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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The full press release is available below and also on the EDP Sciences news<span> </span><span style="color: black">page<span> </span></span><u><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114)"><a href="http://bit.ly/2XuxXfx" style="text-decoration: underline">http://bit.ly/2XuxXfx</a></span></u><span style="color: black">.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">For any questions or comments, please contact Charlotte Van Rooyen, Head of Marketing and Communications, EDP Sciences, charlotte.vanrooyen@edpsciences.org</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">For immediate release: 19</span><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">November</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">2019</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">EDP Sciences joins forces with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and its publisher Science Press Ltd.<i></i></span></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Strong ties to the world’s largest research organisation will strengthen EDP Sciences’ ability to serve the global academic community<span> </span></span></i></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Paris, France: An exchange of signatures took place<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">on</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">13</span><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">November</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">finalising
the sale of EDP Sciences to Chinese Science Publishing & Media Ltd. (Science Press). This concludes the agreement reached earlier this year by EDP Sciences’ former co-owners,<span> </span><a href="https://www.sfpnet.fr/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">Société
Française de Physique</a>,<span> </span><a href="http://www.societechimiquedefrance.fr/?lang=fr" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">Société Chimique de France</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.sfoptique.org/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">Société
Française d’Optique</a>and<span> </span><a href="http://smai.emath.fr/?lang=en" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles</a>, to sell their interests in their publishing partner to Science
Press, the flagship of China’s sci-tech publishing industry. Science Press is 74%-owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the world’s largest research organisation and a prestigious learned society.<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">“As our centenary approaches, we are delighted to secure a sustainable future for EDP Sciences to move ahead with the pioneering work that Marie Curie and her co-founders began in 1920 to serve the publishing needs
of the academic community,” commented Agnès Henri, Managing Director, EDP Sciences. “Joining forces with<span style="color: red"></span>Science Press provides EDP Sciences with a golden opportunity to develop as a mid-size open access publisher. This significant
investment in our long-term growth will enhance our capabilities and strengthen our ability to serve as a publishing alternative for researchers in a landscape that is increasingly dominated by a handful of major commercial players.”<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Lin Peng, President, Science Press said, “Science Press has made a strong commitment to protecting the long-term interests of EDP Sciences and enhancing its future development.” Dr. Lin<span style="color: red"></span>explained
that EDP Sciences’ former co-owners will continue to support EDP Sciences’ development. Dr. Henri elaborated, “Day-to-day management and administration of EDP Sciences will continue to be handled by our experienced team based in France.” A Scientific Advisory
Committee is being set up for EDP</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Sciences<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">that will include representatives from the former society co-owners as well as members of the
wider scientific community. The committee will provide editorial advice to ensure that EDP Sciences’ high-quality publishing standards are maintained.<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">“Science Press is keen to foster international cooperation and collaboration with scientists around the world, to advance science and address global challenges. Our new partnership with EDP Sciences is an important
step on this path and will allow us to maximise potential and optimise resources,” noted Dr. Lin.<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Science Press publishes books and journals in Science, Technology, Medicine and Education. Its contributors include a significant number of distinguished authors such as the Nobel Prize Laureate, Tu Youyou. Science
Press sits at the forefront of the highest-quality Chinese research, spearheaded by CAS. According to Nature Index, CAS has held the number one position in ‘<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01927-8" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">Top
ten institutions for physical sciences in 2018</a>’ ahead of the Max Planck Society, CNRS and MIT for four years in a row. CAS also supported a series of breakthroughs in quantum communication and computing, new progress in the study of re-emerging superconductivity,
major breakthroughs in stem cell research and the discovery of a key factor in regulating the development of brain intelligence.<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Jean-Marc Quilbé, President, EDP Sciences, expanded on the benefits of the new ties, “EDP Sciences will now be associated with some of the best scientific research in the world. When combined with governance based
on the values of learned societies, and wider, international perspectives, EDP Sciences will be well placed to challenge and potentially lead the market. The new association with CAS brings tremendous value and aligns with our mission. EDP Sciences was founded
by societies and has always been owned by societies thereby occupying a privileged position at the heart of the scientific community. Many of its journals are published in association with learned societies throughout the world. We will continue this tradition
through the new close partnership with CAS.”</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">About EDP Sciences:</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">EDP Sciences is an academic publisher founded and owned by learned societies with nearly 100 years of publishing experience producing scientific journals, books, conference proceedings and other publications.<span> </span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">EDP
Sciences was founded in 1920 as<span> </span><i>La Société du Journal de Physique et Le Radium</i>.<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">It has published the work of many notable scientists including Marie Curie, Max Planck and
Ernest Rutherford.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.edpsciences.org/en/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">Further information about EDP Sciences</a><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline">.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Read our<span> </span><a href="https://www.edpsciences.org/en/faqs-regarding-edp-sale" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">frequently asked questions (FAQs)</a>relating to this press release.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">About Chinese Science Publishing & Media Ltd.:</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cspm.com.cn/home2017/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">Further information about CSPM</a>.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">About Science Press Ltd.:</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Science Press originated from Longmen Book Ltd. in the 1930s. It is now the largest comprehensive sci-tech publisher in China, and is affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Science Press publishes over
4000 book titles and over 340 science and technology journals annually. Science Press is praised as the “Publishing House for Scientists” in China. Numerous academicians and scholars, who left significant records on the development of the history of science
and technology in China, published most of their important research results through the books and journals of Science Press, for example, the “Father of Chinese Rocketry” Qian Xuesen, the mathematician Hua Luogeng,<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">the</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">“Father
of Super Hybrid Rice” Yuan Longping, Bai Chunli, the Chemist and the President of CAS, the Nobel Prize Laureate Tu Youyou etc. Since the 1970s, Science Press has been actively exploring international development. It has set up branches in the United States
and Japan successively and has also established partnership relationships with over 200 publishers in more than 20 countries.<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="http://english.sciencep.cas.cn/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">Further information about Science Press</a>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The Chinese Academy of Sciences was established on 1 November 1949 in Beijing where it is headquartered. CAS is the linchpin of China’s drive to explore and harness high technology and the natural sciences for
the benefit of China and the world. Comprising a comprehensive research and development network, a merit-based learned society and a system of higher education, CAS brings together scientists and engineers from China and around the world to address both theoretical
and applied problems using world-class scientific and management approaches.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">CAS
comprises 104 research institutes, 12 branch academies, three universities and 11 supporting organizations in 23 provincial-level areas throughout the country. These institutions are home to more than 100 national key labs and engineering centres as well as
nearly 200 CAS key labs and engineering centres. Altogether, CAS comprises 1,000 sites and stations across China.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:charlotte.vanrooyen@edpsciences.org?subject=Science%20Press%20sale%20press%20release" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">Charlotte Van Rooyen</a>, Head of Marketing and
Communications, EDP Sciences.</span></p>
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