Open Access Conference 2011

10 June, Copenhagen

The European Commissionand Open Access

Carl-Christian Buhr

European Commission

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

The European Commission as...

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

...Funding Agencye.g. Research & InnovationAccess policies for funded research

...Infrastructure BuilderFunds infrastructuresFunds relevant researchSupports networking activities

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

EC: 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

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

Communication & Recommendation on Scientific Information

Plus: Recommendation to Member States

Public Hearing: Luxemburg, 30 May 2011

Public online consultation: June 2011

Adoption: By end 2011

„ The Communication will take stock of the developments in the area of access to scientific information, and will outline the next steps the Commission will take.”

Commission Work Programme 2011, p. 74

EC: 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 the CSF

Questions

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

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."

EC: Infrastructure Builder

http://www.openaire.eu

http://www.oapen.org

http://europeana.eu

link, maintain, extend

Several new projects currently under review to start soon, e.g. OpenAIRE plus

How to help?

Citizens demand access

Funders mandate

Researchers deposit & nudge journals

Librarians create & link repositories

Publishers build bridges & cross over

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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