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Logo area. Open Access policy guidelines for research funders. Name. Date, location. The European policy context. European Commission: Open circulation of knowledge is one of the five priorities of the European Research Area (ERA)
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Logo area Open Access policy guidelines for research funders Name Date, location
The European policy context • European Commission: • Open circulation of knowledge is one of the five priorities of the European Research Area (ERA) • And one of the constituents of Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) • Recommendation to Member States (July 2012) • Open Access pilot for FP7 (until end-2013) • Open Access mandatory policy for all Horizon 2020 research (2014-20) • Open Data pilot for Horizon 2020 • More than half the 700+ Open Access policies are in Europe
Open Access policies worldwide Data: ROARMAP: http://roarmap.eprints.org/ (data point October 2015)
Numbers and types of OA policymakers Data: ROARMAP: http://roarmap.eprints.org/ (data point October 2015)
Open Access essentials • Free online access to research outputs (journal articles, books, data) • Provided in three main ways: • Through author ‘self-archiving’ in repositories (‘Green’ OA) • Publishing in Open Access journals (‘Gold’ OA) or as OA articles in subscription journals (‘Hybrid Gold’ OA): • Publishing Open Access books
Benefits of an Open Access policy: funders • Improved monitoring of the quality and transparency of the research they fund • Higher return on their investment by the re-use and higher visibility of the results of the research they fund • Enhanced innovation potential of research institutions and research-intensive SMEs • New and innovative ways of performing research (e.g.Textand Data Mining and machine-intensive research methods) • Enable new collaborations, interdisciplinary and international research • Foster science-literate and research-literate citizens and enhance citizen science • Gradually save on expensive journals subscriptions
Benefits of an Open Access policy: researchers • Increases the visibility of, and showcases, their research • Increases the usage of their research • Increases the impact of their research (citations) • Repository enables them to collect all their outputs in a safe, permanent location • Repository provides information on usage and impact • Repository provides personalised publication lists to be used in grant applications, CVs and when writing articles
The Open Access policy at a glance • Aligns with the European Commission’s H2020 policy • Mandatory • Requires immediate deposit of research outputs in a repository at acceptance for publication but respects reasonable embargoes required by publishers • Encourages publishing in Open Access journals and monographs • Specifies that publishing costs are eligible project costs and grant money may be spent on them: specifies limits that can be spent per project or per year and disallows publication in ‘hybrid’ journals • Specifies the licence to be used for Open Access articles • Links compliance with project reporting, future funding requests and performance evaluation
Policy implementation: useful steps • Assessment of the policies of the European Commission and comparator organisations internationally • Dialogue and collaborative approach with stakeholders • Establishment of the relevant e-infrastructure (e.g. repository and/or CRIS/research bibliography) • Formulation of the policy • Guidance and training of researchers in compliance • Provision of incentives and rewards for compliance • Clarification of sanctions for non-compliance • Compliance monitoring mechanism(s) • Provision of resources for the long term sustainability of the services needed to support the policy
Practical checklist • Research and map relevant comparator policies • Involve stakeholders • Formulate the policy • Include the clause in grant agreements • Assess infrastructural provision and plan developments where necessary • Guidance and support for researchers • Provision for reward for compliance and sanction for non-compliance • Establish mechanism to monitor compliance • Mechanism to evaluate efficacy of the policy • Resourcing and sustainability plan for supporting the policy
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