The 18th edition of the Ranking Web of Repositories has just become available! HAL has fallen several spots and currently comes in eighth in the list of top portals, while HAL-Inria retains tenth place in the world ranking of institutional repositories. For two editions, the three social networks Mendeley, Researchgate…
What is HAL ? Since April 2013, HAL (Hyper Articles On line) is the reference platform in France for the open access to scientific publications (articles and theses). It is supported by the French Ministry of Research and managed by the CCSD (a CNRS unit dedicated to open archives). The…
The 16th Webometrics Ranking of Open Access Repositories has just been published! This year sees the introduction of a new “Altmetrics” criterion, a visibility indicator (Academia, Facebook, LinkedIn, Mendeley, ResearchGate, Slideshare, Twitter, Wikipedia (all editions), Wikipedia (English edition); YouTube & Scribd), which now counts for 25% of the evaluation. Another…
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In a report appearing this month, the Cirad’s CoopIST site explained how and why to publish a data paper in a scientific journal. What is a data paper? It’s a publication that uses metadata to describe a set or group of sets of raw scientific data. When the paper is…
The 7th Open Access Week will be held from 13 to 26 October. This globally organised event aims to promote the benefits of free access to the scientific community. Such events also act as a place to share knowledge and experience. The organisation of Open Access Week in France is…
The first volume of the overlay-journal, Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, is available online on the Episciences.org platform: http://jdmdh.episciences.org/ What is an overlay-journal? In Greek, epi means “upon”. It is a free, electronic review. The articles in the overlay-journal come from open archives such as HAL and ArXiv. They were chosen…
The world Webometrics ranks Hal-Inria open archive as 5th for all categories and as 1st for institutional repositories See rankings
Within the framework of the European FOSTER project, the COUPERIN* consortium, which brings together all higher education and research institutions, would like to set up communication programmes and Open Access training for researchers. To understand the ongoing process of informal exchanges in the research community seeking to raise the status…
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