EPJplatforme

EPJplatforme is a software platform designed to support collaborative research management, publication workflows, and data sharing within academic and institutional settings. It provides a centralized environment for planning projects, coordinating teams, storing documents, and overseeing the lifecycle of research outputs from initial ideas to published results.

Its modular architecture comprises core services such as user management, project workspaces, document repositories, workflow engines, and analytics dashboards. The platform emphasizes role-based access control, versioning and provenance, commenting and annotations, task assignment, milestones, and audit trails. It supports interoperability through RESTful APIs, open standards for metadata, and authentication via OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect, enabling integration with external repositories, indexing services, and institutional single sign-on.

EPJplatforme can be deployed on premises or in the cloud and is designed for scalability across research groups of varying sizes. It includes a plug-in framework and configuration options that allow institutions to tailor workflows, metadata schemas, and reporting. The project is guided by a community-driven governance model, with input from institutions, developers, and end users, and is distributed as open-source software under a permissive license.

Historically, EPJplatforme emerged from a collaboration among universities and research libraries to address the need for transparent, reproducible research management. It has been used to manage project proposals, support collaborative writing, organize peer-review or internal review workflows, and integrate with institutional repositories and publication platforms.

By providing an integrated, standards-aware environment, EPJplatforme aims to streamline research administration while enhancing collaboration and accessibility of scholarly outputs.