Our team also offers two levels of free training in French. Training seminars are held regularly in videoconference or in-person in Paris and Marseille. Learn more or register.

Training seminars are occasionally held in Spain and Germany by our partners. Contact us for more information.

Finally, we also monitor articles published on Hypotheses daily as this allows us to contact you at times with recommendations or with suggestions for changes, such as correct copyright practice, help structuring your content, or the appearance of your blog.

If you have questions specific to your blog (application, catalog, password, etc.), our team is available at hypotheses@openedition.org.

Indexing & Rankings

By publishing your content on Hypotheses, you are choosing a platform that offers high visibility, much higher than most blogs could achieve through private hosting.

Hypotheses’ natural indexing ensures that your blog and posts will always appear high in search engine rankings. In addition, your ranking will be higher the more you publish, the more carefully you structure your content (by assigning categories and keywords), and the more you share your publications (by linking from other websites or posting on social media).

Indeed, promotion and editorialization of your work by the Hypotheses team also help improve your blog’s ranking.

Security & Permanency

Starting a blog on Hypotheses means guaranteed maximum security for you, your readership, and your publications.

First, we take measures to prevent anyone from hacking your blog (although it is still up to you to take certain precautions, such as choosing a strong password.) Hypotheses also uses anti-spam software to prevent undesirable messages taking over your comments section.

Second, all content that you publish on Hypotheses is regularly backed up and stored at the CNRS IN2P3 Computing Center. Our infrastructure thus ensures permanency for your articles, so that they can be cited even if you decide to stop updating your blog. If you do stop, your blog will become an archive and, as such, will continue to have a place within Hypotheses.

Finally, when you start a blog on our platform, your personal information is guaranteed to stay protected. You remain the owner of it, as well as of all your content.

Scientific Relevance

Hypotheses is a platform for academic blogs for all Humanities and Social Sciences. Without restricting your editorial freedom, our team works to ensure that all blogs fit this description.

Applications for new blogs are reviewed by our team and by the Hypotheses' Scientific Board. The Board examines the most unusual applications, those that fall just at the borders of our scientific perimeter (in particular, blogs dealing with interdisciplinary projects). Application processing times can be quite long, but this helps ensure the relevance of all blogs on Hypotheses.

Though we are not able to validate the science of every post published on Hypotheses, our team does monitor posts daily to verify that the academic perimeter is respected, thus ensuring the quality of publications on our platform.

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