13/12/2018 | HAL
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... read more
07/11/2018 | Episciences, 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... read more
18/10/2018 | HAL, News
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... read more
25/09/2018 | HAL, News
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... read more
11/09/2018 | Episciences, News
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... read more
10/09/2018 | News
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... read more
10/09/2018 | Episciences, 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... read more
27/06/2018 | Episciences, Episciences release notes
Change log of version 2018-06-27 New features and changes Article submission: when an author submit a new article, the platform check if the article has been submitted previously. Actions taken depending on the article’s status: [Article not yet in a reviewing... read more
19/06/2018 | HAL, News
The official opening ceremony of Software Heritage was held on June the 7th. Developed by INRIA in partnership with UNESCO, SoftwareHeritage.org is the first universal library of computer programme source codes. It aims to preserve and share the source codes of all... read more
15/06/2018 | HAL
Last september, you discovered the new simplified procedure for submitting in HAL: a new design, fewer required metadata and an improvement of the retrieval of metadata. Since then, more than 63 000 submissions have been done. This represents an increase of 29 %... read more
18/03/2018 | HAL
By depositing the full text of your publications in HAL, you allow the widest possible dissemination of your research. The use of a search engine like Google for any documentary search obviously does not prevent the use of more specialized databases or search... read more
06/03/2018 | Episciences, Episciences release notes
Change log of version 2018-03-06 New features and changes Article submission: the author may add a comment and a cover letter to his submission. Those elements are only visible to Chief editors, Editors, Reviewers Article submission: the examples of open archives in... read more
24/01/2018 | HAL
A large part of the technical and scientific knowledge that is being developed today resides in software. The preservation of this universal body of knowledge has become as essential as preserving research articles and data sets. By building a universal and long-term... read more
28/11/2017 | HAL, News
In 2017, we see the network of French institutional archives growing rich with the creation of 15 portals, bringing to 122 the total number of organizations that have chosen HAL to manage the long-term archiving, the dissemination in open access and the promotion of... read more
24/11/2017 | Episciences, News
The hosting platform of overlay journals Episciences strengthens with the creation of a steering committee which met for the first time this autumn. Committee members settled several missions: Follow-up of the existing epi-committees and creation of new ones... read more
13/11/2017 | News, SciencesConf
With its new version, the conference platform SciencesConf takes another dimension: the platform offers from now on a new service, SciencesCall, intended for the management of calls for projects. The CCSD, in partnership with the representatives of the DIM... read more
27/09/2017 | HAL, News
Meeting the needs of users by facilitating the use of HAL is the priority objective of the CCSD’s roadmap. The simplification of the deposit is the main expectation. The 2017 developments were focused on this objective and on September 20, the CCSD team organized a... read more
11/07/2017 | HAL
Last May representatives of various national and regional open archive networks signed an agreement to enhance their cooperation, the purpose being to come up with an improved working relationship between these networks. Displayed by COAR (Confederation of Open Access... read more
