HAL

HAL is a multidisciplinary open archive that allows research results to be shared in open access, whether published or not. It is at the service of researchers affiliated with academic institutions, whether public or private. In France, HAL is the national archive chosen by the French scientific and academic community for the open dissemination of its research results. The archive is also accessible to researchers affiliated with foreign academic institutions, whether public or private. HAL is both: an application (software), a unique and multidisciplinary warehouse ( list of fields ), and a shared platform which brings together more than 140 institutional archives from universities, major schools and research organizations, an open archive dedicated to the human and social sciences ( HAL-SHS ), an archive for the dissemination of doctoral theses and HDR (Accreditation to Direct Research), and an archive for visual and sound data ( mediHAL ). It is aimed at researchers and their institutions, covers all scientific fields and the different types of documents produced by research (articles published or not in peer-reviewed journals, scientific communications, theses, preprints, software, etc.). Created in 2001 on the initiative of physicist Franck Laloë, it is developed by the Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD), a support and research unit under the triple supervision of three public research organizations, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Inria and INRAE. It is supported by the two National Plans for Open Science and is labeled a research infrastructure by the Ministry. It constitutes a major axis of institutional policies for the opening of publications (see also the Place of HAL in the Open Science Barometer). HAL is registered in the Directory of Open Access Repositories ( OpenDOAR ), as well as in the Directory of Open Access Preprint Repositories ( DOAPR ). See also HAL, an open archive built jointly to share and disseminate scientific knowledge (political declaration June 2022) Governance¶ Inclusive and shared, governance is open to all HAL partner institutions and internationally oriented. It is composed of 4 bodies: a steering committee, an orientation committee, a Partners Assembly and an international scientific council. Economic model¶ The economic model is based on recurring support from the Ministry and CCSD supervisory authorities, annual contributions from partner institutions using the Portal service and project financing. HAL is free to use. The CCSD¶ The CCSD manages the HAL infrastructure. It ensures the administration of the hardware infrastructure, software development and application maintenance. It provides a response service to user requests and supports them by organizing training . It regularly carries out alignments with other repositories (ORCID, ROR, IdRef) and data cleaning. Source