Central v. distributed OA archiving in France

Stevan Harnad, France's HAL, OAI interoperability, and Central vs Institutional Repositories, Open Access Archivangelism, October 4, 2006. Excerpt:

Summary:  France's HAL is a large national repository for research output with enriched metadata. Like all other countries, France clearly needs self-archiving mandates from its research institutions and funders. The question is whether the mandates should be to deposit directly in HAL, or in each researcher's own Institutional Repository (from which HAL could then harvest the contents). Franck Laloë of CCSD replies to some questions about HAL.