HAL (open archive)

HAL
Type of site
Research archive
Available inFrench, Spanish, Mandarin, English, German, Italian, Arabic.
Headquarters,
France
OwnerCentre pour la communication scientifique directe (CCSD)
URLhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/
Commercialno
RegistrationFree
Launched2001[1]
Current statusActive

HAL (short for Hyper Articles en Ligne)[2] is an open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields.

Documents in HAL are uploaded either by one of the authors with the consent of the others or by an authorized person on their behalf.[3] An uploaded document does not need to have been published or even to be intended for publication. As an open access repository, HAL complies with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH) as well as with the European OpenAIRE project.

HAL was started in 2001 by Franck Laloë, initially at École normale supérieure (ENS), and was later transferred to the Centre pour la communication scientifique directe (CCSD); other French institutions, such as Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria), have joined the system. While it is primarily directed towards French academics, participation is not restricted to them.

  1. ^ Pierre Baruch (2007). "Open Access Developments in France: the HAL Open Archives System". Learned Publishing. 20 (4): 267–282. doi:10.1087/095315107X239636.
  2. ^ The acronym HAL was chosen in reference to the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. “Hyper Articles en Ligne” is a backronym.
  3. ^ "Easy depositing tool Dissemin incorporated in HAL : OpenAIRE blog". blogs.openaire.eu. Retrieved 2017-08-28.