Trip Report: Open-Access-Tage2012
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26. September - 27. September 2012 an der Universität Wien
Eröffnunskeynote: Limited access is a symptom, not the disease[edit]
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[edit]
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