 So we're here in the Tessaloniki at the Nanotechnology Conference and hi, so who are you? Hi, I'm Arianna Fuga from EDP Sciences. I'm a senior publishing editor the company EDP Sciences is an international publisher of academic journals proceedings and books Based in France. So for example, this one is applied physics is every month This one is yes. It's every month. It's the journal. It's the European physical journal applied physics. So who are the researchers that get published here? Researchers are from all the world. First of all, there are physicists in applied physics and we have in the scope For example, physicists working on semiconductors and devices physics of organic materials and devices, thin films, photonics and so on. And so how do you choose what gets published? Well, these journals as well as they add all our journals are peer-reviewed. So articles are submitted usually in the journal and then they get peer-reviewed. An editorial board is going to find referees, people who will review the articles and after acceptance articles are published it's the classical way of publishing scholarly articles. The classical way is it that every university does this? But you're a private company, right? We are a private company. We belong to learn societies. Belong to who? To learn societies. And it's French company? The company is international. It's based in France. We have a very interesting history. Next year the company will have a century and it was the first stakeholders were very known scientists, Marie Curie, Louis de Broglie and other distinguished scientists. So Marie Curie is one of the founders? One of the first stakeholders, yes. And the journal, the company was at the beginning founded in order to make the merging of two journals, the Journal de Physique and the radio. At that time they wanted to merge the two. Radio? The radium. Yes. And here you talk about some other things. Is this every six months or when is this coming out? This one is bimathely. Twice a month. Once in every two months. Yes, this is a journal that one of the very huge journals that have, for example, not only English but also French language articles. In the same... Yes, it's a mix. Nice. It's good for me because I can understand both, right? Some people understand both. Yeah, and this is a journal that publishes articles and materials scientists and in the use of materials. And what do you talk about here? Well, I have brought here many of our sample of journals that we publish in open access. The DP-Size is an editor that is very strongly involved in the open access movement. For example, I take this journal, EPG Applied Metamaterials, European Physical Journal Applied Metamaterials, is a journal in open access. This is the editor-in-chief and the journal publishes work on metamaterials. The peer reviewing is done as for the other journals in which are not in open access and for this year still we have a model, an economic model for this journal where that we call Liberty APCs, Liberty Article Processing Charges. This means that authors can pay if they have if they have funding can pay for this journal, but if they don't have they cannot. They don't have to. They don't have to. It's voluntary contributions. Yes, for some years. We have some journals that we have in this model. And this is also another one? Yes, this also is in this model and this is publishes articles on manufacturing. I'll show you the editor-in-chief. And so what's the big move to do this open access? He says right here, open access. Does that mean because those in general the journals have not been free access or have not been open for everybody to access? Usually the journals are under subscription. And now we know that the the movement in Europe, at least in Europe, is to go towards the open science, so publishing research for every which will be available for everybody. Worldwide, for free. Worldwide, but this has a cost. The publishing has a cost, so this research also and these models needs to be funded. For the moment, we try to launch this kind of journals. EDP Sciences already has made an agreement with the French biggest consortium Coupre, for the French institutions. Authors coming from the institutions that have joined the agreement can publish without paying anything in open access in our journals. And we try to make these kind of agreements with other countries as well. What is this for open? This is our very new project. This is a mega journal that is in open access. It's newly launched and this journal is really compliant with the open science. It is based in open access, open data, open code and open peer review. We just begin to apply the open peer review in this journal. How does it work? Open peer review? That means that we first, in the first stage, will publish the reviews of the articles with, surely, with a confirmation of authors, with the permission of authors and peer reviewers, and it will begin just in the few coming months. So, EDP Sciences have been involved in the last century of scientific innovations in a big way? Yes, sure. We try to apply the new innovations also in publishing industry. And these are the applied peer review, open access and open peer review. And what is a web of conferences? And this is our platform to publish open, in open access, conference proceedings. Proceedings are published in journals of proceedings. And these journals are one, for example, in one conference, one volume of the journal, and the journals are indexed in the basis of proceedings. And so people can just go online and see the whole conference? Yes. The video? Yes, also video can, we don't, for the moment, I don't know if we have too many... Can you just use YouTube, maybe? But it is possible. Maybe YouTube links or something. This could be a good idea for the next stage. For the moment, we can have a supplementary material online video as well. All right. And here's some more information about that. What else are you doing? Many things? We do also books. We do some books, maybe about 50, 70 books per year. Mostly books in French, but also someone in English. And we begin also to publish books in open access in our platform. And index books. Is the EU funding this, pushing for open access? Is the EU promoting it? EU is trying to make this kind of publishing an open size in general, a reality in all countries. But it can help to speed up science. If this becomes a new standard, right? Yes, yes. Then there will be no... This is the position of Europe, yes. There will be no barriers, there will just be quick innovation, right? And how is the French science compared to English language science? How would you compare? French is, the French are doing a lot? French are doing a lot, surely, but they communicate very, very, very much in English. So it's already mostly in English? There is also some French. For example, in this journal, Materia Technica, I have still articles in French. All right. OK, so, and here you have the nanotechnology here in Tessaloniki. So you just continue and continue to network with all the scientists and engineers? Sure. We, the purpose is to network with science and engineers also to participate in the conferences and try to follow what is going on, what are the innovations, what are the European projects that are going on. So it's a global, not only network, but also following science and also inviting authors to publish in our journals and make known our open access journals and proceedings. Do you organize conferences or? No, we don't. You don't, but you do all the publishing around it, maybe? Exactly. All right, for a century, which is awesome. Yes, yes. OK, thank you. Thank you.