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New governance of the CCSD: first milestone for a partners assembly
The institutions having a HAL portal are solicited to designate their representative in order to form a partners assembly, one of the four bodies of the new governance of the CCSD. It is the purpose of the mail sent in April to the persons in charge of universities,...
This is the end for Héloïse
The informations about the self-archiving policies of French scholarly journals are now available only on the Sherpa/Romeo and Mir@bel websites: the Héloïse service is now closed The landscape of open access and open science has dramatically changed since 2011, when...
Integrate Episciences into EOSC’s catalog of services
Episciences is a partner of OpenAIRE for a response to the European call for projects INFRA-EOSC which aims to increase the service offer of the European open science cloud (EOSC) portal. And, good news, the OpenAIRE Nexus project has been selected! Episciences will...
Online training: you’ve been there in 2020!
Last year, 928 of you took the online training courses offered by the CCSD! Intended for researchers, designed and animated by the 5 persons of the support and assistance team, these one-hour online sessions are a great success. They bring together about twenty...
The French National Research Agency (ANR) chooses HAL to promote the researches it funds
The French National Research Agency (ANR) relies on HAL for the implementation of its policy to promote open access to publications by launching the HAL-ANR portal. This portal gathers and displays the publications of the research projects it funds. Any project...
Episciences release notes
Version of December, 2 2020 Bug Fixes #317: Correction of a bug on the display of the names of authors imported from HAL #318: Fixed a bug in the search engine filter when several years were selected. #324: fixed a bug when accessing attachments without an extension...
The HALOWIN project selected by the French National Fund for Open Science
The French Committee for open science has published the results of the call for proposals for the National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) and the CCSD is pleased to see its HALOWIN project selected. HALOWIN stands for HAL Open Workflows and Interoperability. But what...
Complete your ORCID record with your HAL deposits
What if you could complete your ORCID record with your publications deposited in HAL? This is now possible, even if you do not (yet) have an account in HAL. HAL is now referenced by ORCID as a database that researchers can use to import their works. ORCID (Open...
Self-archiving policy: evolution of the display of publishers’ policies
The Sherpa/Romeo website has been redesigned this summer: the new interface aims at displaying the open access policies of the publishers, and not only those concerning self-archiving. To remain an efficient help while depositing, HAL had to adapt to this new display ...
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...
New governance of the CCSD: first milestone for a partners assembly
The institutions having a HAL portal are solicited to designate their representative in order to form a partners assembly, one of the four bodies of the new governance of the CCSD. It is the purpose of the mail sent in April to the persons in charge of universities,...
This is the end for Héloïse
The informations about the self-archiving policies of French scholarly journals are now available only on the Sherpa/Romeo and Mir@bel websites: the Héloïse service is now closed The landscape of open access and open science has dramatically changed since 2011, when...
Integrate Episciences into EOSC’s catalog of services
Episciences is a partner of OpenAIRE for a response to the European call for projects INFRA-EOSC which aims to increase the service offer of the European open science cloud (EOSC) portal. And, good news, the OpenAIRE Nexus project has been selected! Episciences will...
Online training: you’ve been there in 2020!
Last year, 928 of you took the online training courses offered by the CCSD! Intended for researchers, designed and animated by the 5 persons of the support and assistance team, these one-hour online sessions are a great success. They bring together about twenty...
The French National Research Agency (ANR) chooses HAL to promote the researches it funds
The French National Research Agency (ANR) relies on HAL for the implementation of its policy to promote open access to publications by launching the HAL-ANR portal. This portal gathers and displays the publications of the research projects it funds. Any project...
Episciences release notes
Version of December, 2 2020 Bug Fixes #317: Correction of a bug on the display of the names of authors imported from HAL #318: Fixed a bug in the search engine filter when several years were selected. #324: fixed a bug when accessing attachments without an extension...
The HALOWIN project selected by the French National Fund for Open Science
The French Committee for open science has published the results of the call for proposals for the National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) and the CCSD is pleased to see its HALOWIN project selected. HALOWIN stands for HAL Open Workflows and Interoperability. But what...
Complete your ORCID record with your HAL deposits
What if you could complete your ORCID record with your publications deposited in HAL? This is now possible, even if you do not (yet) have an account in HAL. HAL is now referenced by ORCID as a database that researchers can use to import their works. ORCID (Open...
Self-archiving policy: evolution of the display of publishers’ policies
The Sherpa/Romeo website has been redesigned this summer: the new interface aims at displaying the open access policies of the publishers, and not only those concerning self-archiving. To remain an efficient help while depositing, HAL had to adapt to this new display ...
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...
