal-05107941v1

Submitted on 11 Jun 2025

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CENTRE
MERSENNE

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# OUR CONTRIBUTION TO OPEN AND INCLUSIVE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION

The centre Mersenne is a public publishing infrastructure serving the scientific community.

It aims to promote scientific publishing and dissemination of publications (journals, books, seminars and conferences) in all disciplines of science and technology, both national and international, committed to open access and publishing mainly in LaTeX.

29 JOURNALS,
BOOKS, CONFERENCE AND
SEMINAR PROCEEDINGS

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

+29 700 ARTICLES

## DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS

### Institutions or public funding

* Infrastructure and maintenance

* Research and development

* Coordination and support

* One-time costs of setting up a publication

### Journals contribution

* One-time costs of setting up a publication

* Maintenance

* Variable costs incurred by the flow of each review

### For authors and readers

FREE

* The editorial boards and their roles are clearly defined on the websites

* All our journals are **peer-reviewed**, guaranteeing equal treatment for all submissions

* Possibility of **publishing reviewers' reports**

TRANSPARENCY

* The journals remain the **property of researchers**

* The authors **retain full rights** to their publications and can deposit their articles in open archives

* **Editorial independence:** the editors-in-chief have full responsibility for the editorial content

* At a technical level, the platform provides all the publishing tools and services that enable editorial teams to manage, produce and distribute their publications **freely**.

INDEPENDENCE
& INTEGRITY

* Immediate open access under a **Creative Commons licence**

* Formats: PDF, full text-HTML, with JATS XML metadata. The LaTeX sources can be made available

* **Interoperable metadata:** OAI-PMH protocols, metadata export, DOI attribution via Crossref, tools such as Cited-by...

* **Long-term preservation** via the CLOCKSS system

* Indexation in numerous databases

* Semi-automatic translation of articles

VISIBILITY
& EASY ACCESS