HAL+ is an integrated infrastructure ensuring the worldwide dissemination and long-term preservation of research results. It is built on our three complementary platforms:
- HAL, the multidisciplinary open archive of French research and all its sub-portals, is the core engine of the infrastructure,
- Episciences for the publication of open access diamond journals,
- SciencesConf for the management of scientific events.
HAL+ is part of the French national strategy on research infrastructures.
Scientific information infrastructures are intended to be the first levers and spearheads of the French National Plan Open Science. They embody the fundamental principle that research is a common good that must be shared with all. They implement this principle of openness in each of their services and tools, as well as in the organisation of their governance. They have been designed and built to carry the dynamics of open science across all disciplines. (French national strategy on research infrastructures, 2021, updated 2022, p. 230).
The main functions of scientific information research infrastructures are:
- collecting and producing,
- certifying,
- ctructuring and interlinking,
- maximising impact,
- and ensuring sustainability.
They are at the interface between the scientific world, which produces knowledge, and the scientific world, which consumes knowledge, but also at the interface with non-academic audiences, in particular socio-economic, political and cultural audiences.