20121026 open access in belgium

Open Access in Belgium

an overview

Open Access Belgium

• UGent & ULg

• We’re looking for input! Contact us if you want to make a contribution.

• www.openaccess.be

• @openaccess_be

• [email protected]

Open Access to Excellence in Research, Brussels, 22/10/2012

COAR

• Birgit Schmidt, Göttingen University (UGOE), Germany • www.coar-repositories.org

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories is a young, fast growing association of repository initiatives and networks, uniting and representing more than 90 institutions worldwide (Europe, Asia, Latin America, Northern America). COAR’s mission is to facilitate greater visibility and application of research through a global network of Open Access repositories, based on interoperability and international cooperation. Through its member institutions, COAR is working towards the development of a global Open Access repository community of practice from across institutions, countries, regions and disciplines. Our vision is a global knowledge infrastructure of networking Open Access repositories.

Open Access to Excellence in Research,

Brussels, 22/10/2012

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COAR - Towards Global Networks of Open Access

Repositories

Dr. Birgit Schmidt, Goettingen State and University Library

Brussels, 22 October 2012

“Open Access to Excellence in Research”

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Who we are

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories is a young, fast growing association of repository initiatives and networks, uniting and representing more than 90 institutions worldwide (Europe, Asia, Latin America, Northern America)

Most recent new members (August 2012):

• La Referencia, 9 institutions in Latin America

• Vilnius University, Lithuania

• Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey

http://www.coar-repositories.org/




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Our vision

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• To facilitate greater visibility and application of public funded research outputs

• To promote and support a global network of Open Access repositories

To be the leading, independent, worldwide organisation

of open access repository communities

Our mission

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COAR Strategic directions 2012-2015

COAR strategy will focus on Community, Leadership and Support at an international scope

1. To promote the development of a global, sustainable network of open access

repositories as key element of the evolving international scientific information

infrastructure, including social sciences and humanities, in support of excellence in

research and education

2. To provide support for the OA repository community from institutions, countries, regions

and disciplines, through international cooperation and information sharing

3. To define and promote interoperability, standards, and infrastructure policies

4. To stimulate the development and take-up of user added-value services on top of the

repositories

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Benefits for COAR members

• Significant cost and time savings, as the premium access to practitioners in their field reduces staff effort at institutional, national and regional level

• Participation in the COAR Annual Meeting and regional workshops/seminars, internationally and in your region; target group-specific, intense and fruitful exchange of experiences from around the world

• Individual Helpdesk/Mentoring Services (planned) – e.g. You want to install a repository system or a new service (e.g. statistics)?

We mediate you to practitioners who will support you.

• Support for regions and of COAR meetings

• COAR Studies, Roadmaps, etc. to inform and influence the development of research infrastructures

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If you are engaged in the development of repositories, their

networks and want to exploit their full potential as research

infrastructure…

we will be delighted to welcome you as a new COAR

member!

Contact:

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]



ULB Open Access Collections

• Françoise Vandooren, Archives & Libraries Head Office, Université libre de Bruxelles

• [email protected] • www.bib.ulb.ac.be

The Archives & Libraries of Université libre de Bruxelles are providing open access to digital collections such as the Digithèque, collections of digitized books and articles, including recent books published by Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles which are out of print ; DI-fusion, the institutional repository; collections of digital images used as teaching and learning support. We have recently agreed on a partnership with OpenEdition to develop digital publishing technical expertise in the Libraries in order to support open access journal publishing in the university.


Open Access Collections @ULB

Françoise Vandooren Archives & Libraries

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Digitized books and articles

Digithèque: 7 collections of digitized books and articles

http://digitheque.ulb.ac.be

Quality rather than Quantity...


ca. 160 000 pages

University cultural heritage

Thematic collections

ULB HISTORY

Free Thinking


ca. 5400 pages

Work of famous professors

who taught at ULB


H. Laurent

H. Pirenne

P. Gilbert


ca. 10 200 pages


Books published by Editions de l’Université de

Bruxelles

Problèmes d'histoire du Christianisme Problèmes d'histoire des religions Etudes sur le 18e siècle Sextant


ca. 38 000 pages

Thematic collections Belgian literary journals from early 20th century

ca. 45 000 pages



TOTAL > 260 000 pages

Institutional Repository

http://difusion.academiewb.be

Academic bibliography Added value functionalities


Document Type

Metadata

Full Text

License Validation

Link to Sherpa/Romeo and help on copyright issues

Open Access to full text


Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles : Green Publisher


Image Collections

Digital Image Collections

ULB HISTORY

http://icono.ulb.ac.be

30 collections 10 000 images

Towards Electronic Journal Publishing Support

Partnership with OpenEdition

www.bib.ulb.ac.be

Foyer culturel

Solbosch - ULB

Jeudi 25 octobre

12h – 14h

Libre accès à l’information scientifique.

