French National Plan for Open Science
National policy promoting open access to publications and FAIR research data, including deposit in the HAL open archive.
Jurisdiction · FR
CASRAI standards in France
France has one of the most developed open-science policy environments in Europe, driven by the French National Plan for Open Science (Plan national pour la science ouverte) and the HAL open archive, which is widely used for green open-access deposit. French research funders and organisations are active in cOAlition S / Plan S, the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, and CoARA (the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment). Responsible-assessment and narrative-CV approaches are gaining ground alongside these commitments.
Key funders
Who funds research here
- ANR
- CNRS
- Inserm
- Inria
Assessment frameworks
How research is evaluated
- CoARA agreement
- Narrative CV approaches
- DORA signatories
Mandates
Active rules + when they took effect
Plan S / cOAlition S
Immediate open access for funded peer-reviewed publications; ANR is a cOAlition S member.
Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
Commitment to making openness the default for research-information metadata; supported by French signatories.
CoARA
Reform of research assessment towards qualitative, responsible evaluation.
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