What are open access repositories?
An open access repository is a site, managed by an established academic or scientific institution, on which authors can deposit their publications to make them widely and freely available. The repository expects the papers deposited in it to conform to academic usage and quality, but it does not provide an evaluation of these papers. STACS relies on an open access repository, namely HAL, which is managed by the main agencies for public research in France; and on the Dagstuhl online publication server DROPS. In addition, upon agreement of the authors, papers are also deposited on the CoRR (Computing Research Repository), a part of arXiv, established under the auspices of the ACM and Cornell University.