Pourquoi? Comment?

TABLE RONDE

OPEN ACCESS

Creating support for OA, a grassroots approach

• Hannelore Vanhaverbeke (KUL) • [email protected]

The University of Leuven actively promotes Open Access amongst its researchers. Full texts can easily be deposited in the university’s institutional repository and researchers can opt for public access to their articles. Instead of relying exclusively on a top-down approach, the support of OA-enthusiasts of different backgrounds and stages in their career is harnessed to spread the message on the work floor. This initiative is still in its infancy, but we hope to have given a start to a “grass roots” movement strengthening support for Open Access.”



Creating Support for Open Access

A Grass Roots Approach at the University of Leuven

Hannelore Vanhaverbeke Research Coordination Office University of Leuven

Open Access at Leuven University

• No OA/full text upload mandate

• Policy: Green Road (through repository ‘Lirias’) stimulated

– for post-prints (post-review)

– for international journal articles

• PhDs: obligatory archiving since 2006


• uploading of a variety of formats possible

• different degrees of accessibility

– public (= OA) – private – intranet - embargo

• direct link to SherpaRoMEO based on journal ISSN

• tracking paper impact : integrated Google Analytics (nr and origin of views & downloads)

• OA helpdesk

• information sessions


• ca. 278.500 entries in the repository

– largest OA repository in Belgium, 15th worldwide (http://roar.eprints.org/)

– 31.000 entries with at least 1 upload (mainly text pdf)

• = 11%

– of which 17.300 OA

• = 6% of all entries

• 56% of all entries with uploads

http://roar.eprints.org/




entries without uploads

89%

entries with uploads

11%

OA 56%

Intranet 35%

Private 9% Embargo

Not mandated

Open Access at Leuven University • Since Febryary 2012

– Data on uploads and OA tracked

– Increase in nr of entries with uploaded files (text)

– Decrease in nr of OA uploads

– => message of provide your entries with full texts well received

– But: people seem to be hesitant to provide OA

Open Access at Leuven University • Unnecessary hesitation for OA!

– just provide the correct paper version

Open Access at Leuven University • On the one hand

– a small group of researchers uploading full texts, data files etc.

– with a clear predilection for OA

• On the other hand

– centrally promoted OA, no mandate

Open Access at Leuven University – a small group of researchers uploading full texts,

data files etc.

– with a clear predilection for OA

• => local support engaged: OA ambassadors (“Grassroots” approach)

– = volunteers, researchers (pre- & post PhD, professors) OA enthousiasts, locally promoting OA in their faculties/departments, geared towards specific publication behaviour and ‘anxieties’ in their field

Open Access Ambassadors • Interviews & editorials

– Campuskrant

– Newsletter RCO

• Local information sessions

• Local debate fora

• Local contact person for OA questions

Open Access Ambassadors

Monitoring OA, a Pilot Study in Belgium and the EU

• Paola Di Maio (ISTCS.org) • [email protected] • istcs.org

The Open Access Monitor (OAM) methodology was developed to enable the remote auditing of open access resources, and a study was carried out in the UK, showing that over 50% of publicly funded research projects do not produce knowledge resources that can be found via searches on the open web. This talks introduces the methodology, the outcomes of the study and outlines a pilot for a comparative study for Belgium and across the EU.


