OAPEN Conference 2011

25 February, Berlin

Access to Scientific Information

The Role of the EU

Carl-Christian Buhr

European Commission

(All expressed views are those of the speaker.)

The European Commission is......Policy Maker

Launches policy debatesInvites Member States to take actionProposes EU legislation

...Funding AgencyAccess/dissemination rules funded research

...Infrastructure BuilderFunds infrastructuresFunds relevant researchSupports networking activities

EU politics are complicated...

http://europarl.europa.eu/

http://consilium.europa.eu/

http://ec.europa.eu/

…are they?

Neelie Kroes Máire Geoghegan-Quinn

Digital AgendaResearch & Innovation

The College of Commissioners

Policy Maker

Multi-Annual EU budget 2014-{2021, 2024}http://ec.europa.eu/budget/reform/index_en.htm

Post-2013 research fundinghttp://ec.europa.eu/research/csfri/index_en.cfm

Proposal on European Research Areahttp://ec.europa.eu/research/era/index_en.htm

Communication/Recommendation on Scientific Information

Advising on...

Scientific Informatione-Infrastructuresetc.

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

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

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 […]”.

Funding Agency

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

Covers 20% FP7 budget

Best effort mandate

Embargo (6/12m)

Costs reimbursable

What next?

2011Extend/Generalise OA Pilot in next FP

How to get scientists to deposit?Robust & effective mandateFunding?A Role for Publishers?

2012ERA proposals

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."

Infrastructure Builder

http://www.openaire.eu

http://www.oapen.org

http://europeana.eulink, maintain, extend

What can be done?

All demand access & respond to Green Paper

Researchers deposit & nudge their journals

Librarians create & link repositories

Publishers build bridges & cross over

PointersThe EC and open access

http://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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