Publications

Disseminating with an open archive

Green open access refers to self-archiving or deposit by the author in an open archive.

An open archive is a repository for freely-accessible publications and other scientific works produced by scientific research and teaching.
It can be:

Do you have a question about depositing your publications? Your rights? Your obligations from research funding agencies?
We can help you with all the steps you need to take to open up your publications, in particular by using open archives!

 

Open archive FAQ

LillOA (Lille Open Archive) is the institutional open archive of the University of Lille, launched online in 2018. It was designed using open source software to facilitate connection, provide flexibility in the dissemination of scientific publications, and ensure interoperability thanks to its compatibility with the OpenAIRE platform.

Due to the software becoming obsolete and requiring an update and complete overhaul of its structure, it will evolve in 2025 to become LillOA – HAL. Now integrated into the national HAL archive, run by the CCSD, it contains all the scientific output identified by the laboratories of the University of Lille.

All deposits previously made on LillOA are available on LillOA – HAL.

To deposit your scientific output, visit our portal: https://lilloa.hal.science/ 

Article 30 of the Law for a Digital Republic (2016) gives authors the right to disseminate their research work via an open archive:

  • for any article published in a journal whose frequency is at least annual,
  • the author has the right to make the version accepted for publication (postprint) freely available,
  • 6 months after publication if it is in the field of Science, Technology, and Medicine,
  • 12 months after publication for the field of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Find out more

 

Research funding agencies (European Commission, ANR) now require researchers leading funded projects to comply with a number of obligations related to open science (opening up research publications and data).

⇒ See the page devoted to the Open Science requirements of research funding agencies

Since 2020, the procedures for collecting publications by CNRS researchers as part of the CRAC and RIBAC campaigns have changed.

  • The references and, for certain types of publications, the full text must be available in HAL in order to be validated for the CRAC and RIBAC.
  • The publications to be attributed to each author will be easier to identify thanks to the use of the unique IdHAL identifier.

Note: As LillOA is interconnected with HAL, deposits made in LillOA will also be visible in HAL, and will therefore be counted for the CRAC and RIBAC.

 

Reminder of CNRS requirements

  • References for all scientific works
  • Deposit of the full-text version of scientific publications (published or forthcoming) :
    • Science, technology and medicine (CRAC): journal articles or articles from conferences with proceedings, pre-publications, books and book chapters
    • Humanities and social sciences (RIBAC): journal articles

 

Support from the university libraries

If you have any questions or if you need any help with depositing your work in the context of the CRAC or RIBAC, your open science advisors are at your disposal. Please do not hesitate to write to them (list of open science advisors).