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Episciences Release notes
Version of October, 5th 2020 Bug Fixes #41: Bug fixes on automatic reminders, especially those related to requests for revisions #287: corrected a duplicate display of some email templates; some custom templates were not translated #304 : correction of a bug related...
A shared governance and a sustainable financing model for HAL
On July 16, the Open Science Steering Committee approved the evolution of the financial contribution made by the French scientific institutions with a HAL portal as well as a new governance scheme for the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD), the service...
Episciences release notes
Change log of the 29th July 2020 version Bug Fixes # 286: For security reasons, if the password is changed the user sessions are terminated and a new connection must take place (bug reported by "m.usman122 khan") #285: Editorial secretaries, administrators and editors...
A new feature in Episciences: copy editing
The editorial teams managing a journal with Episciences now have access to the copy editing feature. The accepted article can now be formatted with the journal template either by the author or by a member of the journal team from the sources provided by the author. A...
Episciences release notes
Change log of version released on June 26, 2020 Bug fixes #113 Emails: Messages sent from Episciences do not fully respect the MIME standard + encoding problem (#163 ). #225: Restore the "Statistics View" Widget. #246: The review parameter "allow editors to modify...
COVID-19 : HAL eases access to scientific publications related to the epidemic
The CCSD is setting up on the HAL homepage a direct access to publications related to the COVID-19 epidemic. In order to create the best possible conditions for the intense effort led by the French research forces, the circulation of all scientific information must be...
From ProdInra and Irstea Publications to the HAL-INRAE portal
The HAL INRAE portal has opened this Monday March 23 and replaces the ProdInra and Irstea Publications institutional archives. The deposit and validation functionalities are available for the institute's researchers ; all the publications from ProdInra and Irstea...
A new director for the CCSD
2020 begins with a change at the head of the CCSD: Nathalie Fargier replaces Christine Berthaud who is retiring. Nathalie Fargier was previously the director of Persée, an unit which manages a portal for the dissemination of scientific publications of the same name....
Episciences Release notes
Release notes from 2020-02-17 Bug Fixes #216 Several bugs were fixed on the Datacite export format #194 When an editor invites a reviewer and changes the review delay, the localization of the date is kept #102 + #166 On the reviewing grids, if the grid was not...
The publication of HAL code: a first step towards open source
The CCSD took part on November 19 and 20 in the Sprint Open source organized by the #bluehats community. The #bluehats community brings together all people who contributed contributing to free projects published and/or used by the French public administration. For...
Episciences Release notes
Release notes from 2019-09-09 Security Email Attachment files have to be downloaded, they are no longer displayed on the browser, whatever the file type HTML files must be downloaded, they are not displayed in the browser Enhancements related to user session...
HAL : more than 600 000 !
The number of submissions to HAL remained strong in the first half of 2019 with 46,936 deposits as of June 30 - an average of 7,822 deposits per month. In the beginning of July, HAL passed the threshold of 600,000 deposits with attached files. 11529 of these...
The CCSD welcomes the international community of the open repositories
From May 21st to 23rd, the CCSD will be pleased to welcome in Lyon the general assembly and the annual conference of COAR. COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) is a confederation founded in 2009 in order to facilitate a global repository Community of...
Hcéres sets up an open archive portal on HAL
Hcéres has opted for the HAL multidisciplinary open archive platform for archiving and disseminating its publications. Created jointly by the CCSD and Hcéres, the portal benefits from the multicriteria search technology provided by the platform. The Hcéres open...
Episciences release notes
Release notes from release 2019-03-17 New features and changes The DOI has been added to the list of metadata transferred to arXiv after an article is published Pagination control features have upgraded in the dashboards. There should be performance enhancements when...
HAL in 2018 : 10 deposits per hour
This post is an overview of HAL's activities in 2018. The following statistics show the investment of all in sharing and disseminating publications and scientific data. This reflects the activity of the researchers who upload their files and use the dedicated...
Episciences release notes
Release notes from release 2019-01-21 New features and changes Sending a message to a reviewer: the email sent is added to the log Free text comments: line feeds and tabs are kept as formatting When sending an email, if the message bounces back due to an error, the...
Episciences release notes
Release notes from release of December 2018 New features and changes Version numbering: the document version numbering follows the layout of the article's archive. For more information see FAQ entry : What are the document numbering conventions? Bug Fixes Dashboard:...
HAL: optimization of the referencing and of the dissemination of the contents
The visibility of open repositories was the theme of a meeting organized by the Couperin consortium on November 20th. The presentations of the open access content aggregators such as BASE or CORE, or that of the ScanR search engine shows the essential place of HAL as...
Episciences release notes
Release notes from release 2018-11-06 New features and changes Sending a temporary version: the author may add a new version Ask for other editors opinion: they are selected by default, unless they are already assigned to the article User dashboard: access to an...
How to get rid of bots that consult your deposits …
For those who explore the statistics of consultations or downloads of their submissions in HAL, it is sometimes surprising to see peaks of traffic that are often inexplicable. A sudden surge in popularity of the topic covered or the referencing of the article in a...
The deposit of software is now available on HAL and the portals
After a fruitful collaboration between Software Heritage (SWH), Hal-Inria and the CCSD, HAL is opening up to a new type of scientific data: software. Researchers now have the possibility to deposit the source code while contributing to Alexandria’s library of...
Episciences: a survey to better know our users
The CCSD welcomed for 6 months Claire Dandieu as part of her internship for her Master 2 Digital Publication at the Enssib. She worked particularly on the Episciences platform: she conducted a survey of the editors-in-chief of the 11 overlay journals currently hosted...
Current events for the open science in France
The news of the beginning of July is rich for the open science in France and places the services of the CCSD in the forefront. The French Minister of the Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Mrs Frédérique Vidal, attended the LIBER annual congress to present the...
Episciences release notes
Release notes from release 2018-09-10 New features and changes Accounts between the 3 major platforms (SciencesConf ; Episciences ; HAL) operated by the CCSD are shared. Accounts may now be merged by the CCSD team. If you need to merge accounts send a request to the...