Open access in France

In France, open access to scholarly communication is relatively robust and has strong public support.

The French National Center for Scientific Research participated in 2003 in the creation of the influential Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.

[2] There are a number of collections of scholarship in France housed in digital open access repositories.

The main open repository platform in use for French higher education and research institutions is HAL.

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.

Growth of open access publications in France, 1990-2018
Number of open access publications in various French repositories, 2018