Overview for TL;DR people
Open Science policies
Gwen Franck, OpenCon 2015 Advocacy Day 16/11/2015

What is a policy/mandate?
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»Research institution, funder or gov’t
» Researchers, staff, grant recipients
» Make research (publications, data) available as OA
» Self-archiving and/or OA publishing
» Can be voluntary of mandatory
» End goal: as much research output in Open Access ASAP

About Mandates and Policies
»Over 700 Open Access policies worldwide
»Over 700 variations
»Big rise # last year(s)
› Data
› Open Access publishing
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A good policy
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»Deposit
› In a repository (institutional, subject, …)
› Open Access publishing
»Timing
› At the moment of (acceptance) of publication
› Reasonable embargoes (6/12 M) or (preferably) none
»Not waivable

An ideal policy
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»All of the above, plus:
› Link to research assessment
› Attention for infrastructure
› Author’s rights
› Research Data

Strong policy/mandates
» Leverage for researcher in author/publisher negotiations
» Carrot and stick!
» Best case scenario (e.g. Université de Liège):
› High compliancy rate
› Open becomes key element of research cycle
› Research assessment tool
» Budgetary benefits (?)
› NB: lots of experimentation with Gold Open Access fees at this point
› Need for price cap/offset by publisher
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EXAMPLES
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»Funders
› H2020 (ERA)
– http://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/index.cfm?pg=policy&lib=science
› NIH (US)
– https://publicaccess.nih.gov/
› HEFCE (UK)
– http://www.hefce.ac.uk/rsrch/oa/Policy/
› FCT (PT)
– https://www.fct.pt/acessoaberto/index.phtml.en
› NRF (SA)
– http://www.nrf.ac.za/media-room/news/statement-open-access-research-publications-
national-research-foundation-nrf-funded
• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
• http://roarmap.eprints.org/

EXAMPLES
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»Institutions : strong mandate (deposit = required)
› Université de Liège (BE)
– http://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/index.cfm?pg=policy&lib=science
› University of Minho (PT)
– https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/about/docs/Despacho_RT-98_2010.pdf
» Open Access policy
› Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE)
– http://openaccess.mpg.de/286390/Activities
» Open Access publishing = required
› CERN
– http://cds.cern.ch/record/1955574/files/CERN-OPEN-2014-049.pdf

EXAMPLES
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»National ‘strategies’
› Slovenia
–http://www.mizs.gov.si/fileadmin/mizs.gov.si/pageuploads/Znanost/do
c/Zakonodaja/Strategije/National_strategy_for_open_access_21._9.
_2015.pdf

DATA
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»Open Data policies
› Lots of experimentation, often still in pilot phase
–H2020 Open Data Pilot
–http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-1257_en.htm
› Requires a holistic approach
–Data management
–Infrastructure
–Deposit
–Preservation

More information
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»www.pasteur4oa.eu
»www.openaire.eu
»www.fosteropenscience.eu
»www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
»roarmap.eprints.org/
»www.opendoar.org
»www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
» Images from http://pasteur4oa-dataviz.okfn.org/ , memes from the interwebs (come on, it’s educational!)

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Contact…
Gwen Franck
EIFL
gwen.franck@eifl.net
@g_fra