The document discusses Austria's transition to open science. It notes that key organizations in Austria, including the Austrian Science Fund, support open access mandates and funding for open access publishing. Universities Austria, a voluntary initiative with 55 member institutions, aims to transition all publications to gold open access by 2025. The document provides recommendations to support this transition, such as reorganizing publishing contracts, supporting international cooperation on publishing models, and introducing open access policies. It emphasizes that openness is important for science and that stakeholders must work together to transition to more open systems.

1. Austrian Transition to
Open Science
Patrick Danowski

2. FWF Policy
• OA mandate
• OA funding (gold / hybrid) with limits
• CC-BY mandate

3. • voluntary bottom up initiative
• focus on moving Open Access forward
(with Open Science in mind)
• 55 member institutions
• different working groups

4. Believe
• Need of Change
• in Open Access
• no subscription fees
• Transition

5. Source:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.34079

6. Goal
100% Gold OA in
2025
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Universities Austria (UNIKO):
the biggest amount
depending on discipline

7. Recommendations 1/2
• Reorganize publishing
contracts
• Support international
cooperation
• Introduce publication
funds
• Monitoring during
implementation
• Reorganize publication
venues
• Create cost
transparency
• Acknowledging Open
Access / Open Science
• Set targets for Open
Science

8. Recommendations 2/2
• Introduce Open Access
policy
• Registration of
repositories
• Support self-archiving
• Offer training programs
• Opening the inventories
• Provide start-up capital
• Expand the scope of
the copyright reform of
2015
• Merging the publication
infrastructure

9. Introduce OA Policy
No Information
1
No
8
In Planing
6
Yes
7
Information
from 22 project partners
(eInfrastructure)
• EU Network PASTEUR4OA
says that FWF has one of
the most effective OA
policies of a public funder
in Europe.
• Austrian Court of Audit
recently claims OA for all
publically funded research.

10. From 2020 onward, license agreements with
publishers should be concluded in a manner
that the research publications are
automatically published OA.
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Reorganize publisher
contracts
In Negotiation: Wiley, Elsevier

11. From 2017 onward, all research and
funding organizations in Austria
should participate jointly in national
and international initiatives that
promote high-quality non-commercial
publication models and
infrastructures.
Support international
cooperation
130.000 € from Austria

12. Openness is the normative pledge of
science and scholarship.
It is the precondition that research
results can be replicated, verified,
falsified and reused for scholarly
as well as for practical
applications.
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13. Only together we can
manage the transition
to a new System
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