USMB is a signatory of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge, and since 2009 has had its own open archive portal: HAL USMB. This portal showcases the scientific output of the university's researchers and teacher-researchers.
USMB backed up its commitment to open access by adopting the mandatory deposit mandate for publications by its teacher-researchers in its institutional archive on December 19, 2017.
Open Science means making research publications and data available without delay and without financial barriers.
"Open Science: sharing knowledge freely
Our website Ouvrir la science provides information on France's Open Science policy, resources (founding texts, guides, etc.) and a newsletter to keep you up to date with all the latest news on the subject.
To deposit in HAL is :
- Participate in the Open Access movement, with a view to the free dissemination of knowledge within the scientific community and to the general public.
- Make your research widely available and increase the visibility of your work: HAL publications can be found by search engines such as Google, Google Scholar, BASE, etc.
- Guaranteed long-term access to your work: the unique, permanent URLs provided by HAL ensure stable citations. All documents deposited in HAL are stored on CINES (Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Supérieur) servers, guaranteeing long-term access to files, as well as format continuity.
- Facilitate the collection of bibliometric data for your laboratory's HCERES reports: HAL complies with interoperable international standards.
- Protection against plagiarism: any document published in an open archive is protected by copyright. What's more, HAL makes it possible to prove the scientific anteriority (thanks to the date of deposit) and the authorship of the document (thanks to the unique identifier to which it is attached).
- Meet national(National Plan for Open Science) and European(Plan S) requirements and USMB obligations.
The mandatory writ of mandamus adopted by the USMB on December 19, 2017 involves:
- the deposit in HAL of full-text electronic versions of articles written byUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc members in peer-reviewed journals since January 1, 2011. Access to these full-text versions will be open only with the author's agreement, and in compliance with applicable copyright rules. The institutional deposit does not restrict the free choice of publisher or the mode of publication.
- entry of bibliographic references for all publications byUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc members and hosted researchers since January 1, 2007.
Why HAL rather than Research Gate or Academia.edu?
Research Gate for the hard sciences, Academia.edu for the humanities: both are social networks for research. Although they are extremely useful in terms of visibility and career development, they are managed by commercial companies. As such, their purpose is not the same as that of a public platform such as HAL. Even if their copyright policies seem to be evolving, these platforms are still poor performers when it comes to guaranteeing authors' rights. In addition, there is no guarantee of permanent archiving: they are free to delete articles or contributions without notice.
We advise you to use them for their social aspect: creating links between peers and increasing your visibility. Nonetheless, we recommend that you upload your articles or research papers to HAL beforehand, to ensure that they are archived with the highest quality, and that you then link them from these social networks to the institutional archive. In this way, you can be sure that your rights will be respected.
HAL (Hyper articles en ligne) is the national open archive created in 2001 by the CCSD (Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). It is a platform for the deposit and open access dissemination of researchers' scientific work. You can deposit all your research-level documents in HAL: articles, communications, posters, books, book chapters, unpublished documents (working papers, minutes, reports, etc.).
You can make a HAL deposit from any HAL portal. Your publications will automatically be visible in HAL, HAL USMB and your laboratories' portals and collections.
Prerequisite: create a HAL account.
To help you submit to HAL and make the most of the platform, consult the CCSD video tutorials.
The CCSD's support and assistance team also offers one-hour online sessions to familiarize you with the HAL repository, as well as a self-training module.
If your research activity is financed by French public funds for at least 50% and if you publish these results in a journal that releases at least one issue per year, the Law for a Digital Republic authorizes you to deposit up to the final accepted version* of your articles, with a maximum embargo of 6 months for a journal in Science, Technology and Medicine or 12 months for a journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences, whatever the contract signed with the publisher.
*Final accepted version or post-print or post-publication: final version with peer-reviewed modifications but without the editor's formatting.
Under the same conditions, you can also submit a pre-print or pre-publication (version submitted to the journal before any revision process).
To submit the re-print or editor's version (the final version of the article with the editor's layout, i.e. the version as published) you must have the publisher's explicit agreement.
To find out about your publisher's policy, visit the SHERPA/RoMEO website.
This video informs you about your rights when publishing in Open Access:
"Open archives: what about my copyright?"
HAL embargo management:
Even if there is an embargo, you can immediately deposit your file in HAL and apply an embargo at the time of deposit, ranging from 1 month to 2 years. The bibliographic reference will be visible for consultation, but the file will not be visible until the embargo has expired.
Useful links:
Hal : Legal questions
Couperin FAQ on the law for a digital republic
Application guide to the law for a digital republic
" Les préprints : guide pratique" , published in HAL SHS.
This guide is the translation adapted to the French context of " A Practical Guide to Preprints: Accelerating Scholarly Communication ", prepared and distributed by a team of Dutch researchers and librarians. It is aimed at researchers who wish to deposit preprints in archives even before their manuscript has been accepted by a publisher, and answers a number of their questions and concerns relating to community appreciation, publication in scientific and scholarly journals, and the evaluation and visibility of their work. The book also offers explanations and advice on the use, understanding and interpretation of this particular object, the preprint, to members of the public for whom it is also of some use.
TheIdHAL is a unique author identifier in HAL. It enables a user known as an author in HAL to group together all his author forms (for example: Marie Dupont, M. Dupont, Marie Dupont-Martin, etc) and to choose one by default.
By creating an IdHal, you can group all your publications under a single author form.
Prerequisites:
- to have a HAL account
- to have made at least one HAL deposit
The creation of an IdHal allows you to generate a HAL CV, i.e. a personal page with a stable, permanent URL, and an up-to-date list of your publications.
Your HAL researcher page can then be promoted on your laboratory's web page, as an e-mail signature, in your social networking profiles, etc.
To help you, video tutorials have been produced by Agrocampus Ouest:
Tutorial Creating your IdHal
Create your HAL CV tutorial
The CCSD support and assistance team also offers one-hour online sessions to learn how to create your idHal and Cv HAL.
Here you'll find resources and tools to help you in your Open Access practice.
The website Couperin website for Open Science in France guides you through the process of publishing in Open Access, indicating the best practices to follow and informing you about the legal aspects.
The guide " I publish, what are my rights? "gives you advice on how to publish and distribute your work while respecting intellectual property rights.
The Passport to Open Science, a guide for doctoral students details all the stages in a doctoral student's research career, from developing a scientific approach to disseminating results.
Dissemin is a tool that allows you to identify which of your publications could be freely accessible, and facilitates their deposit in an open archive.
Click & Read and Open access Button are extensions that install on your browser and let you know whether a paid-access article has a free version.
The Open Archives team of the USMB BUs offers :
- training courses on how to deposit documents in HAL
- raising awareness of the challenges of open archives
- first-level support for depositors and collection managers
Don't hesitate to contact us at question-bu@univ-smb.fr or get in touch with your advisors:
Julie Alibert-Stern, BU Jacob
responsable-recherche.bu@univ-smb.fr
Christelle Serra, BU Bourget
christelle.serra@univ-smb.fr