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HAL is 20 years old: a look back at the official ceremony which took place on 24 November 2021
HAL officially celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon on November 24. This was a great opportunity to bring together the CCSD team, the unit's supervisory bodies, the key players in its history, as well as the people and partners who...
A new branding for the CCSD and its services
As HAL celebrates its 20th birthday, the CCSD and its services get a new brand identity. New logos, new brand architecture and new visual concept: its a full makeover! The new logos of HAL, Episciences and Sciencesconf make the whole: the signs relate to specific...
National agreement with the publisher Elsevier: implementation of the imports in HAL
Provided for in the national licence agreement with Elsevier, a first batch of files supplied by the publisher will be soon imported in HAL to complete existing records. The "green OA" part of the agreement stipulates that Elsevier provides the Manuscript Author...
Enrich HAL’s repository of authors’ affiliations thanks to the ROR international identifier
It is now possible to use ROR (Research Organization Registry) identifiers when completing metadata related to research organizations whose data is stored in HAL's dedicated repository. This will contribute in the long run to the improvement of automatic affiliation...
Episciences release notes Episciences version 1.0.18
This summary only highlights recent changes and features, the full release notes with details and bug fixes are available online
Fostering scholarly journals in the digital world: opening the overlay platform Episciences to Social Sciences and Humanities
There exist several publication models for Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) journals to embrace the reality of digital dissemination, starting from retro digitization of print journals up to natively digital formats like OpenEdition Journals. With the 2016 Loi...
The first meeting of the partners assembly
The Partners Assembly met for the first time on 1 July. This was a key step in the implementation of the new governance of the CCSD: it was the opportunity to elect representatives to the Steering Committee as well to organise initial discussions. The Partners...
Episciences release notes Episciences version 1.0.11
Release notes for version 1.0.11 Version 1.0.11 has been released on June 30 2021 The main change in this version is the addition of Zenodo archive support You can now propose Zenodo as a source archive for preprint and published articles. You have to validate the...
CCSD : the summary of 2020
The CCSD publishes its 2020 activity report: let's take this opportunity to take a look at the past year. During 2020, the activity in HAL was intense: there were 167,000 new documents with files deposited in HAL! Before the summer, the finalization of the migration...
Changelog for version 1.0.2
Change log for version 1.0.2 This version is the first major update since the code was released under the GPL version 3 license on December 23, 2020. Although some of the corrections below were released online well before they were announced. The software code is...
When free access is not open access
You have downloaded your article from the website of the journal and you think that, since it is available free, you can deposit this published version in HAL. Well, sometimes it is true but .... sometimes it is not. Does the mention "Open Access" or "Open" is...
Evolution of document typology in HAL: the results of the working group
The CCSD created in last September a working group to make recommendations for an evolution of the document typology, common to all the users of HAL. The report (in french) of this working group is now available. It is not easy to change such a typology : it requires...
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...
HAL is 20 years old: a look back at the official ceremony which took place on 24 November 2021
HAL officially celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon on November 24. This was a great opportunity to bring together the CCSD team, the unit's supervisory bodies, the key players in its history, as well as the people and partners who...
A new branding for the CCSD and its services
As HAL celebrates its 20th birthday, the CCSD and its services get a new brand identity. New logos, new brand architecture and new visual concept: its a full makeover! The new logos of HAL, Episciences and Sciencesconf make the whole: the signs relate to specific...
National agreement with the publisher Elsevier: implementation of the imports in HAL
Provided for in the national licence agreement with Elsevier, a first batch of files supplied by the publisher will be soon imported in HAL to complete existing records. The "green OA" part of the agreement stipulates that Elsevier provides the Manuscript Author...
Enrich HAL’s repository of authors’ affiliations thanks to the ROR international identifier
It is now possible to use ROR (Research Organization Registry) identifiers when completing metadata related to research organizations whose data is stored in HAL's dedicated repository. This will contribute in the long run to the improvement of automatic affiliation...
Episciences release notes Episciences version 1.0.18
This summary only highlights recent changes and features, the full release notes with details and bug fixes are available online
Fostering scholarly journals in the digital world: opening the overlay platform Episciences to Social Sciences and Humanities
There exist several publication models for Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) journals to embrace the reality of digital dissemination, starting from retro digitization of print journals up to natively digital formats like OpenEdition Journals. With the 2016 Loi...
The first meeting of the partners assembly
The Partners Assembly met for the first time on 1 July. This was a key step in the implementation of the new governance of the CCSD: it was the opportunity to elect representatives to the Steering Committee as well to organise initial discussions. The Partners...
Episciences release notes Episciences version 1.0.11
Release notes for version 1.0.11 Version 1.0.11 has been released on June 30 2021 The main change in this version is the addition of Zenodo archive support You can now propose Zenodo as a source archive for preprint and published articles. You have to validate the...
CCSD : the summary of 2020
The CCSD publishes its 2020 activity report: let's take this opportunity to take a look at the past year. During 2020, the activity in HAL was intense: there were 167,000 new documents with files deposited in HAL! Before the summer, the finalization of the migration...
Changelog for version 1.0.2
Change log for version 1.0.2 This version is the first major update since the code was released under the GPL version 3 license on December 23, 2020. Although some of the corrections below were released online well before they were announced. The software code is...
When free access is not open access
You have downloaded your article from the website of the journal and you think that, since it is available free, you can deposit this published version in HAL. Well, sometimes it is true but .... sometimes it is not. Does the mention "Open Access" or "Open" is...
Evolution of document typology in HAL: the results of the working group
The CCSD created in last September a working group to make recommendations for an evolution of the document typology, common to all the users of HAL. The report (in french) of this working group is now available. It is not easy to change such a typology : it requires...
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...
