Centre Mersenne is an open access scientific publishing infrastructure that Mathdoc has been developing since 2018 with the support of its trustees and the IDEX of Grenoble. Centre Mersenne was created to promote diamond open access (immediate open access, without publication costs for authors) and targets two specific groups:
researchers
who gain free access to journal articles published on the centre Mersenne platform.
editorial teams
who can manage their journals independently by using the editing tools developed by centre Mersenne.
The journals, books, proceedings and seminars available on the centre Mersenne platform come from all scientific and technological disciplines and are distributed in diamond open access, mainly written in LaTeX.
Phases and funding
Mathdoc story
Centre Mersenne inherited the content from the Cedram (center for the dissemination of mathematical academic journals), which Mathdoc ran from 2005 to 2017.
The journals from Cedram now form its mathematical core. Centre Mersenne also expanded its disciplinary fields to integrate journals from Science and Technology disciplines while expanding its services.
Centre Mersenne draws on the expertise Mathdoc has acquired through its management of the Numdam (digital library) and Cedram (dissemination of academic mathematics journals) programmes.
Credits
Mathdoc develops centre Mersenne with support from CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA). It also receives support from the following sources:
- Grenoble IDEX
- French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) – Call for projects 2020 (DEMOS project)
- French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) – Call for projects 2021 (MarginaliAS project led by the French Academy of Sciences)
- French Ministry of Higher Education and Research for the translation project
Centre Mersenne also receives donations from laboratories, universities and libraries. The main donors are:
- Université de Strasbourg
- Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées à Paris 5 (MAP5)
- Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Mathématiques (LAREMA)
- Bibliothèque de mathématiques de Lyon 1 (SCD Lyon 1- Institut Camille Jordan)
Governance
Centre Mersenne has two governing bodies:
Steering committee
The steering committee meets twice a year. It is kept informed of activities, provides strategic guidance, and establishes the priorities when the workload exceeds available resources. It regularly invites scientific experts (Chairman of the Scientific Council, Director of the Open Research Data Department – DDOR). It consists of:
- the director of CNRS Mathematics – INSMI
- the vice president of research, Université Grenoble Alpes
- the operational manager of centre Mersenne
- Mathdoc’s management
Mathdoc’s scientific council
The scientific council is responsible for reviewing the journals’ applications to centre Mersenne and giving an opinion on the directions for centre Mersenne. It is comprised of mathematicians who reflect their commitment to geographical and thematic diversity.
Team
Management and scientific leadership
Evelyne Miot
Scientific manager
Vincent Beffara
Scientific manager
Olivier Labbe
IT manager
Loren Coquille
Scientific advisor
Administrative and financial management
Céline Talbi
Administrative and financial manager
Edition
Célia Vaudaine
Centre Mersenne operational manager
Murielle Serlet
Editor
Mouhamadou-Moustapha Deme
Publishing assistant
Nicolas Franco-Nollet
LaTeX layout designer and standards officer
Alexandre Moeschler
LaTeX layout designer and standards officer
IT and development
Xavier Beaufils
Developer
Patrick Bernaud
Developer
Simon Chevance
Developer
Samuel Conjard
Developer
Matthieu Guimard
Developer
Franck Lontin
System network administrator
See the documents produced by Mathdoc on centre Mersenne.
