EGUsphere: the interactive community platform of the EGU

At the occasion of the 25-year anniversary of Interactive Open Access Publishing, the EGUsphere coordinators and the EGU editorial manager invite the EGU community to join an interactive presentation about EGUsphere’s past achievements and its vision for the future. Created in 2020 as a platform for conference material and preprints, EGUsphere continues EGU’s pioneering activities in terms of Interactive Open Access Publishing. EGUsphere hosts a diverse, inclusive, and systematic collection of contributions:

1) Conference material presented at EGU meetings can be publicly discussed by the scientific community beyond the meetings. All conference abstracts are fully citable with a unique digital object identifier (DOI) and can be amended by additional presentation material pertinent to EGU meetings (General Assembly, Plinius Conferences, Gallileo conferences).

2) EGUsphere allows for the submission and public discussion of preprints. Submission routes include (i) traditional preprints without peer review, (ii) preprints for potential publication in one of the EGU journals, and (iii) preprints posted on external servers that are eventually intended for journal publication upon peer review. This way, EGUsphere continues and expands the previous journal discussion forums that facilitated the interactive discussion between authors, referees and scientific community since 2001 to provide the transparency of the peer review process and rigorous quality control in scientific publishing.

Current and prospective authors, reviewers and editors will learn how to navigate the interactive public discussion phase on the platform.

Anyone interested in EGU’s transparent, community-driven and not-for-profit publication model, which has EGUsphere as an interactive platform, is welcome to join, ask questions, share ideas, explore ways to get involved at any career stage and help shape the platform’s future.