FNRS Open Access Workshop 2011

28 September, Brussels

Access to Scientific Information

The Role of the EU

Carl-Christian Buhr

European Commissionhttp://bit.ly/cc_buhr, @ccbuhr

(All expressed views are those of the speaker.)http://slidesha.re/euopenaccess2

The European Commission as...

...Policy MakerLaunches policy debatesInvites Member States to take actionProposes EU legislation

...Funding Agencye.g. Research & Innovation

Access policies for funded research

...Infrastructure BuilderFunds infrastructuresFunds relevant researchSupports networking activities

Why 2011 is important

Multi-Annual EU budget 2014-2020(Proposal June 2011: >EUR 80bn for Research & Innovation)

Post-2013 research funding: Horizon 2020(Legislative proposal foreseen 2011)

European Research Area(Public consultation open until 30 November 2011)

Communication & Recommendation on Scientific Information(Public consultation closed September 2011, adoption 2011/2012)

Neelie Kroes

Digital Agenda

2 Commissioners propose, 27 adopt...

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn

R&I, ERA

... and 2 Legislators need to agree

http://europarl.europa.eu/

http://consilium.europa.eu/

European Parliament

Council of the European Union

http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU,@NeelieKroesEU

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

DAE

101 Actions

http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU,@NeelieKroesEU

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

101 Actions

Advising on...

Research PolicyScientific Informatione-Infrastructuresetc.

http://bit.ly/cc_buhr,@ccbuhr

The Digital Agenda for Europe

“[…] publicly funded research should be widely disseminated through Open Access publication of scientific data and papers”

A Digital Agenda for Europe (COM(2010)245, 19.05.2010),http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52010DC0245(01):EN:NOT

“[…] the Commission will appropriately extend current Open Access publication requirements […]”

The Innovation Union“ [...] the Commission will propose a European Research Area framework and […]seek to ensure […] dissemination [...] of research results, including through open access to publications and data from publicly funded research”.

Innovation Union (COM(2010)546, 06.10.2010),http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52010DC0546:EN:NOT

“ The Commission will promote open access to the results of publicly funded research. It will aim to make open access to publications the general principle for projects funded by the EU research Framework Programmes […]”.

Neelie Kroes

“ Scientific information has the power to transform our lives for the better – it is too valuable to be locked away.” 06/10/2010

“ The question is no longer ‘if’ we should have open access. The question is about ‘how’ we should develop it further and promote it.”02/12/2010

“ Access to scientific results for free, for all, for ever is a compelling vision indeed.”06/04/2011

Status Quo: OA in FP7

http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/open_access

Covers 20% FP7 budget

Best effort mandate

Embargo (6/12 months)

Gold OA costs reimbursable

2011Extend/Generalise OA Pilot

QuestionsHow to get scientists to deposit?Robust & effective mandate: How?Role for Publishers?Funding?

EC: OA in Horizon 2020(publications)

And data?

http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave

” Our Vision is a scientific e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use, and trust of data. In a sense [...] the data themselves become the infrastructure – a valuable asset, on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance”.

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/518

"My goal is to raise awareness of the opportunities represented by scientific data as well as setting out a plan for future developments."

Start slowly, partner, pilot & build infrastructures

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/716

"[T]ruly free access to scientific data is not possible without a coordinated effort of European and global stakeholders to build and sustain an underlying seamless and trusted infrastructure."

Pointers

The EC and open accesshttp://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/open_access

The Digital Agenda for Europehttp://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

Neelie Kroes Speecheshttp://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/518http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/716

Riding the wave – Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, October 2010

http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave

Post-2013 Research Green Paper & Public Consultationhttp://ec.europa.eu/research/csfri/index_en.cfm

More detail on all of this (thank you!)http://slidesha.re/celina_oa

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