In the framework of publications on the National Plan for Open Science and in order to contribute to the generalisation of open access to publications, Université Gustave Eiffel continued to feed the open archives it uses, in particular HAL and Madis, in addition to theme-based open archives such as arXiv or RePEc.

In correlation with the visibility of publications on open archives, a communication action designed to strengthen the visibility of researchers via their personal pages (summary of research activities and access to lists of publications automatically generated by HAL or Madis for submitted publications) was launched during the Open Access Week 2020 event, organised at the University from 6 to 13 November under the theme ‘Boost the visibility of your publications on Eiffel professional pages’.

Membership of the ORCID France consortium, which constitutes one of France’s engagements in the Open Government Partnership (engagement 18: Build an ‘open science’ ecosystem), was confirmed in 2020 on the scale of Université Gustave Eiffel. The establishment is also taking part in an APC (article processing charges) survey, launched by Couperin in December 2020 and aimed at identifying the cost of publishing articles in open access or hybrid journals. It thus joins a European movement to foster greater transparency in the costs of scientific publishing.

2020 also saw the development of the Université Gustave Eiffel charter on publication signatures. The purpose of the charter is to boost the establishment’s visibility and the identification of its areas of excellence, to facilitate the detection of publications for publishing houses or private and public organisations, and to position Université Gustave Eiffel in international rankings (Shanghai, Leiden).

A section devoted to open science, in addition to a horizon-scanning newsletter on this theme, went online via the Université Gustave Eiffel intranet site.