HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne) is a fairly new OA eprint archive from France's Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD). It accepts deposits from just about any field of the sciences and humanities. When deposited eprints belong to any of the disciplines covered by arXiv, then HAL automatically co-deposits them in arXiv. It also supports more metadata specificity than Dublin Core. One effect of the more structured metadata is that users can look at the eprints from a given lab or university and form other ad hoc collections. (PS: HAL's English-language interface is not yet as extensive as the French one.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/03/2005 09:47:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
