Open science
The SONAR (Science Ouverte, Numérique et Appui à la Recherche - Open Science, Digital and Research Support) team assists researchers and PhD students with scientific and technical information and document monitoring. It ensures the dissemination of scientific production and coordinates the ENPC's open science plan.
Open Science
École nationale des ponts et chaussées has been involved in the Open Science movement for over 15 years, first through its support for open access to scientific publications, then through its contribution to open data and code.
The École des Ponts' Open Science Plan has 2 objectives:
- % of articles open access
- 100% of research data to be shared, within the scope of European and ANR projects.
To achieve these objectives, 4 actions are being implemented:
- Awareness-raising and support for researchers
- Doctoral training in Open and Integrated Science
- Campaigns to identify non-free publications and encourage their submission to HAL
- Assistance in responding to calls for proposals for data.
The laboratories' scientific output is thus reported and promoted on the ENPC's HAL portal and on the HAL Institut Polytechnique de Paris portal.
83% of École nationale des ponts et chaussées articles published in 2023 are open access.
Theses
The École Polytechnique de Paris has been awarding doctoral degrees since 1978, with a delegation to Université Paris-Est for the period from 2011 to 2020. As of January 1, 2026, theses will be issued by the Institut polytechnique de Paris. The team is responsible for the collection, referencing and legal deposit of theses produced by Doctoral School laboratories.
1000 paper theses are referenced in the library catalog. They can be consulted on site only and on request. If a thesis has not been declared confidential by the jury, and if the author has given permission for it to be published on the Internet, it will be published on the following sites: HAL (including HAL - ENPC and HAL - Institut Polytechnique de Paris), theses.fr. It will also be listed in the library catalog and the SUDOC (Système Universitaire de Documentation).
At national level, theses defended after September 1, 2016 are subject to legal deposit in electronic format for national and perennial archiving in accordance with the decree of May 25, 2016. Please note that theses in preparation are posted on theses.fr.