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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">*<b>With apologies for cross-posting</b>*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please see below some information I believe may be of interest to readers of this list.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The full press release is available below and also on the EDP Sciences news page - https://bit.ly/3aygmZL<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For any questions, please contact Charlotte Van Rooyen, Head of Marketing and Communications, EDP Sciences, charlotte.vanrooyen@edpsciences.org<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your attention.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maria Campbell<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marketing Communications Manager<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">*****<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h1>EDP Sciences publishing statement in response to COVID-19 pandemic<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Paris, France 31 March 2020: In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a publisher which has always put the academic community at the forefront of everything we do, we have decided to open our journals content from
2018-2020 so it is freely available for all to read*.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The reasons for this are two-fold:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">1. Medical research – ensuring there is nothing within our pay-walled content that could be useful for current research related to the crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">2. To support the many thousands of academics and researchers who are now confined to working from home and may not have easy access to key research articles from their institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Agnès Henri, Managing Director, EDP Sciences, said: “The impact of the coronavirus pandemic is creating huge challenges for us all in the scholarly community. We know access to content will be severely disrupted
during this time which is why we want to offer our support by freeing up our content to researchers during this
</span>extraordinary <span style="color:black">time.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For nearly 10 years, EDP Sciences has
</span>actively <span style="color:black">supported open access (OA) and the dissemination of science through measures including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- Publishing a number of fully OA journals; 52% of articles published in 2019 were open access<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- Helping journals to transition to open access and support the principles of open science (open access, open peer review, open data and open code)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Offering <span style="color:black">generous policies regarding embargo of subscription content<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Not requiring any <span style="color:black">embargos for depositing pre-prints into institutional and subject repositories<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Negotiating <span style="color:black">a number of transformative agreements to support the transition from subscription models to OA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Adopting <span style="color:black">and </span>developing <span style="color:black">
a number of OA initiatives including Subscribe to Open and Liberty APCs <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- Supporting the waiver of OA fees through our Research4Life programme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- Supporting a number of organisations which champion open access including OA Switchboard, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), ScienceOpen and OASPA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Signing <span style="color:black">the Wellcome coordinated statement on </span><a href="https://wellcome.ac.uk/press-release/sharing-research-data-and-findings-relevant-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak">sharing research data and findings
relevant to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Content will initially be made available from 30 March until the end of June 2020. We will continually monitor the situation and question any activity which may indicate abuse of the initiative. Copyright on individual
articles will remain unchanged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">*</span>A few <span style="color:black">
exceptions </span>remain:<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Journals we publish on behalf of partners
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">from whom <span style="color:black">
we have not yet received permission; these will be added as and when we receive authorisation<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Journals we do not own
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">for which we <span style="color:black">
simply host content<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">ENDS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more information please contact: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Charlotte Van Rooyen, Head of Marketing and Communications</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">,
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">EDP Sciences</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">,
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Phone: +33 7 83 81 12 04</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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