Annual report 2017

HAL

Number of deposits in the database in 2017 :

  • Files: 75 937 (+19%)
  • Annex: 1 812 (+74%)
  • Bibliographic records: 148 779 (+65%)
  • Files added to an existing bibliographic record: 19 118 (+41%)
  • 7 576 imports from STAR to TEL

Transfers of documents in 2017: 2 124 to arXiv, 2 992 to RePec
Total number of authors: 1 489 922 authors ; total number of idHAL author identifiers: 16 757 ; number of idHAL created in 2017: 5 474 ; number of idHAL with an ORCID: 5 084 ; number of idHAL with an idRef: 1 244

Institutional portals
  • 15 institutional portals were created: Université du Mans, Université Rennes 2, Université de Lyon, École des hautes études en santé publique, Université de Montpellier, Université Paris Lumières, Université de La Rochelle, INSA-Toulouse, Université de Poitiers, INS HEA (Institut national supérieur de formation et de recherche pour l’éducation des jeunes handicapés et les enseignements adaptés), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, EDF, Université de la Polynésie française, AgroSup Dijon, IMT Atlantique

Implementation of a portal specific offer: enhanced support and administrative follow-up service before and during the opening phase of a new portal, specific training for new administrators and their teams.

Collections : 971 collections were created, (laboratory collections:281 ; conference collections: 315)

5518 files reported in Pubmed (new linkout service proposed by Pubmed for institutional open archives)

Sciencesconf

Creation of SciencesCall, a new service dedicated to the management of call for projects

  • 5 162 Conférences = average of 130 new conferences per month since january 2017
  • 2 616 use the editorial management module : 125 635 abstracts, 37 244 fulltext
  • 2 152 transfers to HAL
  • 2 967 use the registration module : 212 574 registered
  • 954 use the payment module (629 with online payment)

Episciences

Creation of a steering committee for Episciences

11 journals:

  • dmtcs – Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
  • jdmdh – Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities
  • jips – Journal d’Interaction Personne-Système
  • math-universalis – Mathematica Universalis
  • hrj – Hardy-Ramanujan Journal
  • jimis – Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Sciences
  • lmcs – Logical Methods in Computer Science
  • epiga – Épijournal de Géométrie Algébrique
  • arima – Revue Africaine de la Recherche Africaine de la Recherche en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées
  • Slovo – Slovo
  • societes-plurielles – Sociétés plurielles

Total number of published articles: 2 884 articles

Developments

HAL
Deposit: implementation of a new interface
  • Ergonomics has changed: a single page divided into sections (file repository, document description, authors metadata and affiliations) with a easier navigation between the sections. Two types of display: a simple view that displays only required metadata and a detailed view with all the options and metadata (see Views).
  • Optimization of automatic retrieval of metadata to complete the repository from the pdf file, identifiers like the DOI, etc.
  • Less required metadata
  • Notifications are sent to warn the authors of new deposits.

The cited litterature is extracted from the pdf files: all the pdf files were processed (almost 500 000). Each record is analyzed to indicate if the fulltex is available in HAL or in free access.

Creation of the triplestore data.archives-ouvertes.fr : this portal gives access to the database containing structured data in RDF format. The database contains all the data present in the open archive HAL as well as in AuréHAL.

Evolution of the listing of research structures: the data model of the listing of research structures has been extended to take into account the groupings of laboratories and the groupings of institutions (COMUE for example)

Link with ORCID : the connection to HAL with an ORCID account is implemented.

Improvement of the SWORD import:

  • A record can be supplemented with a file (the import is no longer rejected because of duplicate detection).
  • It is possible to import on behalf of an another user (header On-Behalf-of).

Creation of an API for the affiliations: it allows to find the affiliation for an author’s name. This new feature was done in partnership with the Inria SEISM unit. The API is strongly related to the new deposit interface.

Submission and mail preferences: preference screens are now available to users and allow to predefine their submission preferences and set preferences for receiving email alerts. It is strongly related to the new deposit interface.

HAL and Dissemin : collaboration with the Dissemin team to allow SWORD import in HAL Dissemin detects papers behind pay-walls and invites their authors to upload them in an open repository.

DCTerms export : new export format for a HAL bibliographic record

Enhancement of the bibliographic records with a link to the existing fulltext in an open repository or through ISTEX.

