Mir@bel

Mir@bel refers to both the collaborative database designed to gather and make the most of the information available online about trade magazines and the network of professionals (documentalists, librarians, editors) who contribute to it.

Created in 2009, the knowledge base initially focused on SHS journals but has since been extended to other STM disciplines (Science, Technology, and Medicine) in line with the needs and investments of network members.

The Mir@bel prototype was presented at a "Workshop on sharing systems for reporting journal content in the humanities and social sciences" on 27 November 2008 in Lyon.

In 2020, under the guidance of the Committee for Open Science, Mir@bel formed a partnership with the Jisc team that developed the Sherpa Romeo database.

[4][5] In February 2022, a service for declaring publication policies was launched,[6][7] for French scientific journals, led by a moderation group within the Mir@bel network.

In 2020[8] and 2023,[9] the Mir@bel network has twice won the call for projects from the French National Open Science Fund (FNSO), under the coordination of Sophie Fotiadi.

Mir@bel has deployed a publication policy declaration service for French scientific journals, intended to feed the Sherpa Romeo database and, by extension, the HAL open archive.