The challenge of International Open AccessSustaining services

Introductory remarks and background

Starting assumption

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=+Open access

servicesCultural/

behavioural change

Policies

Knowledge exchange partnership

Five key national agencies and bodies within Europe responsible for the development of infrastructure and services to support the use ICT within education and research.

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German Research Foundation

Jisc (United Kingdom)

Denmark’s ElectronicResearch Library

SURF (Netherlands)

CSC – IT Centre for Science (Finland)

Project team

Rob Johnson,Director

Mattia Fosci,Consultant

Saskia Franken,Project manager and consultant – Open Access

Jan Erik Frantsvåg, Open Access adviser and researcher

Defining the problem

Defining the problem

1. On what services do OA policies depend?

2. What are the risks to policy implementation?

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OA archiving

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OA compliance

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How do policies relate to services?

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Policies

Compliance

Services

Standards

How do policies relate to services?

»Interdependent

»Organic

»Transnational

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Which services matter most?

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So, what is the problem?

1. Governance2. Sustainability3. Fragmentation4. Incoherence

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Services

Infrastructure

A solution?

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»Do nothing?

»Support only the most important services?

»Body or architecture to oversee OA services?

An international body to oversee OA services

To promote and facilitate the development of an open scholarly infrastructure, in support of the transition to widespread open access to published scholarly outputs.

Mission:»Maintain a register of the

most important OA services

»Make recommendations on their funding, sustainability and the need for new services

»Collect and distribute funding from funders/HEIs to service providers

Activities

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An international body to oversee OA services

»Gauge stakeholder support»New or existing body?»European or global?»Determine mechanisms for funding, governance and decision-making

Next steps

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Thank you, and questions?Feedback welcome, now or by emailNeil JacobsHead of scholarly communications supportneil.jacobs@jisc.ac.uk

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Rob JohnsonDirector, Research Consultingrob.johnson@researchconsulting.co.uk