OPEN ACCESS

MONITORING IN

BELGIUM AND EU

Dr. Paola Di Maio, ISTCS.org

Bruxelles 22 October 2012

Openaccess.be

video commentary of these slides, run while

looking at the slides

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_lIkK

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_lIkKU05A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_lIkKU05A

http://youtube.com/v/3G_lIkKU05A

OVERVIEW

Intro, Background

Research Questions

Challenges

Methodology

Study

Results

Piloting in Belgium and Europe

Contacts

INTRO, BACKGROUND

Research emanates from recently completed

PhD work (2009-2012)

An independent research institute (ISTCS.org)

was formed in 2009 to serve as umbrella

organisation to develop the outcomes of the

research further

The institute is a virtual global multilingual entity

with multilingual physical presence through

partner networks

PROBLEM

I set off to carry out research with funding from

an EPSRC project (NECTISE), however I

was unable to determine the state of the art

because I could not access research

outcomes, the few papers that I could access

did not have the information/data I expected

to contain

Various issues and questions surfaced, in this

talk I only cover one, in the following slide.

RESEARCH QUESTION and

CHALLENGES 1) Why, despite the existence of open access policies,

many research outcomes generated with public funding

are not accessible as shared knowledge resources?

2) How many actual open access resources (papers and

other knowledge outcomes) are produced per funded

project?

(some of the) CHALLENGES

• Few studies available, very few datasets about OA

• No method to quantify/track open access outputs

• Specialised, skill intensive task, and not enough human

resources available to track/monitor

METHOD

Overall study of a complex socio technical

problem space adopted EBR (Evidence Based

Research) and MMR (Mixed Method

Research)

Method developed is called OAM (Open Access

Monitor), consisting of a process, a set of

templates to enable 'anyone' to monitor the

adoption of open access policies

The first study was

carried out over

100 EPSRC

funded projects

in the UK,

in a specific

domain

(systems

engineering research).

STUDY

EXTENDING THE STUDY

TWO DIRECTIONS:

EXTEND TO OTHER DOMAINS (In part

already done in the UK, where smaller

studies were carried out in neighbouring

disciplines)

EXTEND TO OTHER COUNTRIES (the

purpose of this talk)

PILOTING IN BELGIUM AND EU

DO

a EU wide study, starting with Belgium, then

extend to other countries:

- locate a suitable set of publicly funded

portfolios (looking for a similar number,

approx 100)

- carry out OAM audits

- Ccmpare qualitatively and quantitatively the

outcomes and draw conclusions

challenge: language (english only)

FUTURE STEPS AND PARTNERS

SETTING UP A NON FOR PROFIT ORGANISATIONAL

ENTITY OF SORTS

FIND PARTNERS TO FORM A EU WIDE CONSORTIUM?

LOOK FOR SUITABLE RESEARCH FUNDING AND/OR

AN ECONOMIC MODEL FOR THE WORK

Related work presented at Digital Research Oxford 2012

Monitoring Open Access as a Web Service

(links to a poster)

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5XeDqbLLqHSLUpuU3FUTExLTU0

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5XeDqbLLqHSLUpuU3FUTExLTU0

CONNECT and COLLABORATE

Thank you, if interested to work together on this

please let's talk!!

Best regards

Paola.dimaio(*&@*7%g/m/a/i/l)

OA journals, between access and visibility

• Margaux Hardy (ULB)


“I would like to put into perspective the political claim for taxpayer access to publicly funded research with the scientific need for visibility”


OA and Open Data initiatives at the RMCA

• Boris Jacob (Royal Museum for Central Africa) • [email protected] • http://www.africamuseum.be • @africamuseumbe The Museum aspires to be a world centre of research and knowledge dissemination on past and present societies and natural environments of Africa, and in particular Central Africa. The talk will give an overview of the Open Access and Open Data activitites we take part in, give examples of our content, and elaborate on the national and international collaborations.



Dspace in Belgium and beyond

• Bram Luyten (@mire) • [email protected] • www.atmire.com With over 1300 installations world wide, DSpace has come a long way since the Open Source software was originally designed by HP and MIT in 2002. Bram Luyten will present Belgian institutions relying on DSpace to enable Green Open Access policies, as well as broader international examples. Newcomers to the topic will learn the different uses of DSpace, while more experienced participants receive a high level overview of recent evolutions and anticipated new features.


OA in Historical Demography. Opportunities and challenges

• Paul Puschmann (KUL)


The European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS) is trying to launch an open access journal in historical demography. On the one hand, this talk will give insight into the opportunities Open Access offers for this specific branch of research in terms of free access to data, scripts and research results. On the other hand, some of the practical obstacles on the road to open access will be elucidated on the basis of personal experiences.



