Trip Report: Open-Access-Tage2012

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

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Eröffnungskeynote: 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, has to be used til project end
- 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 (2014 - 2020)[edit]

OA mandate: Obligation to provide OA
- All areas
- Peer-reviewed publications
- Allowed embargos: 6 (Naturwissenschaften) /12 (GSH) months
- Plus: 'pilot' for research data
OA publishing costs
- Budget noch in Verhandlung
- 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!) (Council kann unabhängige Entscheidung treffen)
- 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
Interaktion mit OA-Projekten, Förderung der Forschung über OA

Three new documents from the European Commission
- A reinforced European Research Area partnership for excellence and growth: The ERA is based on the internal market in which researchers, scientific knowledge and technology circulate freely. There are five priority areas: More effective national research systems, Optimal transnational cooperation and competition, An open labour market for researchers, Gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research and Optimal circulation, access to and transfer of scientific knowledge.
- Recommendation access and preservation of scientific information: Why does better access matter for Europe? The Commission's vision. Where do we stand? Access to publication and data, preservation, international context. What are the barriers to change? Transition to OA to publications, the case of data, long-term preservation. Action at European level. What has the Commission done so far, what are the next steps
- Redommendation on access to and preservation of scientific information: Define and implement clear policies for the dissemination of, and open access to publications and data resulting from publicly funded research. Embargo, copyright, academic career system, SMEs, transparency etc. Reinforce the preservation of scientific information. Further develop/reinforce e-infrastructures. Participate in multi-stakeholder dialogues at all levels. Participate in co-ordination at EU level.

Conclusion[edit]

Both, gold and green access measures should be promoted in the EU
Not all Member States are the same
Open access must be effective, fair,
affordable, competitive and sustainable for researchers and innovative businesses