The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) set out the three levers that an open infrastructure must act on to gain the trust of the wider scientific community: governance, funding and protection of community interests. This page presents the self-assessment of the HAL+ infrastructure, which demonstrates its commitment to these principles.
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, Sciencesconf and Episciences.
Summary
? Compliant ? In progress ⚪️ Not applicable
Governance
? Coverage across the scholarly enterprise
? Stakeholder Governed
? Non-discriminatory participation or membership
? Transparent governance
? Cannot lobby
? Living will
? Formal incentives to fulfil mission & wind-down
Sustainability
? Time-limited funds are used only for time-limited activities
⚪️ Goal to generate surplus
⚪️ Goal to create financial reserves
? Revenue based on services, not data
? Mission-consistent revenue generation
Insurance
? Open source
? Open data (within constraints of privacy laws)
? Available data (within constraints of privacy laws)
? Patent non-assertion
Governance
Coverage across the scholarly enterprise
? HAL+ is multi-disciplinary and is aimed at all those involved in the research process, whether they are researchers, institutions, funding bodies, publishers or infrastructures.
Stakeholder Governed
? Inclusive and shared, the governance is open to all HAL+ stakeholders and international in scope. For the HAL Open Archive, there are four bodies: a steering committee, an orientation committee, a partners’ assembly and an international scientific council. For Episciences, governance consists of a Steering Committee and three disciplinary scientific boards.
Non-discriminatory participation or membership
? The governance is that of the CCSD: the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the 3 supervisory bodies (CNRS, Inria and INRAE) are represented on it. Each institution that contributes financially to the development of the HAL open archive appoints its representative to the Assembly of Partners, the governance body. For Episciences, three disciplinary scientific boards guarantee the impartiality of the evaluation of applications and the scientific quality of the journals in their respective fields.
Transparent governance
? The names and functions of the members of the committees that make up the governance are posted on the CCSD website and on the Episciences website.
Cannot lobby
? No lobbying activities are undertaken by HAL+ and the CCSD.
Living will
? Created by the CNRS in 2001, HAL is supported by national research organisations (Inria, INRAE) and by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The CNRS archiving plan foresees the transfer of all data to the national archives in case the CCSD and the HAL are closed.
? The CCSD 2024 Action Plan includes a study on the long-term preservation of articles published on Episciences, which are hosted in archives that do not guarantee the longevity of publications.
Formal incentives to fulfil mission & wind-down
? HAL+ is included in the National Strategy for Research Infrastructures (5th edition of the roadmap, 2021). HAL is supported by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. It is included in the two national open science plans for opening up publications (2018-2021 and 2021-2024 editions), as well as in the open science roadmaps of the CCSD supervisory bodies.
Sustainability
Time-limited funds are used only for time-limited activities
? The economic model of the infrastructure is based on recurrent support from the Ministry and the supervisory bodies of the CCSD, as well as annual contributions from partner institutions using the portal service. It also includes project-based funding (e.g. HALiance, a 5-year project funded by the French National Research Agency) and participatory funding (Couperin Consortium, SCOSS).
Goal to generate surplus
⚪️ Not applicable. As a service financed by public bodies, HAL+ is not intended to generate surplus funds.
Goal to create financial reserves
⚪️ Not applicable.
Mission-consistent revenue generation
? The management and development of HAL+ are part of the CCSD’s mission.
Revenue based on services, not data
? Data may be used without financial compensation. The amount of the contribution of the institutions that have a HAL portal is indexed to the number of researchers of the institution.
Insurance
Open source
? HAL+ uses many free tools used by the research community such as LINUX Debian, Proxmox, Mysql, Solr, Apache, Nginx. The Episciences source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. The user documentation is licensed under CC-BY.
? As part of the HALiance project, the HAL code is currently being migrated to the Symfony open source framework.
Open data (within constraints of privacy laws)
? The metadata is available under a CC0 licence. Licences are associated with the submitted files in accordance with authors’ rights.
Available data (within constraints of privacy laws)
? HAL data can be harvested via the OAI-PMH server, accessible via open APIs. Monthly dumps of structured metadata in rdf format are available for the data.hal.science triplestore. Episciences data can be harvested via the OAI-PMH server, accessible via open APIs.
Patent non-assertion
? HAL+ does not hold any patent. If we were to apply for a patent, the CCSD is prepared to give a non-assertion undertaking that would prevent the community from using the HAL+ code or infrastructure.