origin france headquarters location les ulis nonfiction topics chemistry engineering & technology general knowledge health sciences & dentistry life sciences mathematics & computer sciences physics & astronomy social sciences & humanities owner s soci t fran aise de physique soci t chimique de france soci t de math matiques appliqu es et industrielles and soci t fran aise d optique official website www.edpsciences.org edp sciences dition diffusion presse sciences is an stm publisher that works closely with the scientific world . it specialises in the communication and dissemination of scientific information to specialist and general audiences alike general public decision makers teachers etc. . edp sciences produces and publishes international journals books conferences and internet sites with a predominantly scientific or technical content . edp sciences is a publishing house owned by learned societies and run by publishing professionals . contents 1 history 2 thematics 3 publications 4 open access 5 web of conferences 6 references 7 external links history edit edp sciences was founded in 1920 under the name la soci t du journal de physique et le radium . it thus took over the publication of the journal de physique established in 1872 on the occasion of its merger with the journal le radium created in 1904 . among the founders figure the soci t fran aise de physique and several renowned scientists and industrialists antoine b cl re louis de broglie marie curie paul langevin louis lumi re jean perrin and l on brillouin as well as patrons such as albert i prince of monaco . the company continued to publish the different sections of the journal de physique until the 80s at which point it started expanding into other areas of physics particularly astrophysics . likewise the company expanded into the publication of books . finally in 1997 it was decided to expand and develop the company in the direction of other scientific communities . this development led the company to change its previous name les ditions de physique to edp sciences which means dition diffusion presse sciences in 1998 . with almost 50 international online journals most of them are indexed in the major databases such as web of science and scopus as well as about a hundred websites edp sciences is considered as the first independent french editor concerning the publishing of international academic journals . many partnerships with european editors such as cambridge university press and springer have been developed . edp sciences is under the joint ownership of the soci t fran aise de physique the soci t chimique de france the soci t de math matiques appliqu es et industrielles and the soci t fran aise d optique . nowadays edp sciences is a publishing group gathering several entities edp sciences the publishing partner of the scientific communities ; edp sant the medical branch of the company ; edp open the platform for open access journals . thematics edit chemistry general knowledge mathematics and computer science health sciences & dentistry physics astronomy and astrophysics engineering & technology social sciences & humanities life sciences publications edit main category edp sciences academic journals today the company publishes more than 50 scientific journals both paper and electronic but also professional magazines in the physics domain photoniques europhysics news ... and in health sciences audio infos basse vision infos l entreprise officinale orthophile ind pendentaire ... . it also manages the publishing of several books every year monographs at master s level or higher as well as undergraduate teaching texts professional works and popular science books . examples of journals title themes scientific partnership impact factor astronomy and astrophysics astronomy and astrophysics physics european southern observatory eso 5.185 2015 esaim control optimisation and calculus of variations mathematics and computer science soci t de math matiques appliqu es et industrielles smai 0.758 esaim mathematical modelling and numerical analysis mathematics and computer science soci t de math matiques appliqu es et industrielles smai 1.218 european physical journal applied physics epj ap engineering & technology physics cnrs european physical society eps 0.771 hydro cologie appliqu e engineering & technology social sciences & humanities general knowledge health sciences life sciences edf knowledge and management of aquatic ecosystems kmae life sciences office national de l eau et des milieux aquatiques onema 1.520 m canique et industrie engineering & technology physics association fran aise de m canique afm 0.221 l orthodontie fran aise health sciences & dentistry soci t fran aise d orthop die dento faciale sfodf parasite life sciences soci t fran aise de parasitologie revue d orthop die dento faciale health sciences & dentistry association de la revue d orthop die dento faciale open access edit edp sciences supports the development of open access journals in the context of its support of scientific communities . part of its catalogue of journals is already in total gold or partial green open access and edp sciences is rated a green publisher by the sherpa romeo site . 1 edp sciences is also a member of oaspa open access scholarly publishers association which is an organisation set up to support and represent the interests of open access journal publishers in all scientific technical and scholarly disciplines . web of conferences edit edp web of conferences redirects here . it is not to be confused with epj web of conferences . web of conferences is a portal entirely dedicated to scientific conferences . it offers an international meetings calendar and a space collecting all the conference proceedings published by edp sciences . it also provides a complete and flexible proceedings publishing service . references edit 1 external links edit edp sciences website scientific e library french dentistry e library french dentistry and management e library french portal dedicated to scientific conferences retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title edp sciences & oldid 736724337 categories academic publishing companiespublishing companies of francemedia in parishidden categories articles with french language external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aisnederlands edit links this page was last modified on 29 august 2016 at 12 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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