Open Archives for Science
The Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (Centre pour la communication scientifique directe) is the CNRS department that created the open Hyper Articles Online HAL (Hyper Articles en Ligne) archive in 2001. Based on the ArXiv model, it gathers deposits from scientists from higher education and research facilities, representing all scientific domains.
The protocol agreement signed in 2006 by universities and numerous other organizations that made HAL a common platform with international visibility was renewed in April 2013 as a part of the Très grande infrastructure recherche – bibliothèque scientifique numérique. This policy of openness resulted in evolutions of the system and the procedures that govern it. A better understanding of the possibilities created by digital technology and open-access enable the conception of new models between the Green Open Access and the gold access, notably that of epijournals offered by the Episciences.org project.
Art-Science Think Tank: Wednesday, June 13