Developed in 2001 by the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) as part of the National plan for Open Science (PNSO), HAL is a multidisciplinary open archive. The CCSD also hosts tools such as Sciencesconf, which is used to organise scientific events, and Épisciences, which is used to publish epireviews, both of which are based in particular on the HAL preprint archive.

HAL offers permanent archiving and open access to scholarly work. It is the open archive platform chosen by the entire French scientific and university community.

University Grenoble Alpes opened its HAL UGA portal in 2013. HAL has been the UGA’s bibliographic repository since 2022 (UGA Open Science Charter in french).

Why deposit on HAL?

To participate in the sharing of publications in the context of open science and promote access to them for the entire scientific community and all citizens.
To enhance the scientific output of its laboratory by increasing the visibility of its publications (referencing and access via the main scientific search engines, including Google Scholar and BASE).
To collect all your scientific output in one place, including publications linked to an ANR or Labex project.
To easily produce a list of your publications for reports, surveys, etc.
To ensure the long-term archiving of repositories (fixed URL, long-term formats).

What types of documents should be submitted to HAL?

Publications: articles, books, posters, patents, conference proceedings, etc.
Unpublished documents: reports, pre-publications, working documents, etc.
Academic work: theses, HDRs, dissertations, courses, etc.
Research data: sounds, images, videos, tables, maps
Computer codes and software (in french)

HAL accepts all the most common file formats (in french) (PDF, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, audio, video, etc.).

Which versions should be submitted to HAL?

Refer to the Legal aspects page

What are the benefits?

Automatic extraction of lists of publications in various formats (for your activity reports, CVs, personal or corporate websites, etc.).
Legal protection of the work (copyright retained, paternity of the document guaranteed by certified dating).
Access to article view statistics.