Marin Dacos, Director of the Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte (CLEO)

TGE ADONIS means "Integrated access to digital data and documents in the Humanities and Social Sciences". It is a French project aiming to build a large digital infrastructure, for scholarship and universities. It is both a technological challenge, because of new needs of complex integration from various services and interconnection of heterogeneous data, but above all a human networking effort to promote interoperability, mutualism and collaborative approach, for new questions and new interdisciplinary programs in the Humanities and Social Sciences. 

ADONIS is also involved in a European cooperation about digital infrastructure with the ESFRI Roadmap and DARIAH special project for Art and Humanities.

ADONIS is also aware that digital services, Internet, the Web, are not only more efficient tools, but also contemporary social and cultural constraints redefining deeply the context of Humanities. So, Digital Humanities are a very rich, but also controversial concept! 

After two years of conception, networking and two calls for innovative projects, ADONIS is preparing a MetaPortal, with at first step, a search engine dedicated to Human and Social Sciences, to help integrated access to services, data and documents.  

Revues.org is the longest standing platform for Humanities and Social Science journals in France. Since 1999, it has been open to quality periodicals looking to publish full-text articles online. More than 200 journals have already joined the platform in the domains of History, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Archaeology, Political Science, Philosophy, Literature, etc.
The platform is now run by the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo), a unit that brings together the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Graduate School of Social Sciences (EHESS), Provence University and Avignon University. The Cléo team is based in Marseille and Paris, and is made up of publishers, professionals in the fields of academic affairs and training, and IT application and web technology specialists.

The creation of Cléo, in 2007, has enabled the team to extend its services. It now offers a full range of solutions for electronic publishing and academic communication. Around the Revues.org platform andCalenda, the Social Science calendar, Cléo has developed new tools to accompany the research and publishing processes at every stage, from managing ideas to research dissemination towards the academic community via the selecting and publishing of texts.

While Revues.org was originally started to promote Francophone journals, today it also welcomes journals from outside France and journals produced, partially or totally, in other languages than French - English, Spanish, Portuguese, Basque... - a policy that has helped extend its reputation. Revues.org now has a high national and international profile and is in a position to offer member journals prime visibility.