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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...
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 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...
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....
