Overview for TL;DR people

Open Science policies

Gwen Franck, OpenCon 2015 Advocacy Day 16/11/2015

What is a policy/mandate?

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»Research institution, funder or gov’t

» Researchers, staff, grant recipients

» Make research (publications, data) available as OA

» Self-archiving and/or OA publishing

» Can be voluntary of mandatory

» End goal: as much research output in Open Access ASAP

About Mandates and Policies

»Over 700 Open Access policies worldwide

»Over 700 variations

»Big rise # last year(s)

› Data

› Open Access publishing

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A good policy

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»Deposit

› In a repository (institutional, subject, …)

› Open Access publishing

»Timing

› At the moment of (acceptance) of publication

› Reasonable embargoes (6/12 M) or (preferably) none

»Not waivable

An ideal policy

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»All of the above, plus:

› Link to research assessment

› Attention for infrastructure

› Author’s rights

› Research Data

Strong policy/mandates

» Leverage for researcher in author/publisher negotiations

» Carrot and stick!

» Best case scenario (e.g. Université de Liège):

› High compliancy rate

› Open becomes key element of research cycle

› Research assessment tool

» Budgetary benefits (?)

› NB: lots of experimentation with Gold Open Access fees at this point

› Need for price cap/offset by publisher

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EXAMPLES

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»Funders

› H2020 (ERA)– http://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/index.cfm?pg=policy&lib=science

› NIH (US)– https://publicaccess.nih.gov/

› HEFCE (UK)– http://www.hefce.ac.uk/rsrch/oa/Policy/

› FCT (PT)– https://www.fct.pt/acessoaberto/index.phtml.en

› NRF (SA)

– http://www.nrf.ac.za/media-room/news/statement-open-access-research-publications-national-research-foundation-nrf-funded

• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet• http://roarmap.eprints.org/

EXAMPLES

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» Institutions : strong mandate (deposit = required)

› Université de Liège (BE)– http://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/index.cfm?pg=policy&lib=science

› University of Minho (PT)– https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/about/docs/Despacho_RT-98_2010.pdf

» Open Access policy

› Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE) – http://openaccess.mpg.de/286390/Activities

» Open Access publishing = required

› CERN– http://cds.cern.ch/record/1955574/files/CERN-OPEN-2014-049.pdf

EXAMPLES

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»National ‘strategies’

› Slovenia

–http://www.mizs.gov.si/fileadmin/mizs.gov.si/pageuploads/Znanost/do

c/Zakonodaja/Strategije/National_strategy_for_open_access_21._9.

_2015.pdf

DATA

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»Open Data policies

› Lots of experimentation, often still in pilot phase–H2020 Open Data Pilot

–http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-1257_en.htm

› Requires a holistic approach–Data management

– Infrastructure

–Deposit

–Preservation

More information

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»www.pasteur4oa.eu

»www.openaire.eu

»www.fosteropenscience.eu

»www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet

»roarmap.eprints.org/

»www.opendoar.org

»www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo» Images from http://pasteur4oa-dataviz.okfn.org/ , memes from the interwebs (come on, it’s educational!)

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Contact…

Gwen FranckEIFL

gwen.franck@eifl.net

@g_fra