Søren Bertil Fabricius Dorch has written an useful Short guide to HAL, Copenhagen University Library, July 27, 2007. Excerpt:
HAL - Hyper Archive onLine - is a free Open Access research repository that has existed since 2000. HAL is run by the French research council CNRS and currently contains approximately 50,000 documents. About 16% of the documents belong to subjects within social science and the arts and humanities (the SHS domain) corresponding to over 8,300 documents (currently roughly four submissions a day)....
There is no need to register, if you just want to browse HAL for research material, if you just want to download material, or if you want to receive RSS feeds from HAL....
However, if you are considering depositing or submitting a research document to HAL, you should register first. Registration is also necessary if you want to receive notification emails about newly deposited documents, e.g. weekly on specific topics....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/29/2007 05:44:00 PM.
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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
