Trip Report: Open-Access-Tage2012

26. September - 27. September 2012 an der Universität Wien

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Eröffnunskeynote: Limited access is a symptom, not the disease

PD Dr. Björn Brembs, FU-Berlin und Universtität Leipzig

Crises 1: dysfunctional scholarly literature

• limited access
• no global search
• no hyperlinks
• no data visualization
• no submission standards
• almost no statistics
• no text-/data-mining
• no effective way to sort, filter and and discover
• no scientific impact analysis
• no networking feature

--> It's like the web in 1995

Crisis 2: Scientific data in peril

• cut of fundings
• no funds for persistent software development

--> data is in danger

Crisis 3: Non-existent software-archives

• reproduction as qualitiy-assurance for scientific publication is not possible

My digital utopia (technical almost feasable today)

• no more corporate publishers: librarys archive everything and make it publicy accessible according to a world-wide standard.
• single semantic, decentralized database of literature, data and software

Roadblocks

• more scientists, more publications
• only read publications of high-rank journals
• job applications request publications in high-rank journals
• only publish in high-rank journals

--> political issues

Metriken

• impact factor: negotiable, irreproducible, mathematically unsound
• article metric levels are relevant! Journal metrics don't promote.

Money

• corporate publishers' profits can easily finance all reforms

--> Roadblocks are political issues

Open Access in Horizon 2020 and the European Research Area

Daniel Spichtinger, Policy Officer, European Commission

• The European Commission is:
  • Policy Maker: consultations, debates, proposes for EU legislation
  • Funding agency: FP7,Horizon 2020, sets access and dissemination

rules for funded research

• • (Infra)structure funder and capacity builder: pan-European Open Data Portal, OpenAIRE etc., Supports networking activities

• Two commissionars of open access:
  • Vice-President Neelie Kroes: Digital Agenda, Digital single market
  • Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn: Research & Innovation, European Research Area (ERA, Innovation Union

• Objectives
  • Develop and implement open access to research results from projects funded by the EU Research Framework Programmes (Including fund research and support activities in the

area of open access)

• • Encourage national policy initiatives aiming at improving access to and preservation of scientific information
  • Contribute to policy co-ordination between Member States

• OA in FP7
  • OA Pilot in FP7
    • best efforts to provide OA mandate
    • 7 research areas (>than 1300 projects)
    • 20% of FP7 total budget (2007-2013)
    • survey (summer 2011)
  • European Research Council
    • Updated scientific Council guidlines for OA (2011)
  • OPENAIRE
  • EU-funded portal (incl. monitoring, 27 000 publications, 9577 are OA)
  • OPENAIRE+: Linking of publications with datasets

• Gold Open Access in FP7
  • OA publishing costs are eligible in FP7
    • Since the beginning of FP7, for all projects
    • Limited to duration of projecs
  • EC survey (Summer 2011)
    • >50% did not know the possibility
    • Only 8 projects out of 194 answers reported they used it
    • For 72% of respondents, reimbursement of Gold OA is restricted by the fact that most publishing activities occur after the project end
    • Almost 70% of respondents think it is better to use selfarchiving to satisfy the OA requirement in FP7

• What are we proposing for OA in Horizon 2020:
  • OA mandate: Obligation to provide OA
    • All areas
    • Peer-reviewed publications
    • Allowed embargos: 6/12 months
    • Plus: 'pilot' for research data
  • OA publishing costs
    • Eligible while project runs
    • Plus (tbc): possibility to cover later publications, under conditions to define Gold

Freie Universität Berlin

7th Framework Programme by the European Union

Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe

Open Access