Trip Report: Open-Access-Tage2012
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- cut of fundings
- no funds for persistent software development
- --> data is in danger
Crisis 3: Non-existent software-archives[edit]
- reproduction as qualitiy-assurance for scientific publication is not possible
My digital utopia (technical almost feasable today)[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- impact factor: negotiable, irreproducible, mathematically unsound
- article metric levels are relevant! Journal metrics don't promote.
Money[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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
Next steps[edit]
- proposal for Open Access in Horizon2020:
- Co-decision with the Council & European Parliament (amendments!)
- By end of 2013: Adoption of legislative acts
- From 2014 Horizon 2020 starts / launch of first calls
- Working with the community, funding infrastructures and relevant projects, coordination beyond the EU
- Three new documents from the European Commission