Highlights

2022

First meeting of the International Scientific Council, body of the CCSD governance
Creation of the HAL Ambassadors program
Kick-off of the HALiance EquipeX project
Launch of the new HAL webdesign

2021

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
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
The 20 years of HAL are celebrated during a ceremony organized on November 24 at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon

2020

The Committee for the Open Science adopts a new funding model for HAL and a new shared governance model for the CCSD
Migration in HAL of Prodinra, the institutional archive of the INRA
HAL is interconnected with ORCID. It is  referenced by ORCID as a database that researchers can use to import their works

2019

The CCSD welcomes the annual conference and general meeting of COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) in Lyon from May 21 to 23
Co-organization of the ELPUB 23rd International Conference on Electronic Publishing, from June 2 to 4, in Marseille
CNRS policy of incentive to deposit in HAL: researchers activity reports  will only be fed by the publications present in HAL

2018

The National Plan for Open Science supports HAL in the implementation of its axis 1: increasing open access to publications
INRA joins the CNRS, INRIA and Lyon University as the CCSD’s tutelles

2017

Creation of the steering committee for Episciences.org
Management of the calls for projects in SciencesConf through SciencesCall
New deposit interface in HAL
Creation of the triplestore data.archives-ouvertes
The HAL deposits are displayed in Pubmed (linkout service)

2016

Partnership with INIST for a video tutorial “How to deposit in HAL”
HAL becomes part of the Ministry’s research infrastructure roadmap

2015

Partnership with INIST for checking deposits
HAL-SHS is 10 years old

2014

Episciences.org, hosting platform for overlay journals
CCSD becomes a combined service unit (UMS3668) with tutelles CNRS, INRIA and Lyon University
Launching of HAL v3

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

MediHAL : open archive for depositing visual data
Isidore : research platform allowing access to humanities and social sciences digital data
Pastel : ParisTech online thesis server joins HAL
Sciencesconf.org : web platform for managing scientific conferences

2009

Agreement with CINES for long-term archiving

2007

RePec : 1st release  in ReDIF format (Research Documents Information Format)

2006

1er deposit sent to Pubmed Central
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

2005

HAL-SHS : open archive dedicated to Human and Social Sciences
HAL-INSERM : institutional open archive of INSERM
HAL-INRIA : institutional open archive of INRIA

2003

HAL v.2 allows the creation of portals and collections
HAL-IN2P3 : open institutional archive of Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics)
EduTice : Education et Technologies de l’information et de la communication

2002

Archivesic open archive in Library and information sciences
1st deposit in arXiv

2001

TEL : thèses-en-ligne for self-archiving thesis and habilitations à diriger des recherches (HDR)
HAL (Hyper articles en ligne), multidisciplinary open archive

2000

Foundation of the Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD), service unit of CNRS (UPS 2275)