Making the outcome of publicly-funded research available to all has become a societal request and requirement from the states over a few years’ time only. This request has different objectives:
• Keep publicly-covered publication costs to a reasonable value, focusing on the needs (peer-review-, high-quality typesetting, archiving) and avoid the over-taxation of the research outputs by privately-run publishers
• Ensure the best use of public research, making its outcome broadly available. This address innovation, as many small and medium-size companies may not have means to subscribe to private journals, as well as equity among the academics, so that access to knowledge is not determined by funding.
• Long-term archiving and sovereignty of the states and societies, in case of the disruption of publishing societies.
Endorsing these objectives, a French team of researches and archivists gathered all works of Louis Néel and make them publicly available, 50 years after the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Louis Néel, precisely with a ceremony on 10/12/1970. These works may be perpetually browsed and downloaded from the French repository HAL:
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/LOUISNEEL.
This Grenoble-based initiative brings together a number of different laboratories and government agencies: Universities, CNRS, CEA, Spintec, Institut Néel, LNCMI, ILL and ESRF.
Information on the ceremonies related to the anniversary of the 50th anniversary of Louis Néel's Nobel Prize.