Open access in France

There are a number of collections of scholarship in France housed in digital open access repositories.{{cite web |url= http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Europe#France |title= France |work= Directory of Open Access Repositories |publisher= University of Nottingham |location= UK |access-date= 15 April 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090206084105/http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Europe#France |archive-date= 6 February 2009 |url-status= dead }} They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read.

The main open repository platform in use for French higher education and research institutions is HAL. It hosts over 520 000 fulltext documents and about 1.5 million references. More than 120 institutions have opened their own institutional portals on the HAL platform.

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France's main actor in open access publishing is Openedition. This set of publishing platforms is specialized in Human and Social Sciences. It hosts 490 journals, 5,600+ books, 2,600+ blogs and 39,000 events. Openedition is operated by an institutional unit called CLEO, and funded by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Université d'Aix-Marseille, and Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse. It uses for books and journals a "freemium" business model: most content is available in HTML format for free, and the other formats (pdf, epub) are available to the subscribed institutions.

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Key events in the development of open access in France include the following:

• 1999
• Creation of the Revues.org portal by Marin Dacos, with 2 open access journals
• 2001
• 23 March: French Wikipedia, a French-language open educational resource, begins publication
• HAL repository platform launched, operated by the CCSD
• 2005
• HAL-Inria repository launched
• 2013
• Signature of a partnership agreement in favour of open archives and HAL by French higher education and research institutions{{cite web |title=Convention de partenariat en faveur des archives ouvertes et de la plateforme mutualisée HAL |url=http://cache.media.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/file/HAL/93/3/01_Convention_HAL_246933.pdf |website=Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur, de la recherche et de l'innovation |access-date=August 4, 2018}}
• 2016
• Law for a digital Republic, creating a right for the researchers to submit their accepted manuscripts to institutional repositories, eventually with an embargo period, even if they've signed a copyright transfer agreement.{{cite web |title=New French Digital Republic Law boosts support for OA and TDM |url=https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=1602 |website=OpenAIRE blog |access-date=5 August 2018}}
• 2018
• {{illm|Consortium Couperin|fr|Consortium unifié des établissements universitaires et de recherche pour l'accès aux publications numériques}} cancels its subscription to a bundle of several journals published by Springer Nature.{{citation |url=https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-cancellation-tracking/ |title=Big Deal Cancellation Tracking |work=Sparcopen.org |publisher=Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition |location=US |access-date= 30 June 2018 }}
• 4 July: French Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation Frédérique Vidal announces a National Plan for Open Science{{cite web |title=National plan for open science |url=http://cache.media.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/file/Recherche/50/1/SO_A4_2018_EN_01_leger_982501.pdf |website=MESRI |access-date=5 August 2018}}
• 4 September: Researchers from France take part in the Europe-wide Plan S initiative.{{cite web |title=Plan S: Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications |url=https://www.scienceeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Plan_S.pdf |website=Science Europe |access-date=13 September 2018 |date=4 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904122211/https://www.scienceeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Plan_S.pdf |archive-date=4 September 2018 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |title=European countries demand that publicly funded research should be free to all |url=https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/09/15/european-countries-demand-that-publicly-funded-research-should-be-free-to-all |newspaper=The Economist |date=13 September 2018}}

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• Open data in France
• Internet in France
• Education in France
• Media of France
• Copyright law of France
• Science and technology in France
• Open access in other countries

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• {{cite journal |author= Hélène Bosc |doi=10.18617/liinc.v4i2.280 |language=fr |title= L'auto-archivage en France: deux exemples de politiques différentes et leurs résultats |trans-title=Self-Archiving in France: Two Different Policies and Their Results |journal= Liinc em Revista |volume= 4 |issn=1808-3536 |location=Brazil |year= 2008 |doi-access=free }}
• {{citation |url=http://openaccess.inist.fr/IMG/pdf/Open_Access_in_France_SELLreport_april_2010.pdf |title= Open Access in France: a state of the art report |publisher= Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche |year=2010 }}
• {{citation |chapter= Country Study: France |title=Landscape Study on Open Access and Monographs: Policies, Funding and Publishing in Eight European Countries |doi=10.5281/zenodo.815932 |publisher=Knowledge Exchange |author1= Eelco Ferwerda |author2= Frances Pinter |author3= Niels Stern|year= 2017 }}
• {{cite book |chapter= France |author= Walt Crawford |title=Gold Open Access by Country 2012-2017 |url=https://waltcrawford.name/goaj.html |publisher=Cites & Insights Books |location= US |year= 2018 }} {{free access}}

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• {{cite web |url= http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/access-by-region/europe-and-north-america/france/ |work=Global Open Access Portal |title=France |publisher=UNESCO }}
• {{cite web |url=http://openaccess.couperin.org |title=Open Access France: Le site couperin de l'accès ouvert en France |work= Openaccess.couperin.org |language=fr |publisher= {{illm|Consortium unifié des établissements universitaires et de recherche pour l'accès aux publications numériques|fr}} }} (Website launched in 2008).
• {{cite web |work=Registry of Open Access Repositories |location=UK |url= http://roar.eprints.org/view/geoname/geoname.html |title= Browse by Country: Europe: France }}
• {{cite web |url= http://doaj.org |title=(Search: Country of Publisher: France) |work= Directory of Open Access Journals |publisher= Infrastructure Services for Open Access |location=UK }}
• {{cite web |url= https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.france |title=(France) |work=Open Access Tracking Project |oclc= 1040261573 |publisher=Harvard University |quote=News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research |editor=Peter Suber }}
• {{cite web |url= http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/country/ |title=Browse by Country: France |work=ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies |publisher=University of Southampton |location=UK }}
• {{cite web |url=https://sparceurope.org/membership/members/ |title=Our members: France |publisher=SPARC Europe |work=Sparceurope.org |quote=Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition }}

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