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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.)
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The European Commission is......Policy Maker
Launches policy debatesInvites Member States to take actionProposes EU legislation
...Funding AgencyAccess/dissemination rules funded research
...Infrastructure BuilderFunds infrastructuresFunds relevant researchSupports networking activities
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EU politics are complicated...
http://europarl.europa.eu/
http://consilium.europa.eu/
http://ec.europa.eu/
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…are they?
Neelie Kroes Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
Digital AgendaResearch & Innovation
The College of Commissioners
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Policy Maker
Multi-Annual EU budget 2014-{2021, 2024}http://ec.europa.eu/budget/reform/index_en.htm
Post-2013 research fundinghttp://ec.europa.eu/research/csfri/index_en.cfm
Proposal on European Research Areahttp://ec.europa.eu/research/era/index_en.htm
Communication/Recommendation on Scientific Information
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Advising on...
Scientific Informatione-Infrastructuresetc.
http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU,@NeelieKroesEU
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda
http://bit.ly/cc_buhr,@ccbuhr
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The Digital Agenda for Europe
“[…] publicly funded research should be widely disseminated through Open Access publication of scientific data and papers”
A Digital Agenda for Europe (COM(2010)245, 19.05.2010),http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52010DC0245(01):EN:NOT
“[…] the Commission will appropriately extend current Open Access publication requirements […]”
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The Innovation Union
“[...] the Commission will propose a European Research Area framework and […]seek to ensure […] dissemination [...] of research results, including through open access to publications and data from publicly funded research”.
Innovation Union (COM(2010)546, 06.10.2010),http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52010DC0546:EN:NOT
“The Commission will promote open access to the results of publicly funded research. It will aim to make open access to publications the general principle for projects funded by the EU research Framework Programmes […]”.
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Funding Agency
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/open_access
Covers 20% FP7 budget
Best effort mandate
Embargo (6/12m)
Costs reimbursable
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What next?
2011Extend/Generalise OA Pilot in next FP
How to get scientists to deposit?Robust & effective mandateFunding?A Role for Publishers?
2012ERA proposals
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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”.
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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."
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Infrastructure Builder
http://www.openaire.eu
http://www.oapen.org
http://europeana.eulink, maintain, extend
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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
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PointersThe EC and open access
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/open_access
The Digital Agenda for Europehttp://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda
Neelie Kroes Speecheshttp://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/518http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/716
Riding the wave – Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, October 2010
http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave
Post-2013 Research Green Paper & Public Consultationhttp://ec.europa.eu/research/csfri/index_en.cfm
More detail on all of this (thank you!)http://slidesha.re/celina_oa
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