Open Archive (HAL) :

implementation of a policy for open archives

Christine.Berthaud@ccsd.cnrs.fr

L’open access

• Economic factor

• Increase of the price rates of subscriptions 1975 in 1995 (300 %)

• The digital technology also generates new intermediate actors (search

engines)

• Technical factor

• Internet: the server ftp, the electronic mail and Web and its associated

services (concept of interoperability)

• New techniques for the scientific communication

• Socio-behavioral factor

• Appearance of new practices of the IST and the need formalized by

sharing of resources on behalf of the researchers, computer specialists

and professionals of the IST

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The prehistory

• The precursors of new practices of type OA:

• From the 80s, researchers deposited their articles on servers FTP then

on Web sites (computer specialists of the Bell Labs, the physicists, the

astrophysicists).

• Paul Ginsparg invents a collective Web site

• First server of self-archiving 1991

http: // arxiv.org /

ArXiv has mirror sites all over the world

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Now

• ArXiv, the example in Physics and Mathematics for 20 years

• An initiative of Paul Ginsparg at Los Alamos

• 4 000 manuscripts deposited each month

• 675 000 manuscripts deposited todate

• 300 000 daily searches

• Mirror sites all over the world

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Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, IsraelItaly, Japan, Russia, South Africa, FranceSouth Korea, Spain, Taiwan, England, and so on

Declarations

• Berlin Declaration (octobre2003)

• Big leading European scientific institutions assert their commitment

in favour of the open access (archives and reviews).

• In France, the CNRS, INSERM, INRIA, Institut Pasteur have signed ...

• 25 Nobel support the Open Access (open letter to Congress,

September 2004)

• 2-4 december, 2009 : The Berlin7 conference took place in Paris.

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Definition

• An open archive (OA) is a repository of data (server) whose content

(scientific and technical documents) it is available online, freely on

the web, and respects the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative-

Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) ...

• Self-archiving means file documents on this server.

• And…

• Due to this common protocol, open archives are harvested by a

harvester as Oaister becomes a meta-archive, documents can be

seen everywhere in the world, whatever their location.

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Electronic ID and quotability

• "Document" in an open archive is:

• One or several versions of the same article containing each

• The descriptive note

• Including possibly bibliographical references

• one or more of the same file formats (PDF, TeX, XML, DOC, etc.).

• possibly additional files:

images, sounds, videos, posters, presentation "ppt", etc..

• The persistent identifier, "Quotable" references a "container" that

houses all components of the scientific paper

• URL simplified ensures the reader to arrive always on the latest version

of the article and allows access to historical

• Stable URL does not depend on the physical storage of document

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In France• Creation of the Center for Direct Scientific Communication, 2000

(Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe : CCSD)

• HAL development, 2001and TEL for theses

• Official announcement of a common OA policy, focussing on the creation of institutional repositories, March 2005

• Open Archives Steering Committee, March 2006

• 1st Inter-institution agreements

• CNRS, CPU, CGE, INRIA, INRA, INSERM, IRD, CIRAD, CEMAGREF, PASTEUR

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• Context

• May 2008 : Salençon report :

• political leadership of the STI shared by the major players of higher

education and research

• offer services to all communities

• develop new models and economic balance between public and private

publishing

• 2008 : BSN is included in the roadmap of

• «very large research infrastructures » (TGIR)

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First steps• 2010 : creation of a Strategic steering committee of digital

acquisitions

• Composition :

• Conference of University Presidents (CPU)

• Conference of Schools of higher education

• Major research institutions

• Ministry of culture

• Reference text, setting out the objectives of coordination :

• Slow spending

• Quality of supply …

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Current structure• Strategic steering committee

• 9 Technical group

• 1- Acquisitions of current and restrospective collections

• 2- Access arrangements and accommodation

• 3- Cataloging and metadata

• 4- Open access

• 5- Digitization of scientific patrimony

• 6- Digital preservation

• 7- Digital publishing

• 8- Interlibrary loans

• 9- Training

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National MoU

• Partnership agreement in favor of open archives and shared

platform HAL

• signed by CPU (Conférence des Présidents d’Universités), CGE (Conférence des Grandes Ecoles) and 23 establishments :

• L’AMUE, l’ANDRA, l’ANR, la BNF, Le BRGM, la CDEFI, le CEA, le CEE, le CIRAD, le

CNRS, le CSTB, l’IFPEN, l’IFFSTAR, l’INED, l’INERIS, l’INRA, l’INRIA, l’INSERM,

l’INVS, l’IRD, l’IRSN, l’IRSTEA et l’Institut Pasteur.

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HAL, The CCSD’s Mission

• An initiative for multidisciplinary scientific archives

• An international approach

• Joining the open archives movement (no restriction to building a

national or institutional archive)

• An essentially researcher-centered approach:

• Archives directly built by researchers with as primary objective

the creation of a scientific tool providing access to the full-text of

a document

• An « indirect » institutional tool through metadata harvesting

(association author -> laboratories -> institutions)

• A long-term archival mission

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HAL objectives

• Full-text oriented multidisciplinary archive• All kinds of scientific publications• Researcher-centered approach• Principle of self-archiving (with possible

editorial assistance by professionals)• Customized environments (flexible metadata

structure, community-specific interfaces, building of ‘collections’, alert systems)

• Interoperability• Open technologies (Linux, Apache, MySQL,

PHP,…)• Long-term archiving

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A reminder : the Berlin Declaration

• …defines open access contributions as including :

• ‘original scientific research results, raw data and metadata, source materials, digital representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly multimedia material’

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Quality• Quality of informationQuality of informationQuality of informationQuality of information

