The governance of Episciences is evolving. A Strategic Orientation Board brings together representatives from the supervisory bodies and institutions that allocate human resources to the platform, as well as a representative from each of the disciplinary scientific boards.
The CCSD Steering Committee is the decision-making body for the three platforms, HAL, Episciences and Sciencesconf.
The Episciences Strategic Orientation Board is an advisory body which operates within the framework validated by the CCSD Steering Committee.
Its role is to propose guidelines to the CCSD Steering Committee and to provide medium and long-term vision for the Episciences platform. In particular, it is responsible for
- Defining the Episciences roadmap, including editorial policy, development priorities and the Episciences funding model;
- Developing an international dissemination and communication strategy;
- Monitoring existing disciplinary scientific councils and encouraging their creation in new scientific areas;
- Defining the conditions for access to the platform.
The board is made up of representatives from the CCSD’s supervisory bodies and the institutions that allocate human resources to Episciences, as well as the disciplinary scientific councils.
There are currently three Disciplinary Scientific Boards: epiMaths for mathematics, epiIAM for Informatics and Applied Mathematics, and epiSHS for social and human sciences. Their role is to set the scientific policy of the platform for the disciplines concerned and to stimulate the creation of editorial boards likely to organise new overlay journals, particularly in areas where they need to be developed. They guarantee the impartiality of the evaluation of applications and the scientific quality of the journals in their respective fields.
The Strategic Orientation Board met for the first time on 12 March. The members are:
- Olivier Fruchart (CNRS)
- Vincent Acary (Inria)
- Baptiste Bedessem (INRAE)
- Vincent Beffara (Institut Fourier)
- Odile Contat (MESR)
- Marianne Reboul (epiSHS)
- Stéphane Druel (epiMaths)
- Jos Baeten (epiIAM)
- Nathalie Fargier (CCSD)
- Raphaël Tournoy (CCSD)