SPARC Europe's Executive Director outlines progress to date (July 2017) and immediate priorities at its Annual Members Meeting.

1. Vanessa Proudman,
SPARC Europe Members Mee6ng 2017
Making Open the Default

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Membership
118 members
Members from 23 European countries
2 members leave
32 to join =
37% increase

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Funding
Membership fees cover 50% expenses
Open Society Founda6ons
fund secured for 2017 and 2018

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Programme areas
1. Influence Europe’s Open Science and Scholarship
decision-makers and scholars
2. Support the Open Scholarship (OS) support community
in Europe
3. Provide advocacy, guidance, tools and services in
support of the implementa6on and monitoring of open
policies
4. European informa6on-gathering and dissemina6on
including sharing good prac6ce and European
experience

5. Programme Area 1
Influence Europe’s Open Science
and Scholarship decision-makers
and scholars

6. RISE & Research Integrity
Making science beZer
Improving quality
assurance
Rewarding good RI
prac6ce
Suppor6ng the review
of research
assessment

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Policy guidance
The value of open data prac6ce for RPOs
(Briefing) 732 downloads
An analysis of open data and open science
policy in Europe 949 downloads
High level policy pointers for OER policy
discussion (coming soon)

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Europe’s open champions programme

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Engaging with researchers on data
Europe’s Open Data Champions
– 14 champions +/-
– 9 countries: A, CH, D, DK, FIN, NL, NO, SE, UK
– Coming in the autumn
Joint event with Cambridge University and
Jisc or Knowledge Exchange on engaging
champions for more good RDM prac6ce

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Young researchers
OA and OD champions
RISE high-level workshop on “Researcher
careers and the European funding system:
How to make Open Science a reality”
OpenCON 2017, 11-13 Nov 2017, Berlin

11. Programme Area 2
Support the Open Science / Scholarship
support community in Europe

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Global Sustainability Coali6on
for Open Science Services (SCOSS)
Ini?ators
LIBER
EIFL
European University Associa6on (EUA)
European Research Council
Science Europe
Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG)
SPARC
SPARC Europe
Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL)
COAR
IFLA

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SCOSS: What it is
Goal: Helping sustain the infrastructure to
support the implementa6on of
Open Science
An Open Science community that evaluates
OS services to ul6mately encourage the
de-centralised interna6onal
crowd-funding of essen6al infrastructure

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SCOSS pilot: Feb 2017 -
Invita6ons to apply: DOAJ & SHERPA/RoMEO
Evalua6on of proposals
Consensus mee6ng
Funding model discussion
Final approval from SCOSS member orgs
Then it’s your turn to fund them

16. Programme Area 3
Provide advocacy, guidance, tools and
services in support of the
implementa6on and monitoring of open
policies

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Advocacy tools / info
Open Data Cita6on Advantage Briefing
231 downloads
Exploring developing
the tool
“How Open is your
Research”

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Suppor6ng author empowerment
Assessing the value
of current products
How and where it is
being used
How effec6ve it is
In the context of other
developments

19. Programme Area 4
European informa6on-gathering and
dissemina6on including sharing good
prac6ce and European experience

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Encouraging
discourse

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Building strategic links
SPARC
LIBER
OpenAIRE
COAR
OASPA
David Prosser
EUA
Policy & Foresight /
OD policies and Science
Cloud, DG Research &
Innova6on, EC
RISE
Wellcome Trust
HEFCE

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Joint LIBER SPARC Europe workshop
1. How can ins6tu6ons engage more with researchers
to enable more Open Access/Open Data sharing?
2. How can we simplify the process of publishing
Open Access/Open Data for researchers and/or
administrators?
3. How can ins6tu6ons reward researchers for
contribu6ng more to Open Access/Open Data?
4. How can ins6tu6ons take more of lead in the
dissemina6on of their research informa6on?

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Connec6ng
The Impact and Measurement of Open
Access, Oslo, 14 Feb 2017
Interna6onal Digital Cura6on Conference,
IDCC, Edinburgh, 22-23 Feb 2017
Berlin 13, 21-22 March 2017 (& Advis Board)
OER 2017, London, 5-6 April 2017
OER Policy Plaoorm, Warsaw, 1 June 2017

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Presenta6ons / Engagement
Munin Conference, 21-22 Nov 2016
IFLA WLIC Congress, Being Open about Open,
Wroclaw, 24 Aug 2017
COASP, 9th Conference on Open Access
Scholarly Publishing, Lisbon,
20-21 Sept 2017

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Sharing knowledge more structurally
Exploring the op6ons
Open Science Policy Plaoorm
OpenAIRE nodes
EC Na6onal Contact Points
Science Europe OA working group
Open Science Monitor
OATP

26. Key immediate priori4es

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Key immediate priori6es
OA and OD case studies & briefings on research integrity
and research efficiency
More OA and OS policy development amongst funders /
research assessment bodies
Suppor6ng engagement amongst researchers
Influencing the copyright direc6ve, and FP9 for OS
Pairing up OS with research integrity goals
More OER policy development in Europe
Improving OS knowledge-sharing in Europe

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Thank you for
funding SPARC Europe
helping make Open the Default
on your behalf