Opened in January 2011 and initiated by the Library in collaboration with the Research Department, École des Ponts ParisTech’s HAL portal is a record and showcase of the scientific production of the School’s eleven laboratories.

The opening of the portal has been accompanied by active policies to increase the number of submissions by educating and training depositors, making scientific publications visible and accessible, as well as improving the interface, enriching the content and developing services – retrospective submissions, automatic web page generation, creation of collections from distinguished researchers, production of the School’s activity report – in close collaboration with the different entities involved: Research Department, laboratories, Direct Scientific Information Centre, ParisTech and its HAL portal.

Description of the project and its implementation