The open archives movement at Inria

As a signatory of the Berlin Declaration, Inria intends to promote open access to the scientific output of its researchers, while ensuring this output is archived in a sustainable manner. The Institute encourages all researchers to submit their work in the open archive, which can only increase its profile, while also helping researchers to take control over their own output. The HAL-Inria open archive feeds into HAL and offers a submission and consultation interface specifically for the field of ICST. See also Context of Open Archives

Key dates at a glance

 14 November 2007: The French National Research Agency (ANR) requests that all publications stemming from projects it finances be entered in the HAL national open archives system, in accordance with the applicable intellectual property and confidentiality provisions. Refer to the JULIET site to find out about the position of international research funding agencies on Open Access publishing and the availability of data from research.
Consult JULIET.

 6 July 2006: Signature of a memorandum of understanding concerning the adoption of a coordinated national approach to open archiving of scientific output. Signatories included CNRS, INRA, Inria, INSERM, IRD and CPU.

 27 April 2005: Launch of the Inria open archive based on the HAL (Hyper Articles on Line) model. It was developed by a joint team from the Inria DISC team and the Direct Scientific Communication Centre (CCSD) of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), who sought to achieve an optimum balance between the OAI-PMH protocol and the essential information (metadata) to ensure proper institutional and documentary qualification of the publications submitted.

 20 July 2004: On behalf of Inria, Gilles Kahn signs the Berlin Declaration in favour of open access to global scientific literature.
Consult the Berlin Declaration

 24 June 2004: Gilles Kahn, Chairman and CEO of Inria, signs a framework agreement between Inria and the CNRS on direct scientific communication.

The emergence of open archives

 1991: Creation of the arXiv.org archives by physicist Paul Ginsparg. Publications are posted on the server at the pre-print stage, archived and available to all free of charge.

 1997: Stephan Harnad creates the CogPrints archive, for the archiving of pre- and post-print publications in the fields of psychology, neurosciences, etc.

 1999–2001: The Open Archive initiative (OAI) is born at the Santa Fe Convention. This standard would later become international and enable the development of open archives.
Consult the Open Archive Initiative site

The OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative–Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) indicates the standards for recording and exchanging the metadata necessary to make archives interoperable.

 2000: Creation of the CNRS Direct Scientific Communication Centre (CCSD).

 2001: Creation of HAL by the CCSD, led at the time by Franck Laloë (Laboratoire Kasteler Brossel-ENS), in collaboration with Paul Ginsparg’s team.

With support from research funding agencies, the open archives movement takes off, giving rise to several declarations from scientists and organisations from different countries:

 2007: The Council of the European Union declares itself in favour of open access.
Read the conclusions of the Council on scientific information in the digital era

 November 2007: The French National Research Agency (ANR) requests that all publications stemming from projects it finances be entered in the HAL national open archives system, in accordance with the applicable intellectual property and confidentiality provisions. The ANR thus embeds the model of open dissemination of scientific results, recognising its impact in terms of visibility and attractiveness. This position confirms the involvement of research organisations in the open archives movement, particularly Inria, where submission of publications on HAL is strongly encouraged.

 April 2007: OECD guidelines and principles on access to data from research financed out of public funds.
Read the document

European Commission guidelines in favour of open access

 July 2008: Open Access Opportunities and Challenges guide

 2007: European Commission guidelines in favour of open access.
Improving knowledge transfer among research organisations and businesses throughout Europe..

 April 2005: EBLIDA declaration in favour of an effective scientific publishing system for European research.

 October 2004: Scottish declaration on open access.

 April 2004: IFLA declaration on open access to scientific literature and research documents.

 October 2003 : déclaration de Berlin.

 April 2003 : déclaration de Bethesda.

 February 2002 : déclaration de Budapest.