Infoscience

Infoscience contributes to EPFL’s commitment to open access to scientific information (Green Open Access).

According to LEX 3.5.1, “EPFL authors must deposit all their publications in the institutional repository Infoscience and provide access in accordance with the conditions imposed by the publishers. This deposit must be made no later than 6 months after the publication date following the principle of Green Open Access.”

The community is encouraged to report and submit their various research findings to benefit from wide dissemination, free distribution, and long-term archiving.

• Share your research with a wide audience and contribute to the development of science.
• Increase the visibility of your research on the main search tools, such as Google Scholar or OpenAIRE Explore.
• Meet the Open Science requirements of EPFL and funding agencies by legally disseminating your publications and other academic output (Green Open Access).
• Get persistent identifiers for accessing and citing your research works. Each submission receives a Handle, and a DOI can be assigned under certain conditions.
• Get usage statistics to measure the impact of your output (citations, downloads, views).
• Take advantage of the import-export features to simplify the submission and sharing of your work, optimising your time and effort.
• Highlight your scientific contributions by customizing your researcher profile.
• Facilitate the exchange of knowledge within the academic community.
• Benefit from the long-term preservation of your publications in a reputable institutional repository.

Infoscience…

• disseminates and highlights the output of research carried out at EPFL, in the various disciplines, laboratories and research centres
• is the central platform for reporting publications and academic work produced at EPFL.
• is part of EPFL’s commitment as a public teaching and research institution, open to society, to facilitate the legal dissemination, sharing and promotion of knowledge developed and taught at EPFL.
• is one of the main instruments for implementing EPFL’s Open Access policy (Green Open Access).
  
• contributes to the visibility, promotion and enhancement of academic production and access to a wide audience, without financial barriers.
• serves as a trusted source for the production of reports and analyses, such as the annual academic reports and Graph Search.

Infoscience offers three main sections reflecting EPFL’s missions:

• Research (bringing together scientific contributions by faculties, institutes, and laboratories)
• Education (including theses, student works and projects, and teaching resources)
• Innovation (focusing on patents).

Research results are visible to everyone in Infoscience.

Authenticated EPFL users benefit from extended access to certain content:

• restricted and embargoed documents by requesting access from the submitter.
• consultation of more extensive statistics (profile and related publications).

Non-EPFL users can request access to a restricted access or embargoed file via the Request a copy form.

EPFL Researcher? According to LEX 3.5.1, “EPFL authors must mandatorily deposit all their publications in the institutional archive Infoscience and provide access to them in accordance with the conditions imposed by the publishers. This deposit must be made no later than 6 months after the publication date following the principle of Green Open Access.”

In addition to your publications, you can also submit other scientific works (e.g. your research data). => See the Help page related to Document types and collections.

You can submit your work yourself, either manually or using imports from external sources (Web of science, etc.). You can also appoint a collaborator.

• In accordance with LEX 3.5.1, EPFL authors must deposit publications and works (scientific or academic) no later than 6 months after the publication date.

• At least one EPFL author must be present in the list of authors of the publication.

• An EPFL member who is the scientific editor of a publication may submit either the texts he/she has written (introduction, etc.) or the entire work (provided that the various authors agree).

Students cannot directly deposit their publications; they must seek approval from their PI and/or faculties.

The following documents are exclusively deposited by the Infoscience team:

• EPFL doctoral theses (in collaboration with the Doctoral School)
• Patents (in collaboration with the Technology Transfer Office)

For more information, refer to the charter.

Infoscience collects a large variety of scientific and academic output:

• articles published in scientific journals

• papers, posters and presentations prepared for conferences

• books and book chapters

• preprints

• reports

• doctoral thesis

• students works

• datasets

• code

• educational resources

• images and videos

• patents.

For more information, please visit the corresponding page Document types

Each record:

• contains descriptive metadata ;
• provides information on the type of access offered (open access, embargo, restricted access…), the file version (preprint, accepted version, final version) and the peer review status ;
• displays bibliometric indicators (number of citations, alternative metrics), as well as usage statistics (views and downloads).

For more information, refer to the data model.

The platform is fed and enriched:

– on the one hand, via manual submissions made by the authors themselves (self-archiving), whose bibliographic content and file dissemination conditions are checked before being published;

– and on the other hand, via imports from internal sources (IS-ACADEMIA, for example) and sources external to EPFL (bibliographic databases and other platforms).