EDP Sciences (Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences) is a French scientific publisher with a century of history: it was founded in 1920 as the Société du Journal de Physique et Le Radium by the Société Française de Physique, with Marie Curie, Paul Langevin, and Louis de Broglie among its founders. For most of its life it was owned by a consortium of French learned societies; in 2019 it was acquired by China Science Publishing & Media (CSPM), the publishing arm of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Its editorial operations remain headquartered in Les Ulis, near Paris.

Today EDP Sciences publishes roughly 50+ international journals across physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, materials, and the life sciences, alongside books (EDP Open) and the Web of Conferences proceedings platform. Its best-known title is Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A), one of the world's leading astronomy journals, and it is internationally recognised as a pioneer of the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model - a route to open access that charges authors nothing.

• Astronomy - Astronomy & Astrophysics plus the Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate.
• Mathematics - the ESAIM series (COCV, Probability and Statistics, M2AN), RAIRO - Operations Research, and Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena, several run with SMAI and other French societies.
• Physics - EDP is a co-publisher of the European Physical Journal (EPJ) series with Springer and the Italian Physical Society, and is the historical home of the Journal de Physique series (now merged into EPJ titles).
• Life sciences and health - Parasite, Aquatic Living Resources, Radioprotection, and sponsored titles such as Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems.
• Engineering and materials - Mechanics & Industry, Matériaux & Techniques, Acta Acustica, and others.
• Proceedings and books - the Web of Conferences platform and the EDP Open book programme.

EDP Sciences offers several OA routes, and - unusually among mid-size publishers - many of its highest-profile titles are open access with no author-facing APC:

• Subscribe to Open (S2O) - subscription income from libraries is used to open each year's volume to everyone; if renewals hold, authors pay nothing. A&A has been S2O since 2022 (confirmed open access again for 2026), Radioprotection since 2024, and six mathematics journals run under the model.
• Gold OA with APC - fully-OA titles such as Parasite and the Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate charge a per-article APC.
• Sponsored no-fee OA - titles like Acta Acustica (European Acoustics Association) and Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems (French biodiversity agency) are free for both authors and readers.
• Hybrid and Green OA - remaining subscription titles offer per-article OA options and permit self-archiving; check each journal's policy page.

Licences are typically CC BY (some titles offer CC BY-NC). Authors from Research4Life Group A countries publish free of charge, and discounted APCs apply under specific institutional arrangements - always check the journal's own price page before submitting.

• Default model: single-anonymized peer review on most EDP Sciences journals, with independent reviewers reporting to the Editor-in-Chief.
• Editorial standards: journals follow COPE-aligned ethics guidance; A&A operates a structured, board-supervised editorial process well regarded in the astronomy community.
• Turnaround: varies significantly by title - consult each journal's page for current decision-time statistics rather than assuming a portfolio-wide figure.

1. Pick the journal. Match your paper's scope against the journal's aims on edpsciences.org.
2. Read the author guidelines. Each title has its own instructions covering length, structure, and reference style.
3. Prepare your manuscript. Use the journal's LaTeX or Word template - available on SciSpace - and the citation style the journal specifies (styles vary across the portfolio).
4. Submit online. Submission platforms vary by journal: A&A runs its own manuscript management system, while other titles use platforms such as Editorial Manager or ScholarOne - the journal's page tells you where to go.
5. Respond to review. Decisions are accept, revise, or reject; revisions are handled through the same platform.

EDP Sciences follows COPE guidance on publication ethics, including authorship changes, corrections, and retractions. Data availability expectations are set per journal. The publisher supports open science through S2O, CC licensing, and open proceedings, and its flagship journals maintain long-standing society and institutional oversight - A&A answers to a multi-country board of sponsoring astronomy institutions.