New document type “software”: this new document type will be available in 2018. It is developped in partnership with Software Heritage

SciencesConf

Enhanced interoperability with HAL: links with AURéHAL during paper submission, SWORD imports of the papers in HAL

Development of a gateway with AzurColloque

Development of a new service, SciencesCall, dedicated to the management of the call for projects

Improvements of the ergonomics for managing a conference

Evolution of the evaluation grids

Episciences

General stabilization and code quality

Improvements of the ergonomics : new sorting options, more aids for form filling, improved autocompletion, new controls for the invitation of reviewers

Evolutions of the mailing module : attached documents, general ergonomics

Infrastructure and organization

  • Move to new premises
  • Separation of the test, pre-production and production platforms
  • Increased capacity of different services
  • Taking into account new services that are sometimes greedy for computing power

Presentations and communications

Open repositories, open access, HAL
  • A. Magron, Construire son identité numérique de chercheur : améliorer sa visibilité académique sur le Web, Bibliothèque Universitaire Grenoble, March 13th
  • A. Magron, HAL : archive ouverte commune et partagée, ENSSIB, May 2nd
  • C. Berthaud, 85ème congrès de l’ACFAS, co-organisation du colloque : Production et transmission des savoirs scientifiques à l’ère du numérique : acteurs, pratiques et outils. Communication présentée Hal Une archive ouverte dans le flux de la production scientifique, Mac Gill, Montréal, May 9th,
  • A. Magron, HAL : une archive ouverte au service des chercheurs et de leurs institutions, Panorama, organisations des projets IST de la recherche, ENSSIB, May 11th
  • S. Denoux, Présentation de la nouvelle interface de dépôt de HAL, Journée du club utilisateur CasuHAL, Lyon, 13 juin
  • A. Magron, HAL : archive ouverte commune et partagée, Séminaire ArchiRès, ENSA Strasbourg, July 5th
  • Y. Barborini, HAL et son environnement (poster), JDEV, July 7th
  • C. Berthaud, To facilitate the workflow and the innovation around an open archive : HAL-related applications (poster), 46th LIBER Annual Conference, Patras (Grèce), July 5-7th
  • Y. Barborini, S. Denoux et R. Tournoy, HAL : Présentation des évolutions 2017, Villeurbanne, September 20th
  • B. Kuntziger,HAL en 2017 : bilan de l’activité, et présentation des évolutions : nouvelle interface de dépôt, exposition des données en RDF, affichage de la littérature citée, modification du référentiel structures (URFIST de Nice, AMU), Marseille, September 21st
  • A. Magron, Déposer dans HAL pour valoriser ses publications, Open Access Week, Mon article en libre accès : Pourquoi ? Comment ? Quand ? PSL / Bibliothèque de l’ESPCI Paris, October 23th
  • B. Kuntziger, HAL en 2017 : bilan de l’activité, et présentation des évolutions : nouvelle interface de dépôt, exposition des données en RDF, affichage de la littérature citée, modification du référentiel structures Open Access Week Lyon 2017 : Lyon, October 24th
  • A. Magron, Réseaux sociaux académiques et archives ouvertes concurrents ou complémentaires ? Biennale du Numérique, ENSSIB, Table ronde : Les réseaux sociaux académiques et l’open access, Nobember 14th
  • A. Magron, Les nouveautés de HAL en 2017, Open science : partage des données et publication, Inist, Vandoeuvre, November 16th

 

  • Book Fair, Paris March 24-27th, BSN Stand.
  • ADBU Congress, Lille, October 17-19th, CCSD-Persée Stand
Publications
  • C. Berthaud et A. Magron, HAL : une archive tournée vers ses utilisateurs, Ar(abes)ques, n°84, février-mars 2017
  • B. Marmol et B. Kuntziger, AURéHAL et son IdHAL rassembleur, Ar(abes)ques, n°85, avril-mai-juin 2017
  • A. Magron,Utiliser les archives ouvertes pour valoriser ses travaux. L’exemple de HAL-SHS inC. Schnedecker et A. Aleksandrova (dir), Le doctorat en France : mode(s) d’emploi, Peter Lang, 2017

Training

HAL

Specific training courses organized for the administrators of new portals before the opening (maximum 10 people).

Furthermore, organization of 2 training courses for administrators, in october and december, in Paris.

All in all in 2017, the CCSD proposed 19 days of training for a portal management, aimed at 75 people.

We also trained 25 researchers on two half-days.

SciencesConf

Training courses co-organized with URFIST in Bordeaux and Toulouse
1 course organized by the CCSD : Dariah-Eu (Paris)

Communication and users documentation

  • English translation of the CCSD website, and since the summer of 2017, translation of the blog posts into English
  • Complete overhaul of the user documentation: WordPress website, search engine and FAQ section. The site was opened in September, integrating all the evolutions.
  • Collection of 6 users guides for SciencesConf