Open Access in Historical

Demography

- Presentation at the Open Access Week - Brussels, Paleis der Academiën

22 October 2012

Paul Puschmann & Koen Matthijs Family and Population Studies (FaPOS)

KU Leuven, Belgium

Personal Background

• Ph.D. Student in Historical Demography

• External Specialist of the European Historical Population

Samples Network (EHPS)

o Involved in the establishment of an Open Access

Journal in Historical Demography

• Open Access Ambassador at KU Leuven

o Promoting Green Route of Open Access at the Faculty

of Social Sciences

Open Access to Excellence in

Research, Brussels, 22/10/2012

New Opportunities

• Making research results, extraction programs, scripts,

documentation, etc. freely available for everybody

o Increases visibility and citation chances.

o Enlarges transparency of research and makes results

better verifiable.

o Decreases inequality in access to research results

around the world.

o Decreases dependency of scholars of commercial

publishing houses.



Getting Established is not Easy

Some of the Challenges and Questions

o Getting an overview of costs involved in the

establishment and functioning of the journal.

o Raising durable funding for the journal.

o Who takes up the work publishing houses previously

took care of, e.g. lay-out, language check, proof

reading, etc.?

o Finding people willing to publish in a newly established

Journal of which the future is uncertain.



Risks in the Transition to Open Access

• Moving from restricted access to journal publications to

restricted possibilities to publish.

o reader-paid model is more and more replaced by an

author-paid model

• Longevity of journals might decrease, as funding might

become less sustainable.

• New peer-reviewed journals might be harder to establish,

because of the costs involved. A trend away from peer-

reviewed (and away from quality control) might be the

outcome.



What is Necessary?

• More financial and practical support from universities and

funding agencies, like FWO and ESF.

• More guidance regarding the different pathways to

establish and maintain Open Access journals in practice.

• More institutional promotion, also financially, of Open

Access.

• More collaboration between initiators and editors of

different Open Access Journals.



Using the institutional repository to enhance OA to KCE reports

• Patrice Chalon (KCE)



Open Access @ KCE

Patrice CHALON Open Access week, 2012-10-22

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Visibility Impact Access Conclusion

Journal 1 Good Good Weak

(OA after 3 years)

Best Impact

No open access

Journal 2 Middle Good Good

(OAJ)

Good Impact

Open access

Journal 3 Good Good

Middle (pre-print ok,

post print after 12 months)

Good impact

Self archiving

Journal 4 Good Middle Weak

(post print after 24 months)

Journal 5 Good Middle Weak

(no statement)

Journal 5 Middle Weak Good (OAJ)

A bet for the

future?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/toekneesan/272740480/

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OpenAIRE – Open Access infrastructure for Research in Europe

• Inge Van Nieuwerburgh (UGent)


• Gwen Franck (UGent)



Inge Van Nieuwerburgh Gwen Franck

Ghent University

OpenAIRE and OpenAIREplus

OpenAIRE


EC Open Access policies

Support needed to enable projects / researchers to comply

=> OpenAIRE

Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe

http://www.openaire.eu


http://www.openaire.eu/

Main Goals

Deliver “an electronic infrastructure and supporting mechanisms for the identification, deposition, access, and monitoring of FP7 and ERC funded articles”

Additionally, offer “a special repository for articles that can be stored neither in institutional nor in subject-based/thematic repositories”.

All deposited articles will be visible and freely accessible worldwide through a new portal to the products of EU-funded research, built as part of this project.


Helpdesk

Orphan

repository

OpenAIRE

portal

Guidelines

Guides

Statistics

Project information


OpenAIREplus


41 partners


Technical production & operation

CERN

CNR-ISTI-IT

ICM

NKUA

UniBIE

Communities

– EBI – biology

– DANS – social sciences

– STFC/BADC – climate

Networking Partner

The role of OpenAIREplus

Build a participatory OA infrastructure for scientific information

Use OpenAIRE‘s publication architecture to link to data sets

Cover the entire scientific production of ERA

Mobilising the pan-European network of NOADs


The Project

Based on the OpenAIRE infrastructure

Concept of Linked Publications

And their associated data

Harvest metadata of scientific datasets

Expand publication base to include DRIVER publications


www.openaire.eu

OpenAIRE Belgium:

Gwen Franck: [email protected]

Inge Van Nieuwerburgh: [email protected]

Thank you!


http://www.openaire.eu/



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