A new milestone has been reached in the development of open educational resources for higher education in France: the open interactive ebook Introduction to Legal Studies (Initiation aux études juridiques) is now freely available online for students, teachers and institutions. The project was developed through a partnership between the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire Cujas, the Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne, Éditions Nouveau Monde and Numérique Premium, with the support of the C...

The French consortium Couperin has long been actively engaged in supporting open science infrastructures, fostering both their development and their uptake by the scientific community. In this context, it has steadily strengthened and diversified its support offer for its member institutions. This momentum is reflected in a significant increase in the number of proposals submitted, rising from two in 2019 to twenty-four in 2025, illustrating both the expansion of the scope of supported...

The Interoperability & Networks for Open Science Working Group of the Couperin consortium has developed IMPACT-R, a poster in French addressing the key challenges of interoperability, sustainability, and robustness in research repositories. IMPACT-R provides a clear and operational synthesis of the seven pillars underpinning a sustainable, interoperable repository infrastructure capable of anticipating technological developments, particularly those related to artificial intelligence. The pos...

The Open Science European Conference (OSEC) 2022, organised by the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Recognises that openness improves the quality, efficiency and impact of research, and fosters team science;Reaffirms the need to align what we assess with what we value;Calls for an assessment system where research proposals, researchers, research units and research institutions are evaluated on the basis of their intrinsic merits and impact, rather than on the number of pub...

On December 2021, the Ministry of Higher Education and research issued a Decree on scientific integrity. This decree changes the conservation and availability of data and source codes, the implementation of DMPs and the publication of negative results for the French public research institutions. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000044411360 Its Article 5 provides that the institutions shall define a policy for the conservation, communication and re-use of the raw results of the sci...

Couperin publishes the results of the survey on the publication and open access practices of French researchers conducted in 2019. Thanks to its unique scope, number of respondents (approx.12,000, i.e. 10% of the scientific community) and variety of disciplines, this survey helps to shed light on the way French researchers regard current scientific communication in journals and to grasp their views on open access. The richness of the survey rests largely on the verbatim reports (more than 11,500...

Couperin's aim was to support any project aimed at promoting open science or fostering reflection on open science within the academic community. The proposed actions had to be linked to the National Plan for Open Science launched by the Minister of Higher Education and Research on 4 July 2018 (https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/category/resources/), and had to be focused on these kind of deliverables: filmed interviews of researchers, films, including animated films, promoting open science, serious ...