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Hello
I am Maurine Montagnat, CNRS researcher, and I am very interested about the question of open science, and sometimes lost about the best way to proceed when publishing my results...
On think that is clear to me, is that I want research results, financed by our public institutions, to be freely accessible. And I feel that publisher policy, such as Elsevier for instance, is a way to win a lot of money by taking advantage of researchers need to publish in well known journals...
To provide an alternative seems very important to me, this is why I support, and can take actively part into this initiative for an epic-journal in Mechanics.

Dear all,
I am a CNRS research scientist working in computational mechanics and in solid mechanics. I do not agree with the existing publishing model for which public institutions all over the world need to pay incredible amount of money. Especially I do not agree with "open access" practices from Elsevier et al, suggesting the authors to pay, whereas the authors are allowed to make their research available at their personal web-pages or arXiv / HAL services and that is for free.
Another problem that I can see is that there's no, at least not yet, any open access journal in mechanics, highly respected and with a high impact factor, alternative to IJSS, JMPS, IJNME, CMAME. I have a very vague idea about how to establish one and how to attract people to publish there... Another, important for me, point is that such a journal should be international. So I would suggest to bring this initiative to the international community.

Dear All,
I am a post-doc in Universidad de Santiago de Chile, working with Prof. Francisco Melo on experimental mechanics of thin structures, in particular with unconventionnal bending properties.
I strongly support the idea that Science should remain independent and open in order to harness the power of human creativity for the greater good. By ever increasing so called "processing fees", academic publishers are nurturing the vicious circle of confining scientific research to those who control wealth. Knowledge belongs to all of us, no patent required.
Of course some journal groups like AAAS or the Royal Society are doing a great job at communicating our scientific results, which is of tremendous importance. The people needs to be aware of how their tax money convert into the great breakthroughs occurring in academic labs. Otherwise anti-intellectual populists take advantage of the confidence vacancy to grow their filth...
Going back to the matter at hand, I would consider in practice an ArXiv-type platform, entirely open and free, with an additional open Peer Review process (commentaries only, not necessarily reviewers' names) and "academic social network" for further discussion. Funding would be on a pay-what-you-can basis during the publication process, and further subsidized by ANR/ERC funding agencies. Respected scientists shoud be invited to take part in publishing with the new epi-journal in order to increase visibility. Peer review should also be of high standards to quickly gain dynamics in the community.

Dear,
I am a research scientist at SINTEF, Norway. SINTEF is a contract-based research foundation with very little basic funding. I have been working on different research topics related to material modelling (mostly solidification and microstructure).
Publication is not crucial for carrier development (as for an academic researcher). But open access would be a big change in current practice where many articles are not available because we can not afford the subscription. In addition, the trend to publish just because you need to publish has led to an inflation in the number of papers but not of the real content. Going through many useless papers is time consuming, so the selection and classification of really important publications by epi-journal would clearly increase research efficiency.

Hello everyone, I am a research fellow in Imperial College London. I work on nonlinear vibration of turbomachinery. I am so glad than someone take the initiative to create a proper open-access journal (so it seems to be an epi-journal). I see this initiative as the possibility to create a new way of publishing, In my opinion if you publish something it means that you want to share knowledge to the rest of the world and not only get credit for your work. I am tired to see business approach in research environment.

Jean-Pierre Merlet, I am a senior researcher at INRIA working in robotics, kinematics, robot design, uncertainties management

Dear all,

I am currently postdoctoral researcher at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. (more informations: https://perso.ens-lyon.fr/riad.sahli/)

As already say Elettro Hervé, « I strongly support the idea that Science should remain independent and open in order to harness the power of human creativity for the greater good. ». Sylvain Gouttebroze : « Going through many useless papers is time consuming, so the selection and classification of really important publications by epi-journal would clearly increase research efficiency. » Loic Salles « I am tired to see business approach in research environment. »

For all these reasons and many others, I support the creation of a epi-journal in mechanics.

Dear all,
Although I don't participate that much to the conversations, I follow closely this group as I also find that an epi-journal in mechanics would be a big leap for the community.

But I should introduce myself :
I am assistant professor at Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France), working in the field of computational mechanics.

Dear all,

I am a senior researcher at Safran Tech, group Safran, in the field of computational solid mechanics, and apparently the first non-academic to post on this thread. I have a very negative opinion both on pseudo-open publishing practices, particularly among the Great Elders, and on the current extreme publishing paradigm and its endorsement, more or less acknowledged, by most public institutions. I am part of the administrative council of the french composite material association (AMAC), and we have already discussed the opportunity of creating a new epi-journal for composite material related science. We felt a bit alone and too small for such an ambition and gave up the idea. I am therefore very pleased to see the much wider and stronger french mechanics community taking interest in this new publishing approach. I also hope this journal will offer the opportunity to promote scientific diversity over patronage, actual novelty over fashionable topics, rigor and pedagogy, and perhaps a combination of both academic and industrial relevance.

I therefore wholeheartedly support this initiative.

Thank you all for introducing yourself.

Just a gentle remark for those who don't want to write a presentation. Some profile are really obscure and difficult to follow. Could you please complete your name, giving first name and last name, and your affiliation into your profile.

Thank you.