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Episciences: a survey to better know our users
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...
Current events for the open science in France
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...
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...
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...
Official opening of Software Heritage
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...
New interface for submitting in HAL: a first assessment
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 %...
Harvesting, SEO: visibility of your deposits
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...
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...
Preserving Software: A collaboration between Software Heritage and the CCSD
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...
15 new institutional portals in 2017
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...
A steering committee for Episciences
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...
Call for projects: use SciencesConf to manage them
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 "Matériaux...
The evolutions of HAL from A to Z
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...
HAL: institutional archives in networks
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...
Episciences: a survey to better know our users
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...
Current events for the open science in France
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...
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...
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...
Official opening of Software Heritage
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...
New interface for submitting in HAL: a first assessment
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 %...
Harvesting, SEO: visibility of your deposits
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...
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...
Preserving Software: A collaboration between Software Heritage and the CCSD
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...
15 new institutional portals in 2017
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...
A steering committee for Episciences
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...
Call for projects: use SciencesConf to manage them
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 "Matériaux...
The evolutions of HAL from A to Z
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...
HAL: institutional archives in networks
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...
