Department of Informatics

Open Access & Open Science in Switzerland

Martin Glinz Department of Informatics, University of Zurich www.ifi.uzh.ch/~glinz

IE Workshop on Open Access, Open Data, and Research Data Management Zurich, Jan 30, 2020

Some bits of history

Feb 2002 George Soros's Open Society Institute launches the “Budapest Open Access Initiative”

April 2002 119 institutions and 2011 individuals have signed the Budapest initiative

Oct 2003 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

Dec 2003 World Summit on the Information Society& Nov 2005

Sep 2004 Wellcome Trust Position Statement in Support of Open Access Publishing

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Open access at UZH

Dec 2005 Open access project launched2005 UZH licenses the ACM and IEEE digital libraries

Sep 2006 The UZH open access repository goes onlineMay 2007 UZH launches an electronic journal library with

full text access to many journals

Mar 2008 All publications at UZH must be entered into the open access repository (with some restrictions)

Dec 2015 Switzerland-wide OA initiative launchedDec 2019 UZH appoints two delegates for Open Science

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Open Access in Switzerland

Main Players●  SNSF – Swiss National Science Foundation●  SERI – State secretariat for education, research & innovation●  Swissuniversities – Rectors’ conference Swiss Unis & ETHs

National OA strategy published in Jan 2017

Vision:

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“By 2024, all scholarly publication activity in Switzerland should be Open Access – all scholarly publications funded by public money must be freely accessible on the Internet. The OA landscape will consist of a mix of OA models.”

The SNSF viewpoint

Dec 2019 SNSF sends open letter to publishers asking to shorten embargo periods to 6 months max.

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“Do you receive funding for your research from the SNSF? If so, you are obliged to make the resulting publications available to third parties free of charge. Research results funded with public money belong to the public. Free digital access is good for science, the economy and society as a whole.”

Action plan

❍  Define OA policies❍  Negotiate with publishers

❍  Coordinate & bundle resources❍  Explore alternate forms of publishing❍  Communicate & sensitize about OA❍  Seek regulatory support❍  Establish national monitoring

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Action plan

❍  Define OA policies❍  Negotiate with publishers

❍  Coordinate & bundle resources❍  Explore alternate forms of publishing, for example❍  Communicate & sensitize about OA❍  Seek regulatory support❍  Establish national monitoring

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Science Matters

❍  An new type of journal: Open Access & Open Data❍  Publishes single, validated observations

❍  No full papers❍  Incremental❍  Currently covering

●  Biology●  Chemistry●  Medicine

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https://sciencematters.io

Current state

❍  Action plan launched in Feb 2018❍  State of “Read and Publish” contract negotiations with

publishers●  Elsevier: MoU signed; contract should be signed in 1Q 2020●  Springer Nature: existing contract expired end of 2019,

negotiations for new Read&Publish contract failed in late 2019, shall be resumed. Currently, access is still granted during grace period

●  Wiley: MoU signed, current contract extended for 2020; new Read&Publish contract envisaged until end of 2020

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In Preparation

❍  National strategy for Open Science❍  Elaborated by Swissuniversities

❍  Based on the «FAIR» principle: make all information●  findable●  accessible●  interoperable●  reusable

❍  Strategy published, but not yet approved

❍  Action plan shall be launched in 3Q 2020

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Summary

❍  National strategy for Open Access established●  Implementation until 2024●  Negotiations with publishers still in progress

❍  National strategy for Open Science under development

❍  Swiss universities operate open access repositories

❍  Various open science endeavors launched

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Resources

Swiss National Open Access Strategy & Action Planhttps://www.swissuniversities.ch/en/topics/digitalisation/open-access/national-strategy-and-action-plan

Swiss National Open Science Strategyhttps://www.swissuniversities.ch/fileadmin/swissuniversities/Dokumente/Organisation/SUK-P/SUK_P-2/OpenScience_Strategy_v2.5_clean.pdf

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) on Open Accesshttps://oa100.snf.ch/en/home-en/

Open letter by SNSF to publishers (Dec 2019)https://oa100.snf.ch/en/news-en/embargo-periods-open-letter-to-publishers/

Publisher negotiations by Swissuniversitieshttps://www.swissuniversities.ch/en/themen/digitalisierung/open-access/publisher-negotiations

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