The Principles of an Open Science Infrastructure (POSI) set out the three levers that an infrastructure must act on to gain the trust of the wider scientific community: accountability (governance), funding (sustainability) and protection of the community’s interests. The CCSD publishes the self-assessment of the HAL+ infrastructure, which demonstrates its commitment to these principles.
Following the publication of HAL’s compliance with Plan S requirements for repositories (read the post), the CCSD continues its policy of transparency by presenting the HAL+ infrastructure’s commitment to adhere to the Principles of Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). POSI proposes a set of 16 concrete commitments that an organisation can make to build community trust. The set of principles was proposed in 2015 with the aim of encouraging the scientific community to critically evaluate the infrastructures on which it relies. The POSI have since been developed, discussed and adopted by organisations such as CrossRef, the ROR and the DOAJ (known as POSI Adopters).
Summary of commitments
(🟢 Compliant 🟠 In progress ⚪️ Not applicable)
Governance
🟢 Coverage across the scholarly enterprise
🟢 Stakeholder Governed
🟢 Non-discriminatory participation or membership
🟢 Transparent governance
🟢 Cannot lobby
🟠 Living will
🟢 Formal incentives to fulfil mission & wind-down
Sustainability
🟢 Time-limited funds are used only for time-limited activities
⚪️ Goal to generate surplus
⚪️ Goal to create financial reserves
🟢 Revenue based on services, not data
🟢 Mission-consistent revenue generation
Insurance
🟠 Open source
🟢 Open data (within constraints of privacy laws)
🟢 Available data (within constraints of privacy laws)
🟢 Patent non-assertion
Commitments marked “in progress” will be updated on the basis of the improvements implemented, in particular within the framework of the Equipex+ HALiance project.
Through its public services and its commitment to French and international open science initiatives, the CCSD contributes to building a more open, transparent and cumulative science for the benefit of researchers and society as a whole.