The evolution of the scientific publication ecosystem requires an understanding of the issues at stake and a knowledge of open access publication methods. To address the challenges of open access to scientific publications, the Université Grenoble Alpes has produced a charter and a master plan.

Help – HAL UGA Office ↗

The HAL UGA Office is here to help you with all aspects of publications.

Open Access Publishing ↗

There are several ways to make your scientific publications open access: the Green, Gold or Diamond Open Access.

Tools can help you to identify a journal that matches your publication criteria and to identify a so-called ‘predatory’ journal.

Finding a publication ↗

A number of tools make it easy to identify open access publications: plug-ins and extensions, scientific search engines, bundles of journals or books, open archive directories.

Deposit in HAL ↗

HAL is the multidisciplinary open archive developed in 2001 by the Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) as part of the National Plan for Open Science (PNSO).

Why and what are the advantages of publishing on HAL? What type of documents, what versions should be uploaded to HAL?