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Daniel Lincot, Co-Editor-in-Chief of EPJ Photovoltaics, awarded top honour by the Académie des sciences

It is with great pleasure that we are able to share news of a recent award to Daniel Lincot, Director of Research at the CNRS, Institut Photovoltaïque d'Ile de France (IPVF) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of EPJ Photovoltaics. The prestigious ‘Prix Ivan Peychès’ has been given annually since 1979 to "reward work relating to applications in the study of non-metallic materials, particularly vitreous materials or solar energy or, failing that, in the field of applied sciences".

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EPJ Photovoltaics now indexed in Ei Compendex

We are pleased to announce that EPJ Photovoltaics is now indexed in the Ei Compendex , joining over 3,600 high-quality peer-reviewed journals. These journals cover a vast number of areas, such as, materials science, applied physics and optics, and instrumentation and nanotechnology.

“Ei Compendex is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world. It provides a truly holistic and global view of peer-reviewed and indexed publications with over 20 million records from 77 countries across 190 engineering disciplines.” ( Ei Compendex) Ei Compendex therefore provides reliable, high-quality information to engineering students and professionals.

“A new journal indexation is always something to be celebrated” commented Ariana Fuga, Senior Publishing Editor. “We are very proud that the hard work of our editors, reviewers, and authors is getting the recognition it deserves.”

EPJ Photovoltaics is an open access journal which publishes original, peer-reviewed papers focused in the field of photovoltaic solar energy conversion. It is a key journal in EDP Sciences’ portfolio of Materials Science, Engineering and Technology journals.

EPJ.org Mobile App available (May 2016)

EPJ Mobile App

EDP Sciences launches EPJ.org mobile app. Available and free to download from the iTunes App Store and from Google Play (for Android devices).

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Keep up with the latest research in the physical sciences with the EPJ Journals app. The app offers a news sections with lay summaries highlighting the findings reported in selected research papers, updates on the journals contents as soon as they are published, including research papers, reviews, colloquia and proceedings papers from all European Physical Journals (http://www.epj.org). You can search to find specific papers, navigate the journals contents by issue and find out about active calls for papers.

EPJ is a series of peer-reviewed journals dedicated to high quality science, edited by distinguished researchers from across the world, published by EDP Sciences, the Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer.

Note: if you are accessing through a mobile device connected through your institutional VPN, you will be able to access the full text PDFs if your institution has a subscription to the journals. Some of the EPJ journals are published in Open Access so they are fully accessible to anyone, from anywhere.

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EPJ Photovoltaics is now indexed by Scopus

EPJ Photovoltaics – EDP Sciences’ Open Access journal is now indexed by Scopus.

Scopus is widely recognised as one of the most comprehensive abstract and citation databases of peer reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.

Commenting on the news, Ariana Fuga, Senior Publishing Editor at EDP Sciences, said “A new journal indexation is always cause for celebration amongst our editorial team. It shows that the hard work of every contributor – from editors, to reviewers, and authors themselves – is being recognised and that the Journal is seen as an authoritative voice in the discipline, and will be more widely discoverable as a result.”

EDP Sciences signed an agreement to preserve Journals with Portico (April 2015)

EDP Sciences is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Portico to provide a permanent archive of the e-content for many of their key journals. Through this agreement, institutions participating in Portico’s E-Journal Preservation Service will be assured continued access to EDP Sciences content for generations of their scholars in the future.

Current data will be sent to Portico as soon as the e-journal is published, and a full list of the journals committed to the Portico archive is available at http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/who-participates-in-portico/participating-publishers/edp.

For more information read Press Release (PDF).