Hyper Articles en Ligne
Encyclopedia
Hyper Articles en Ligne, generally shortened to HAL, is an open archive where authors
can deposit scholarly documents from all academic
fields.
HAL is run by theCentre pour la communication scientifique directe, a French
computing center, which is part of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS. Other French institutions, such as INRIA, have joined the system. While it is primarily directed towards French academics, participation is by no means restricted to them.
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.
HAL is a tool for direct scientific communication between academics. A text posted to HAL should describe completed research work and should meet current scientific requirements in the field concerned, i.e. the content should be comparable to that of a paper that an investigator might submit for publication in a peer-reviewed
scientific journal
, conference proceedings etc. A document deposited in HAL will not be subjected to any detailed scientific evaluation, but simply a rapid overview, to ensure that it does indeed fall within the category defined above.
An uploaded document does not need to have been published or even to be intended for publication: It may be posted to HAL as long as its scientific content justifies it. But should the article be published, contributors are invited to indicate the relevant bibliographic information and the digital object identifier
(DOI).
HAL aims to ensure the long term preservation of a deposited document that are stored there permanently and will receive a stable web address. Thus, like any publication in a traditional scientific journal, it can be cited in other work.
The free online access to these documents provided by HAL is intended to promote the best possible dissemination of research work; the intellectual property remains that of the author(s). Contributors must abide by the rules of good usage prevailing in scientific publications, i.e. respect and citation of original work, no intellectual plunder etc.
For physics, mathematics and other natural science topics, HAL has an automated depositing agreement with arXiv
. A similar agreement exist with PubMed Central
.
A handful of institutions have their own entrance to HAL, called portals e.g. the Arts and Humanities eprint repository, hprints
.
As an open access repository, HAL complies with the Open Archive Initiative
(OAI-PMH).
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
can deposit scholarly documents from all academic
Academia
Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning...
fields.
HAL is run by theCentre pour la communication scientifique directe, a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
computing center, which is part of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS. Other French institutions, such as INRIA, have joined the system. While it is primarily directed towards French academics, participation is by no means restricted to them.
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.
HAL is a tool for direct scientific communication between academics. A text posted to HAL should describe completed research work and should meet current scientific requirements in the field concerned, i.e. the content should be comparable to that of a paper that an investigator might submit for publication in a peer-reviewed
Peer review
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
scientific journal
Scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...
, conference proceedings etc. A document deposited in HAL will not be subjected to any detailed scientific evaluation, but simply a rapid overview, to ensure that it does indeed fall within the category defined above.
An uploaded document does not need to have been published or even to be intended for publication: It may be posted to HAL as long as its scientific content justifies it. But should the article be published, contributors are invited to indicate the relevant bibliographic information and the digital object identifier
Digital object identifier
A digital object identifier is a character string used to uniquely identify an object such as an electronic document. Metadata about the object is stored in association with the DOI name and this metadata may include a location, such as a URL, where the object can be found...
(DOI).
HAL aims to ensure the long term preservation of a deposited document that are stored there permanently and will receive a stable web address. Thus, like any publication in a traditional scientific journal, it can be cited in other work.
The free online access to these documents provided by HAL is intended to promote the best possible dissemination of research work; the intellectual property remains that of the author(s). Contributors must abide by the rules of good usage prevailing in scientific publications, i.e. respect and citation of original work, no intellectual plunder etc.
For physics, mathematics and other natural science topics, HAL has an automated depositing agreement with arXiv
ArXiv
The arXiv |Chi]], χ) is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all...
. A similar agreement exist with PubMed Central
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a free digital database of full-text scientific literature in biomedical and life sciences. It grew from the online Entrez PubMed biomedical literature search system. PubMed Central was developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine as an online archive of biomedical journal...
.
A handful of institutions have their own entrance to HAL, called portals e.g. the Arts and Humanities eprint repository, hprints
Hprints
hprints is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of arts and humanities and it can be accessed freely via the Internet since it is an Open Access repository aiming at making scholarly documents publicly available to the widest possible audience.-The hprints...
.
As an open access repository, HAL complies with the Open Archive Initiative
OAI
-Personal name:* Oai was the common nickname of Saigō-no-Tsubone , a figure in the history of feudal Japan.-Organizations:OAI, as an initialism, may refer to:*Ohio Aerospace Institute, a space grant college...
(OAI-PMH).