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Dr Agnès Henri Publishing Director [email protected] August 5, 2015

EDP Sciences & A&A

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Milestone 46 years ago:

On April 8, 1968 a number of leading astronomers from Belgium, Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands met in Leiden to prepare a possible merging of some of the principal existing journals.

1969: A new journal was born

Publishing partner of the scientific communities

Many European journals existed:

• Annales d'Astrophysique (1938)

• Bulletin Astronomique (1884)

• Bulletin of the Astron. Inst. of the Netherlands (BAN, 1921)

• Journal des Observateurs (1915)

• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astron. Society (MN1895)

• Zeitschrift für Astrophysik (ZfAp) (1930)

• Arkiv för Astronomi (1903, 1949)

(The history of the creation of Astronomy and Astrophysics, S.R. Pottasch, Astron. Astrophys. 352, 349–353, 1999)

Why a new journal?


• European astronomy was growing after World War II

• European astronomy was getting stronger: optical, space (ESO, ESRO later succeeded by ESA, etc.)

• Scientific results needed to be more visible

• European authors wanted to become better known around the world

• More efficient to merge several European Journals

• More visibility if publications were in English

• European solidarity was becoming stronger

…

Why a new journal?


And now?

46 years later, 580 volumes have been published and A&A publishes 20,000 pages/year

and has a fully international authorship

First issue appeared on January 1, 1969

First Chair of the Board of A&A

Adrian Blaauw (© ESO)


Organization, Funding

Board of Directors

25 members

Executive Committee

6 Board Members

Editors-in-Chief

Thierry Forvielle

Joao Alvès (Letters)

Associate Editors

Managing Editor

Nabila Aghanim

Editorial assistants

Language Editors

Publisher

EDP Sciences

ESO handles legal aspects

The journal is governed by the Board of Directors

The Board decides on: • policies for A&A • selection of the Editors • financial aspects


• Argentina 2005 - Asociación Argentina de Astronomia

• Austria 1981 - Astronomische Kommission der Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

• Belgium 1969 - Belgian National Committee for Astronomy

• Brazil 2006 - Sociedade Brasileira de Astronomia

• Bulgaria 2009 - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

• Chile 2006 - Sociedad Chilena de Astronomia

• Czech Republic 1992 - Czech National Committee of the IAU

• Croatia 2008 - Ministry of Science, Education and Sport

• Denmark 1969 - Statens Naturvidenskabelige Forskningsråd

• Estonia 1998 - Estonian National Committee for Astronomy

• Finland 1969 - National Committee for Astronomy

• France 1969 - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

• Germany 1969 - Rat Deutscher Sternwarten

• Greece 1974 - Greek National Committee for Astronomy

• Hungary 1994 - Hungarian Academy of Sciences

• Italy 1972 - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

• Lithuania 2010 - Lithuanian Astronomical Society

• The Netherlands 1969 - Nationaal Committee voor Astronomie

• Poland 1993 - Polish Academy of Sciences

• Portugal 2006 - Sociedade Portuguesa de Astronomia

• Slovak Republic 1992 - Slovak National Committee of the IAU

• Spain 1988 - Secr.Gen. de Politica Cientifica y Tecnologica

• Sweden 1969 - Vetenskapsraadet

• Switzerland 1970 - Swiss Academy of Sciences

24 countries collaborate to A&A


Board of Directors

Sponsoring organizations of A&A:

Société Française de Physique - Société Chimique de France - Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles - Société Française d’Optique

UdPPC

Our shareholders today: learned societies

Created in 1920, among the founders: • Nobel Prizes: Marie Curie, Louis de Broglie, Jean Perrin

• Albert 1er, Prince of Monaco - Louis Lumière - Paul Langevin, etc.

Our “DNA”: Physicist


EDP Sciences Group today

55 Academic journals

STM

7.000+ articles

published per year

55 Academic journals

STM

7,000+ articles

published per year

An Open Access

Platform

Magazines for

practitioners

Dental, Pharmacy, Audiology,

etc.

A Web Platform

200,000+ articles in

archive

Books

500 books, mainly in French &

now English

80+ new titles/year

Publication of

proceedings in OA

50+ new proceedings/

year

• A&A is one of 4 leading Astronomy Journals with a global author and readership.

• Exchange of researchers and choice of journals across the Atlantic (A&A, ApJ, MNRAS, AJ).

• A consistently high impact factor during the last years.

.

A&A Today – A success story


2,79

2,281

3,781 3,843 3,694

4,223 3,971

4,259 4,153 4,179 4,41 4,587

5,084

4,479 4,378

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

A&A IMPACT FACTOR

First choice for the publication of special features such as: Planck and Hershel missions, soon ROSETTA

©ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA



At the forefront of innovation: • FundRef, ORCID, • Links inside articles to the Astrophysics Source Code Library

(ASCL) • Increasing exchanges between A&A and arXiv • Rich-media (Video, 3D models), Twitter account • Mobile version, ePub version for tablets • Links to object databases at CDS

A&A 2.0!



High usage, wide dissemination and global authorship: • Downloads, average per month:

645,413 (Abstracts) 224,115 (Full-text)

• Read in over 210 countries around the world

• Press release service

• Language editing service

1969 to 2015: from a European to an International journal!



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1,20% 0,70%

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

A&A - Evolution of the subscription price

10% pages more

…for a moderate price


Green Open Access

Sections in Full Open Access

Archives in Free Access All articles published in the other sections of the Journal become freely accessible 12 months after publication.

Open Access Option

Latest articles FREE


and with a strong Open access policy

The A&A Scientific Writing School SWYA

Aim: To help PhD students to express their scientific results through correct and efficient science writing.

Supportive of young researchers:

4th edition will held in 2016

A&A also part of the IAU XXIX GA course science writing (A&A, AJ,ApJ, MNRAS, PAJS)

Chinese 1

Iranian 1

Iraqi 1

Italian 1 Macedonian

1 Polish 1

Portuguese 1

Belgian 2

Chilean 2

Greek 2

Indian 2

Russian 2

Turkish 2

Czech Rep 3

Estonian 3

Hungarian 3

Swedish 3

Spanish 4

Astronomy & Astrophysics

International, innovative and collaborative

Serving the global astronomy community since 1969

Thank you for your attention

Paris – Les Ulis – London – Casablanca

Dr Agnès Henri Publishing Director [email protected]
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