Launch of the HAL collection, an open archive of RARe's scientific results

Included in the research infrastructure roadmap of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and in the National Plan for Open Science, HAL is the multidisciplinary open archive chosen by the entire French scientific and academic community for the dissemination of knowledge.

With millions of documents produced in the context of scientific research and higher education, the platform guarantees access and long-term preservation and offers a range of services that contribute to their promotion.

Led by the RARe Communication Working Group with expertise from the HAL INRAE support team, the project to create a collection is the result of numerous exchanges and collaborations between RARe's pillars and CRBs to choose the criteria that formed the collection and build up the repository. Thanks to everyone's efforts, RARe now has an Open Science repository for promoting biological resource centres. This is one of the priority objectives of the communication plan: to communicate the attractiveness of biological resource collections and to support infrastructure members in promoting their results and outputs.

At the time of delivery, the collection comprises 923 publications, 534 of which are articles from scientific journals.

• https://hal.inrae.fr/BRC-RARE/

This first version of the collection provides information on the main scientific disciplines and topics to which biological resource centres contribute in the fields of biology, agronomy, genetics, biodiversity, ecology, reproduction, microbiology, parasitology, biotechnology, food engineering, environmental studies and global change, as well as for production in bioinformatics, modelling and simulation, imaging and assisted recognition, processing and AI.. 

• Scientific fields Life sciences (799/923)
• Scientific fields Environmental sciences (192/923)
• Scientific fields Computer science (51/923)

Another HAL aggregator allows users to view a map of scientific collaborations, which also demonstrates the wealth of scientific networks and partnerships that exist around biological resource centres..

The collection also demonstrates a very significant level of commitment to our open access approach, with 72% of publications accessible.

The HAL archive benefits from interconnections with major international archives (arXiv, Europe Pubmed Central, RePec, OpenAIRE), Google Scholar indexing of its content, and offers numerous services.. 

Acknowledgements:

• HAL INRAE team
• Members of the RARe Communication Working Group and CRB correspondents
• RARe Coordination Unit