Presentation made by SPARC Europe at the SIS-RRI Conference: Science, Innovation and Society: Achieving Responsible Research and Innovation 19-20 November 2014 Rome, Italy

1. Open Science in FP6, FP7
and H2020
Alma Swan
SPARC Europe
Key Perspectives Ltd
Enabling Open Scholarship
Science, Innovation and Society: Achieving Responsible Research and Innovation
SIS-RRI Conference, Rome, 19-20 November 2014

2. Open Access
in FP6, FP7 and H2020
• Formal scholarly literature
– Journal articles
– Books and their parts
• Accompanying data
• Other peer reviewed research outputs
– Image, video and audio formats
– Software
• Non-peer reviewed outputs

3. FP6
• Report on economic and technical
evolution of scientific publication markets
in Europe (2006)

4. FP7
• Policy planning
• ERC guidelines (2007)
• Council Conclusions (2007)
• Pilot Open Access policy from 2008

5. Projects (completed)
• Supported by several research projects, including:
– SOAP
– PEER
– NECOBELAC
– MEDOANET
• And substantial infrastructure projects:
– DRIVER
– OpenAIRE
– DARIAH
– ELIXIR

6. Projects (underway)
• RECODE (data) – Open Data policy focus
• PASTEUR4OA – Open Access policy focus
• FOSTER (Open Science training programme)

7. Where we are
• Solid policy foundation on Open Access to
literature (H2020 outputs, ERC-funded
outputs)
• Policy ‘toe-in-the-water’ on Open Data
• Promising infrastructure foundation for both
Open Access and Open Data

8. But …
• No idea how effective these are so far, or will be
over the coming years (despite a stated OA target
for 2016)
• No monitoring procedures in place
• Little interest detected from Commission so far
• OpenAIRE remains a PROJECT
• Open Data as the primary output of research
remains unexplored
• Still floundering on meaningful metrics for
research impact: leadership needed

9. H2020: what is needed
• Commitment to permanent infrastructures to support:
– Open Access literature (OpenAIRE)
– Open Data (all disciplines)
• Deeper understanding of what is needed to support
transformation of the scientific research system to an Open
Data model
• Commitment to monitoring and enforcing existing and future
policy
• Leadership on changing the culture on research impact
measurement
• Leadership on joined-up policy/infrastructures

10. Thank you
almaswan3@gmail.com
www.sparceurope.org
www.openscholarship.org
www.keyperspectives.co.uk

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