HAL is a CoreTrustSeal certified repository
2025
2024
Launch of HAL monitor, a data visualisation tool
Episciences is supported by the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS)
Launch of HAL formation, a space that brings together educational resources and training
2023
Activation of the Deposit suggestion service in HAL (HALiance)
3rd session of the HAL Partners’ Assembly, held for the first time in person, in Villeurbanne. On top of an update on current affairs, a study day about “Scientific integrity and open archives” was organised
The 10 years of Episciences were celebrated during the meeting “Publishing another way: the epic of Episciences and overlay journals” organized in Lyon on March 30 and 31
2022
Launch of the new HAL webdesign
Kick-off of the HALiance EquipeX project
Creation of the HAL Ambassadors program
First meeting of the International Scientific Council, body of the CCSD governance
2021
HAL+ is certified as a research infrastructure in the Ministry’s roadmap
The 20 years of HAL are celebrated during a ceremony organized on November 24 at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon
The second National Plan for Open Science (2021-2024) renews its support to HAL for the implementation of its first axis: generalize the open access to publications
First session of the partners’ assembly, part of the new governance of the CCSD. It gathers the representatives of the 132 institutions having a HAL portal
2020
HAL is interconnected with ORCID. It is referenced by ORCID as a database that researchers can use to import their works
Migration in HAL of Prodinra, the institutional archive of the INRA
The Committee for the Open Science adopts a new funding model for HAL and a new shared governance model for the CCSD
2019
CNRS policy of incentive to deposit in HAL: researchers activity reports will only be fed by the publications present in HAL
Co-organization of the ELPUB 23rd International Conference on Electronic Publishing, from June 2 to 4, in Marseille
The CCSD welcomes the annual conference and general meeting of COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) in Lyon from May 21 to 23
2018
INRA joins the CNRS, INRIA and Lyon University as the CCSD’s tutelles
The National Plan for Open Science supports HAL in the implementation of its axis 1: increasing open access to publications
2017
The HAL deposits are displayed in Pubmed (linkout service)
Creation of the triplestore data.archives-ouvertes
New deposit interface in HAL
Management of the calls for projects in SciencesConf through SciencesCall
Creation of the steering committee for Episciences.org
2016
HAL becomes part of the Ministry’s research infrastructure roadmap
Partnership with INIST for a video tutorial “How to deposit in HAL”
2015
HAL-SHS is 10 years old
Partnership with INIST for checking deposits
2014
Launching of HAL v3
CCSD becomes a combined service unit (UMS3668) with tutelles CNRS, INRIA and Lyon University
Launch of Episciences.org, hosting platform for overlay journals
2013
Inter-institution partnership agreement signed by the Agence de Mutualisation des Universités et Etablissements (AMUE), the Conférence des Présidents d’Université (CPU), the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (CGE) and 22 other institutions.
2011
Heloïse, a service providing information on publishers’ policies about self-archiving articles
2010
Launch of Sciencesconf.org, web platform for managing scientific conferences
Pastel : ParisTech online thesis server joins HAL
Isidore, research platform allowing access to humanities and social sciences digital data
mediHAL, open archive for depositing visual data
2009
Agreement with CINES for long-term archiving
2007
RePec : 1st release in ReDIF format (Research Documents Information Format)
2006
Inter-institution protocol grouping around HAL all the universities and the grandes écoles as well as CEMAGREF, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, INRIA, Institut Pasteur and IRD
1st deposit sent to Pubmed Central
2005
HAL-INRIA, institutional open archive of INRIA
HAL-INSERM, institutional open archive of INSERM
HAL-SHS, open archive dedicated to Human and Social Sciences
2003
EduTice, Education et Technologies de l’information et de la communication
HAL-IN2P3, open institutional archive of Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics)
HAL v.2 allows the creation of portals and collections
2002
1st deposit in arXiv
Archivesic, open archive in Library and information sciences
2001
Foundation of HAL, multidisciplinary open archive
Foundation of TEL for self-archiving thesis and habilitations à diriger des recherches (HDR)
2000
Foundation of the Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD), service unit of CNRS (UPS 2275)