A shared governance and a sustainable financing model for HAL | CCSD

On July 16, the Open Science Steering Committee approved the evolution of the financial contribution made by the French scientific institutions with a HAL portal as well as a new governance scheme for the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD), the service unit that created and still develops HAL. HAL is a major part in the French national policy for Open Science: it enables the diffusion of more than 750,000 scientific documents and hosts 124 institutional open archives (portals). Its development requires a sustainable increase of financial resources. The current recurring revenues of 1 million € are brought by CNRS, Inria and INRAE. In addition, an annual financial contribution has been requested since 2018 from the institutions with a portal. The amount and terms of this contribution are evolving: the steering committee for Open Science has approved the principle of a contribution based on the number of researchers of the institution.