Open Science network

The Committee for Open Science offers orientations and processes open science questions, boosts and guides actions in the matter of open science, and facilitates the expression and reporting of ideas, the commitment and contributions to work groups.

The CCSD takes part in the “Publications” college, as well as several work groups.

Work groups at CoSO

User club CasuHAL

Created in 2016, Casuhal is an association gathering HAL users, mainly advanced users such as portal administrators, collection managers and structure referents. The purpose of the association is to:

promote the exchange of information between institutions that use HAL through the sharing of information, documentation and resources of members;
support requests for development that meet the needs of its members in particular.

The CCSD asks Casuhal members to participate in the working groups it leads.

COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories)

Created in 2009, COAR is an international association that brings together 151 members: research organisations, universities, libraries and funding agencies from around the world. It aims to create an international archive network, to align policies and best practices so as to enhane the visibility of research works.

The CCSD is a member of COAR; in 2019, it organized the association’s annual congress and assembly. The CCSD and COAR are partners for the Directory of Open Access Preprint Directory.

N. Fargier, the CCSD Director, is member of the executive board (2025-2028).

Mir@bel

Mir@bel is a database of scholarly journals created in 2009.

It produces a referencing service that facilitates access to journals by locating the online content of more than 10,000 journals. It is built on a network of almost 80 institutions.

The CCSD is a partner of Mir@bel for the referencing of Episciences journals.

Couperin

Couperin (United consortium of higher education and research establishments for access to digital publications) is a consortium serving as a negociation network and an expert in electronic library resources of higher education and research in France.

The CCSD takes part in the Open Science work group (GTSO), as a member of the “Open Archives” subgroup (GTAO): the group works on technical specifications and recommandations for the proper functioning of an open archive. It also works on open archive metrics, in collaboration with the team ezPARSE/ezMESURE, in order to harmonise and offer means of comparison.

Crossref

Crossref is a not-for-profit membership organization that exists to make scholarly communications better. They rally the community; tag and share metadata; run an open infrastructure; and make tools and services—all to help put scholarly content in context.

CCSD is member of CrossRef to assign DOIs to articles published on the Episciences platform.

OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe)

OpenAIRE is a European project supporting Open Science.

On the one hand OpenAIRE is a network of dedicated Open Science experts promoting and providing training on Open Science. On the other hand OpenAIRE is a technical infrastructure harvesting research output from connected data providers; as such, it harvests HAL as a whole.

OpenAIRE aims to establish an open and sustainable scholarly communication infrastructure responsible for the overall management, analysis, manipulation, provision, monitoring and cross-linking of all research outcomes.

The CCSD partners up with openAIRE through several work groups.

Work groups at OpenAIRE

ORCID

HAL is referenced by ORCID as a database that researchers can use to import their works: researchers can complete their ORCID record with their HAL deposits in just one click.

The setting up of this feature in HAL is part of the membership of the CNRS to ORCID. ORCID is a non profit organization whose business model is based on free access for researchers, and on membership for organizations. This provides them with a set of tools and services based on ORCID data and APIs.

Joining a consortium is a way for organizations to benefit from preferential membership rates.

The creation of the “ORCID France” consortium in november 2019 is one of the actions defined in the National Plan for Open Science (July 2018): be part of a sustainable, European and international dynamic (axis 3).

Created in November 2019, the ORCID France consortium federates the membership of institutions at a national lovel, and aims to promote the adoption of the ORCID identifier by researcheers, in order to consolidate their digital identity and the visibility of their work.

It currently has 35 members; the CCSD is a member of the ORCID France consortium governance, as an observer.