• Institutional recognition and certification

• Editorial assistance by librarian (metadata check and improvement)

• Value-creation tools (overlay journals, creation of ‘collections’ via stamps,…)

• Required scientific level: “any article that, if submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, would be sent to a reviewer”

• Broad coverage

• Quality of infrastructure provisionQuality of infrastructure provisionQuality of infrastructure provisionQuality of infrastructure provision• Archiving and long-term preservation environments

(management of technological changes)• Large scale dissemination

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Services• To the researchersTo the researchersTo the researchersTo the researchers

• Quality, accessibility, long term archives, reporting aid (annual assessment, lab assessment), legal support, single input and multiple output formats, export facilities

• To the institutionTo the institutionTo the institutionTo the institution• Quality, broad coverage of lab production, enhanced

assessment, branding, administrative and prospective tools

• To the research (and tax payer) communityTo the research (and tax payer) communityTo the research (and tax payer) communityTo the research (and tax payer) community• Quality, large scale accessibility of the French

(multidisciplinary) research output

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The HAL Open Archive

• Entirely developed by the CCSD

• Open Technologies

• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

• Secured environment (hosted by the IN2P3’s Computer Center)

• Partnership with INRIA, CINES

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Interoperability, interconnections

• OAI-PMH• Multi formats including OAI_DC (Non qualified Dublin Core)

• REDIF

• For harvesting with RePeC (Economists)

• RSS feeds

• Connections

• arXiv in Physics and Mathematics (Biology), exclusively from HAL to arXiv

• PubMed Central (HAL-INSERM)• Since February 2006, record import feature from PubMed

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• Transfer to PubMed Central

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Imports/exports

• Imports• XML files, metadata and full-text (Web services some time in

2006)

• Exports• Lists according to search criterias in all common computer

formats

• Researcher’s « Home page »

• Institutional exports (CRAC, Labintel, etc.)

• Web services

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HAL’s Structure

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Deposit portals

Full textFull text

Bibliographic

record

Bibliographic

record

HALINRIA HAL-SHS

AUTRESUNIV

INRA

PubMed Central

(2006)

PubMed Central

(2006)

ArXivArXivCommon metadata

Discipline-specific metadata

Institutional metadata

hhhhaLLLL

EXPORTS

IMPORTS

XML, WS

TEL

genericdomain-dependent

typologicalinstitutional

OAI-PMHREDIFRSSEtc.

hhhhaLLLL

EXPORTS

IMPORTS

XML, WS

OAI-PMHREDIFRSSEtc.

Customized collections, extractions, « stamps »

Laboratory

directory

Journal title

directory

Scientific

classification

directory

ws ws ws

Directory accessibility

Deposit

• A streamlined process

• 4 steps

1. Metadata

2. Author(s), laboratory affiliation(s), institution(s)

3. [document downloading]

4. Recap control, deposit

• Back if needed

2222

authorsmetadata recapfiles

Depositing in HAL

�Deposit conditions

• Streamlined identification• Auto-validated account (institutional authentification possible)

• Contributors: authors, librarians, scientific publishers, etc.

• Required scientific level• « Any article that, if submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, would be sent to a

reviewer »

• Controls prior to onlining• Technical check

• Cursory scientific validation by field or submission portal

• Open document format• Mandatory display format (PDF, PS)

• Source files recommended

•• Unretractable deposit

• Ability to deposit new versions

• All versions are accessible to any Net surfer

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HAL• Uses

• Preprints, Postprints, bibliographic records

• Types of bibliographic records

• Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Guest conference papers

• Peer-reviewed proceedings

• Articles in non peer-reviewed journals

• Conference papers

• Seminars, workshops

• Book chapters

• Books

• Patents

• Theses and dissertations

Statistics

• 220,449 scientific articles available in full text on HAL including :

44,136 documents related to the disciplines of SHS

34,071 theses on TEL

More than 600,000 authors referenced

2800 deposits per month

• In 2012: 2763 ArXiv transfers, 1736 to RePEc and 465 to Pubmed

Harvested by:

REPEC, Google Scholar, OAISTER ...

Scientific field distribution of full-text deposits

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HAL, or Why Centralize

• Ensure access to the full-text

• Maintain an homogeneous quality scientific level

• Provide enhanced international visibility

• Supply permanent URLs

• Enable overall indexing of the full-text included in the database

• Date and time the deposits

• Give an institutional viewpoint

• Interconnect with other important databases in the world

• Enrich automatically the institutional directories

• Limit record capture

• Centralize reader’s alerts

• Manage long-term archiving

• And … limit efforts to one single specialized unit

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The declinations of HAL• thematic portals

• HAL-SHS, @rchiveSIC, HAL-SDE…

• Generic portals• HAL, TEL, CEL…

• 83 Institutional Portals developed specifically in HAL :• 32 university

• 28 high schools,

• 23 research institutions…

• 2563 CollectionsFor laboratories, research projects, conferences, journals ...

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In conclusion, the future

• The Episciences.org project is involved in the open access

movement.

• The main idea is to provide a technical platform of peer-reviewing;

its purpose is to promote the emergence of epijournals (overlay

journals), namely open access electronic journals taking their

contents from preprints deposited in open archives such as arXiv or

HAL, that have not been published elsewhere.

• No assignment of rights is signed with authors retain their rights in

their articles.

• Being prepared : "Episciences-Maths" project supported by the

Institut Fourier, CNRS UMR5582 and Université Joseph Fourier

(Grenoble)

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http://ccsd.cnrs.fr

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr

Thank-You / Merci

Any questions ?

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