HAL is a multidisciplinary open archive. Researchers can submit their own scientific articles with the agreement of their co-authors and in compliance with the publishers' policy.
In order to securely identify researchers with the same name, there are different identifiers: ISNI, IdRef, VIAF, ORCID, ResearcherID, idHAL... If some of them are created and attributed automatically by the national libraries, others are not.
Crossref is a DOI registration agency (Link to DOI article). The list of agencies is available on the International DOI Foundation website. Organisation...
Mir@bel is a contraction of "Mutualisation d'Informations sur les Revues et leurs Accès dans les Bases En Ligne" (Mutualisation of Information on Journals and their Access in Online Databases). It is a portal for reporting access to French electronic scientific journals. The platform...