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HALiance: a structuring and innovative project for HAL
The CCSD is officially launching its HALiance project, winning project for Structuring Equipment for Research (Equipex+)*. The HALiance project lasts 5,5 years and aims at a major change of HAL (hardware and software infrastructure, technologies and services) while...
Ambassadors for HAL
Because scientific communities are key actors for Open Science practices to become the norm, the CCSD is now launching its HAL Ambassadors programme. This programme aims to stimulate and strengthen the dialogue between the CCSD and the scientific community. It has two...
hal.archives-ouvertes.fr will become hal.science
After the evolution of its graphic charter and with the forthcoming deployment of the new ergonomics, HAL continues its mutation: from the end of September, its primary domain will become hal.science, replacing hal.archives-ouvertes.fr. The objective is both to...
New governance of the CCSD: the International scientific council is established
The International Scientific Council met for the first time on May 23, which contributed to the formation of the CCSD's new governance. It is composed of 11 French and international experts in the fields of Open Science, open archives, publishing and research data....
CCSD: publication of the activity report
The twenty years of HAL, the new logos or the setting up of the assembly of partners are probably the events in 2021 that you probably remember about the CCSD'services. The CCSD offers you to discover more by publishing its activity report (at the end of this...
National agreement with the publisher Elsevier: implementation of the imports in HAL (step 2)
The import into HAL of articles published in 2019 and 2020 in Elsevier journals, clause of the national licence agreement with this publisher, was done last December. This automatically feeds collections, institutional portals and CVs. The metadata of articles...
CCSD and COAR announce plans to launch preprint directory
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) of France and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce their formal collaboration to launch a directory of open access preprint repositories. Preprints are becoming an...
SciencesConf: the milestone of 10,000 conferences has been reached!
The year 2022 is off to a strong start: after the milestone of the first million submission with files on HAL reached on January 6, it is the turn of Sciencesconf to pass the milestone of 10,000 hosted conferences. In its 11 years of existence, the platform has a good...
HAL is 20 years old: a look back at the official ceremony held on 24 November 2021
HAL officially kicked off its 20th anniversary celebration 'sat the Musée des Confluences in Lyon on November 24. This was a great opportunity to bring together the CCSD's team, the unit's supervisory bodies, the key players in its history, as well as partners and...
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...
HALiance: a structuring and innovative project for HAL
The CCSD is officially launching its HALiance project, winning project for Structuring Equipment for Research (Equipex+)*. The HALiance project lasts 5,5 years and aims at a major change of HAL (hardware and software infrastructure, technologies and services) while...
Ambassadors for HAL
Because scientific communities are key actors for Open Science practices to become the norm, the CCSD is now launching its HAL Ambassadors programme. This programme aims to stimulate and strengthen the dialogue between the CCSD and the scientific community. It has two...
hal.archives-ouvertes.fr will become hal.science
After the evolution of its graphic charter and with the forthcoming deployment of the new ergonomics, HAL continues its mutation: from the end of September, its primary domain will become hal.science, replacing hal.archives-ouvertes.fr. The objective is both to...
New governance of the CCSD: the International scientific council is established
The International Scientific Council met for the first time on May 23, which contributed to the formation of the CCSD's new governance. It is composed of 11 French and international experts in the fields of Open Science, open archives, publishing and research data....
CCSD: publication of the activity report
The twenty years of HAL, the new logos or the setting up of the assembly of partners are probably the events in 2021 that you probably remember about the CCSD'services. The CCSD offers you to discover more by publishing its activity report (at the end of this...
National agreement with the publisher Elsevier: implementation of the imports in HAL (step 2)
The import into HAL of articles published in 2019 and 2020 in Elsevier journals, clause of the national licence agreement with this publisher, was done last December. This automatically feeds collections, institutional portals and CVs. The metadata of articles...
CCSD and COAR announce plans to launch preprint directory
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) of France and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) are pleased to announce their formal collaboration to launch a directory of open access preprint repositories. Preprints are becoming an...
SciencesConf: the milestone of 10,000 conferences has been reached!
The year 2022 is off to a strong start: after the milestone of the first million submission with files on HAL reached on January 6, it is the turn of Sciencesconf to pass the milestone of 10,000 hosted conferences. In its 11 years of existence, the platform has a good...
HAL is 20 years old: a look back at the official ceremony held on 24 November 2021
HAL officially kicked off its 20th anniversary celebration 'sat the Musée des Confluences in Lyon on November 24. This was a great opportunity to bring together the CCSD's team, the unit's supervisory bodies, the key players in its history, as well as partners and...
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...
