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European Policies and Open Science

Dr Paul Ayris Pro-Vice-Provost

(UCL Library Services)

E-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

Twitter: @ucylpay

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Content

European Commission: 8

pillars of Open Science

National Policies

Plan S

What else is needed?

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Flaxman Gallery, UCL

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Content

European Commission: 8

pillars of Open Science

National Policies

Plan S

What else is needed?

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Plaster Relief by John Flaxman,

Flaxman Gallery, UCL

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Future of Scholarly Communication

EOSC (European Open Science Cloud)

FAIR Data

Skills

Research Integrity

Rewards

Altmetrics

Citizen Science

European Commission: Open Science Policy Platform – 8 pillars of Open Science

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Future of Scholarly Communication

EOSC (European Open Science Cloud)

FAIR Data

Education & Skills

Research Integrity

Rewards

Altmetrics

Citizen Science

European Commission: Open Science Policy Platform – 8 pillars of Open Science

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Content

European Commission: 8

pillars of Open Science

National Policies

Plan S

What else is needed?

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Flaxman Gallery, UCL

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National

policies:

France

Full text of the Minister’s speech at launch

National Plan for Open Science

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Commitments

1 Generalise Open Access to Publications

2 Structure research data and make it available through Open

Access

3 Be part of a sustainable European and international open

science dynamic

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European Commission: 8

pillars of Open Science

National Policies

Plan S

What else is needed?

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The role of the Funder

For research, research

funders have set the

agenda

Plan S from Science

Europe is the latest attempt

to deliver a meaningful

transition to immediate

Open Access

… Whilst retaining vibrant

university publishing

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Funder Policies: Plan S

❑ Issues for universities

❑ Positives

Timeframes

The role of Green OA

Alignment of EC legislation

re research data

❑ Challenges

Define a transformative

agreement

Align Reward processes

Less than 5% of global

research covered…

On its own, Plan S is not

currently delivering global

change to Open Science

practice?

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International approaches:

AMELICA

We would like to see Plan S not as a narrow program to

replace the pay to read model with a pay to publish model,

but as a more comprehensive solution to achieve OA.

Different forms of scholarly communication result from

addressing open access from different perspectives. One

perspective is focused on commercial publishers and aims

to eliminate the pay-to-read business model. The

perspective of AmeliCA and other initiatives has been to

create a born open, scholar-led, non-profit system of

communication.

[From AMELICA Blog post]11

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Content

European Commission: 8

pillars of Open Science

National Policies

Plan S

What else is needed?

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Flaxman Gallery, UCL

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LERU has produced an Open

Science Roadmap for

universities

Launched on 12 June 2018 at

https://www.leru.org/publications/

open-science-and-its-role-in-

universities-a-roadmap-for-

cultural-change

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LERU Cultural Change

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Leadership

Management

Engagement

Open Science

Inspiration

Information

Integration

Developed from Steve Denning, ‘How do you change an

organizational culture?’ at

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/07/23/how-do-

you-change-an-organizational-culture

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Professor

Bernard

Rentier,

Rector

Emeritus,

University of

Liège

OAI11,

Geneva, 19-21

June 2019

European

Commission

Report here

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Rewards

Insert Open Science

principles into career

frameworks

Develop institutional policies

for rewarding Open Science

Apply to appointment,

promotion and appraisal

procedures

UCL has included openness

into its new academic

promotions framework

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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/sites/human-resources/files/ucl-130418.pdf

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Conclusion

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Open Science is an

opportunity, not a

threat

Policy is important

but…

Policy needs to be

implemented with

concrete actions

Cultural change is

needed to deliver

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