Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Newsjunkie.net is a resource guide for journalists. We show who's behind the news, and provide tools to help navigate the modern business of information.
Use of Data
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HAL (Hyper Articles en Ligne) is France's national multidisciplinary open archive, serving as the primary repository for the open dissemination of scientific research results produced by the French academic and research community. It is operated by the Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD), a joint support and research unit under the oversight of the CNRS, Inria, and INRAE.
HAL was initiated in 2001 by physicist Franck Laloë, initially hosted at the École normale supérieure (ENS), and subsequently transferred to the CCSD. It was developed following the model of arXiv and has since grown into the backbone of French open science infrastructure. HAL is part of France's National Plan for Open Science and has been certified as a research infrastructure by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research under the HAL+ designation.
HAL functions simultaneously as a single repository, an application platform, and a shared hosting environment for institutional archives, thematic open archives, and electronic theses. It covers all scientific disciplines, including humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, and medicine. Documents include journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, preprints, theses, software, and datasets. In February 2025, HAL received CoreTrustSeal certification, affirming its commitment to trustworthy data management and long-term preservation.
HAL's governance is inclusive and open to all partner institutions through four bodies: a Steering Committee, an Orientation Committee, a Partners' Assembly, and an International Scientific Council. The platform is interoperable with international systems such as ORCID, ROR, OpenAIRE, and DART-Europe. HAL-SHS, a dedicated portal for humanities and social sciences, has hosted over 100,000 documents since its launch in 2005. HAL Theses manages the deposit and dissemination of French doctoral dissertations. Access to all content is free of charge.
Authors can create personal CVs that automatically update with new deposits. Institutional portals and research laboratories can create collections aggregating their members' publications. HAL supports time-stamped deposits that establish scientific priority and copyright protection, and all deposited documents receive permanent URLs for stable citation.