Open Science
resulting from an ANR project published in 2023 are openly accessible in 2024
More than 10 collaborations
with French or international institutions
dedicated to open science launched since 2019
10 years of open science policy at ANR
What is open science?
Open science is defined as “an inclusive construct that combines various movements and practices aiming to make multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone, to increase scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society, and to open the processes of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation and communication to societal actors beyond the traditional scientific community. It comprises all scientific disciplines and aspects of scholarly practices[…] and it builds on the following key pillars: open scientific knowledge, open science infrastructures, science communication, open engagement of societal actors and open dialogue with other knowledge systems.”
UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, 2021.
The ANR open science monitor
The local adaptation of the national open science monitor measures the open access rate of scientific publications resulting from projects funded through the Work Programme and the France 2030 programme, since the 2016 edition. This tool supports the implementation of ANR’s policy in favour of open access to publications and measure its effects.
Enabling immediate open access to publications and promoting bibliodiversity
The ANR is committed to full and immediate open access to scientific publications while respecting bibliodiversity and the existence of a plurality of publication routes. As such, the ANR is implementing several initiatives to support its commitments:
- Promoting full and immediate open access to publications with a CC BY license
Since 2022, the coordinator and partners of an ANR-funded project commit to make available in immediate open access their scientific publications under a Creative Commons CC BY license or equivalent.
« Applying a CC BY license to your publication guarantees its continued openness and contributes to the dissemination and sharing of knowledge for all. »
- Enrich the HAL-ANR portal, part of the national archive HAL, with publications resulting from ANR projects
Developed in collaboration with the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD), the HAL-ANR portal facilitates the consultation of scientific publications resulting from ANR projects.
To support funded researchers and encourage the adoption of the CC BY license, the ANR has implemented a new feature in HAL since December 2024: if no license has been applied to a document at the time of deposit, a CC BY license will be assigned by default.
Furthermore, in line with the “tell us once” initiative, coordinators of funded projects can find all their publications in OASIS (ANR’s scientific reporting tool) if they are deposited in HAL and linked to their ANR project via the grant identifier (ex: ANR-19-CE21-0004).
- Supporting equitable and innovative publications models
Alongside cOAlition S, OPERAS and Science Europe, the ANR has launched the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access, in order to support and develop an equitable and sustainable open access publishing model led by the scientific community.
The ANR is also a partner of the Global Submit on diamond open access (Mexico 2023; Cape Town 2024 and Bangalore 2026) and supports the European Diamond Capacity Hub launched by OPERAS in January 2025.
ORE – Open Research Europe (copie 1)
The ANR, alongside CNRS and 14 other European research funding and performing organizations, are is supporting the new version of Open Research Europe (ORE). These organizations will work together to ensure that ORE gradually aligns with the principles of Diamond open access defined in the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access. Launched in 2021 by the European Commission, ORE is an innovative publishing platform, with no fees for readers or authors, based on the principle of open peer review. Thanks to this new phase authors affiliated to a French organisation will have the choice to publish in ORE starting in late 2026.
This initiative is in line with the National Plan for Open Science and is supported by the National Fund for Open Science (FNSO).
Sharing, opening and reusing research data and research software
Fostering the adoption of FAIR principles for research data management
The ANR supports European and international alignment efforts on the structure of open research data following the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability), in order to enable a more responsible and transparent research. ANR’s actions to promote data sharing are guided by the principle: “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.
The Agency draws coordinators’ attention to the importance of considering data management and data sharing at the project development phase. It is required by all projects funded since 2019 to produce a Data Management Plan (DMP), a document that summarizes the description and evolution of datasets, and prepares for the sharing, reuse and preservation of data. ANR recommends the use of the structured common template available on the online tool DMP OPIDoR.
The structured Data Management Plan
The use of the structured common template facilitates the writing of a DMP for the researchers, and enables more automatic processing and analysis of DMPs’ content. The structured common template is inspired from the template designed by Science Europe, and presents the same questions reorganized into topic forms to help addressing them. This template enables:
- the automatic completion of already provided administrative information through interoperability with the Data Gouv website (data.gouv.fr)
- the selection of a type for each research output to be described in the DMP (dataset, software, model, physical object, workflow, image, sound, …)
- the use of controlled ontologies to describe the research outputs
- the structuration of the information in a human- and machine-readable format
- the option to share automatically and continuously the content of the DMP with the ANR (link to the news post)
The Open Science Network of French funding agencies recommends to write a DMP using the structured common template available on the online tool DMP OPIDoR.
Promoting a concerted approach of open science
- At the national level
The ANR works with members of the French research and innovation community (funding agencies, research bodies, alliances, etc.) to better define and coordinate efforts to promote open access to publications and data. The ANR is represented on the steering committee of the Committee for Open Science’s permanent secretariat. In addition, the Agency coordinates the Open Science Network of French funding agencies, which gathers ADEME, Anses, ANRS-MIE, FRM and INCa, signatories of the Joint Statement in support of Open Science.
- At the European and international levels
The ANR is also involved in various cross-border initiatives, in which it advances the French position in favour of open science. For example, ANR is a co-founder and a member of cOAlition S, which brings together several funding bodies to accelerate the transition to full and immediate open access to scientific publications, and it supports the Plan S. ANR is also a member of the Science Europe open science group. The ANR launched with cOalition S, OPERAS and Science Europe the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access. It has been a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration since 2018 (DORA) and is a member of the Coalition for Research Assessment (COARA). Since 2024, the Agency is also a signatory of the Barcelona Declaration on open research information. In 2025, the ANR supports the creation of the European Diamond Capacity Hub and is one of the research funding agencies supporting the development of the ORE platform.
Launching dedicated calls for proposals
The ANR also promotes open science by launching dedicated calls for proposals or by partnering with international calls.
Visit the dedicated page to open science calls on data anr
« Tell us once »: a principle to support open science practices
In an effort to simplify administrative procedures for researchers and promote open science practices, the ANR is developing its open science policy based on the “Tell us once” principle:
- Deposit of the data relating to funded projects in data.gouv.fr
- Automatic completion of the administrative information relating to funded projects when submitting in HAL and when writing a DMP on DMP OPIDoR thanks to the interoperability with data.gouv.fr
- Simplified retrieval of DMP content through the use of the structured common DMP template and the DMP sharing functionality between DMP OPIDoR and the ANR’s scientific reporting tool OASIS.
- Retrieval and consultation of publications deposited in HAL in OASIS, the scientific project reporting tool. The same principle applies to datasets deposited in Recherche Data Gouv.
- Automatic assignment of a CC BY license for publications deposited in the HAL-ANR portal if no license has been specified.
Read more
The French Open Science Strategy (SSO) 2026–2033
Contact: scienceouverte(at)anr.fr
