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