De l’Openwashing comme symptôme ? Renégociations des pratiques de chercheurs sur les plateformes de l’Open Science - Archive ouverte HAL

From DeepL's English: The production of scientific knowledge, which has been extensively studied in the social sciences, also benefits from being examined ‘at the end of the chain’, at the level of individual researchers and their varied responses to national policies – in this case, regarding open science in France. We shall present in more detail the initial findings of ongoing research carried out as part of the ANR ROR2 project, one of the objectives of which was to map researchers’ open-access publishing practices. To this end, we shall draw on focus group interviews conducted with groups organised by discipline, comprising research professionals working in France. To date (end of March 2026), we have conducted six such discipline-based interviews: three in STEM and three in the social sciences and humanities. The corpus thus assembled enables a comparative analysis (between the social sciences and humanities and STEM) of the practices, uses, perceptions and judgements of research professionals regarding open access mechanisms. From this perspective, which focuses on the policy feedbacks of public research policy in France, the analysis emphasises relationships with two types of science-sharing platforms: the HAL open archive and academic social networks, including ResearchGate and Academia.edu. The contextualised study of the focus groups shows how the role of these platforms can be both ‘naturalised’ and renegotiated, and sometimes contested.