Creating an Academic Research Catalog: Intentions, Challenges, and Achievements[Concevoir un catalogue de recherche universitaire : intentions, enjeux et réalisations]

The UCLR project aims to structure, highlight, and pool the research products of La Rochelle Université in a spirit of open, interdisciplinary and territorial science. Designed as a digital infrastructure serving researchers, services, and local partners, UCLR helps to reference, document, and showcase diverse research products (data, models, digital tools...). This report traces the implementation of the project, after three years of funding and development, in a context of research practices transformation related to open science. Faced with the heterogeneity of uses, the diversity of disciplines, and the growing number of research products, the UCLR tool was designed as an institutional response aimed at structuring, sharing, and hightlighting these products at the scale of La Rochelle Université. Now that the first phase of funding has come to an end, the project has reached a significant level of maturity: the platform is operational, maintained, and already sustained. The report thus marks the end of the start-up phase and opens up the challenges of consolidation, community building, and longer-term planning. UCLR currently appears to be an infrastructure that will thrive through its uses, collective commitment, and lasting anchoring in the institution's scientific and local governance policy.