Address at the first OAPEN conference in Berlin, 25 February 2011 (http://meetings.copernicus.org/oapen2011/).

1. 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.)

3. EU politics are complicated... http://europarl.europa.eu/ http://consilium.europa.eu/ http://ec.europa.eu/

4. … are they? Neelie Kroes Máire Geoghegan-Quinn Digital Agenda Research & Innovation The College of Commissioners

6. Advising on... Scientific Information e-Infrastructures etc. http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU , @ NeelieKroesEU http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda http://bit.ly/cc_buhr , @ ccbuhr

9. Funding Agency http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/open_access Covers 20% FP7 budget Best effort mandate Embargo (6/12m) Costs reimbursable

11. 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”.

12. 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."

13. Infrastructure Builder http://www.openaire.eu http://www.oapen.org http://europeana.eu link, maintain, extend

14. 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