EIFL Open Access UpdateIryna KuchmaEIFL Open Access Programme Manager

Presentation at EIFL General Assembly, Istanbul, November 11, 2014

www.eifl.netAttribution 4.0 International

Open access (OA) is free, immediate, online access to the results of research, coupled with the right to use those results in new and innovative ways

European Commission

As of April 2014, more than 50% of the scientific papers published in 2007, 2008, 2009,

2010, 2011, and 2012 can be downloaded for free on the Internet.

(Proportion of Open Access Papers Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals at the European and World Levels—1996–2013: http://www.science-metrix.com/en/publications/reports#/en/publications/reports/proportion-of-open-access-papers-published-in-peer-reviewed-journals-at-the)

1.

OA policy development (institutional, national & international)

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation & Science: “Putting research results in the public sphere makes science better & strengthens our knowledge-based economy. The European taxpayer should not have to pay twice for publicly funded research. That is why we have made OA to publications the default setting for Horizon 2020, the EU research & innovation funding programme."

publishes in OA journals

or in journals that sell subscriptions and also offer the possibility of making individual articles openly accessible (hybrid journals)

publishes in subscriptions journals

deposits a machine-readable e-copy of the published version/a final peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication in institutional/subject-based/Zenodo repository as soon as possible and at the latest on publication

ensures open access via the repository within six months of publication (12 months for publications in the social sciences & humanities)

deposits as soon as possible and at the latest on publication, if an electronic version is available for free via the publisher

Image courtesy of http://aukeherrema.nl/ CC-BY

Requirements of the Horizon2020 Open Research Data pilot

1. Develop (and update) a Data Management Plan

2. Deposit in a research data repository

3. Make it possible for third parties to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate data – free of charge for any user

4. Provide information on the tools and instruments needed to validate the results (or provide the tools)

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http://aukeherrema.nl/ CC-

BY

OpenAIRE

Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe

PASTEUR4OA

Open Access Policy Alignment STrategies for European Union Research "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch that illuminates the world."

Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895

OA policies (mandates) that ensure that research funded by institutions is made freely available have

now been adopted by 68

institutions in the EIFL network

2. OA advocacy

Eight OA advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities have been successfully implemented in Armenia, Belarus, China, Estonia, Ethiopia, Moldova, Poland and Serbia (you've just seen the posters)

“OA: knowledge sharing and sustainable scholarly communication in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda” project have been successfully implemented co-funded by Spider, the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions DSV, Department of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm University.

Talk to Rosemary (KLISC), Florence (COTUL) and Paul

(CUUL)

“One idea I can give other students to spread the word about OA is to make people aware about OA by raising its visibility on campus. This can be done by posting OA posters and flyers all over the campus, setting up a projector in front of the library and showing short videos related to OA and organizing a talk program between the students and librarians.”

“One idea I can give other students to spread the word about OA is to start up student advocacy groups and clubs within their institutions which through capacity building and skills development can engage other students, members of university faculty, librarians and other key stakeholders on the importance of OA.” Clark Azubuike, University of Benin

“One idea I can give other students to spread the word about OA is to form advocacy groups and engage relevant stakeholders. They should identify and collaborate with existing OA supporters in their institutions.”

"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has" - Margaret Mead.

"One idea I can give other students to spread the word about OA is to get informed about the policies at their institutions, applaud good practices and push for even better ones. Tell your peers why OA matters and build a knowledge-action chain!"

“One idea I can give other students to spread the word about OA is to capture the interest of new students immediately after they join the school. If the OA culture is cultivated from the onset, it becomes that much easier to use it and refer other people to it. New students are usually open to ideas and they are very receptive.”

OA advocacy through embedding

Share good practices on embedding OA repositories within institutional processes and individual research workflows and encourage changes in institutional culture to increase impact that openly distributed scholarship is able to have

Attend our November 24 webinar where Pablo de Castro of the euroCRIS board explores why and how OA institutional repositories and and CRIS interoperability should be implemented

OA advocacy through sustainability models

Explore sustainability models for OA journals and book publishing in the EIFL network countries and demonstrate that costs of OA can be recovered without adding more money to the current system of scholarly communication

OA advocacy through new metrics for research assessment and evaluation

Work with universities, research organisations and national research funders on the pilot projects that explore new metrics for research assessment and evaluation

To learn more attend our webinar in December

OA advocacy through reuse

Promote CC-BY or an equivalent license as the optimal license for OA journals in the EIFL network countries via updated Report on the implementation of open content licenses in developing and transition countries

3.

Strengthen and grow a sustainable network of OA champions in EIFL partner countries and reinforce local capacity in the management of OA journals and repositories

Joint ARL/CARL/COAR/LIBER Task Force

Librarians’ Competencies in

Support of E-Research and

Scholarly Communication

Competency areas: Scholarly Communication & OA

Roles involved:• Scholarly publishing services• Copyright & OA advocacy & outreach• Scholarly resource assessment

Competency areas: Research Data Management (RDM)

Roles involved:• Providing access to data• Advocacy & support for managing data• Managing data collections

Activity Report

Working Group 1:

Repository Content

Silvia Nakano

May 21, 2014

COAR General Assembly 2014,

Athens, Greece

Competency areas: DH

Services/Tasks/Functions/Responsibilities• Scholarly communication & publishing• Technical services • Digital Humanities Research and Consulting• Teaching/training• Space/Collaboratories

What we can do together in 2015

OA policy discussion

OA advocacy workshops/campaigns where we see an opportunity for a change in policies

Sharing experiences & expertise

Webinars and other knowledge sharing events to support advocacy and capacity building

Thank you! Questions?

iryna.kuchma@eifl.net

www.eifl.net