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Westminster Higher Education Forum

Keynote Seminar: Keynote Seminar:

Implementing Open Access Policy

Dr. Otakar Fojt, Senior Science and Innovation Adviser, British Embassy Prague

5th November 2013

Europe (19)

Stockholm (1), Copenhagen (1), Berlin (3), Munich (1),

Berne (1), Warsaw (1), Prague (1), Paris (3), The Hague

(2), Rome (1), Milan (1), Madrid (2), Istanbul (1)

Russia (3)

Moscow

(3)

Israel (2)

Tel Aviv

(2)

China (11)

Beijing (5), Guangzhou

(2), Shanghai (3),

Chongqing (1)

South Korea

(3)

Seoul (3)

Japan (8)

Tokyo

(6),

Osaka (2)

Taiwan

(2)

Taipei (2)

Canada (6)

Ottawa (2),

Toronto (2)

Vancouver

(1)

Montreal (1)

UK

London

(BIS/FCO

)

UK Science and Innovation Network

Nov-13

Taipei (2)

Singapore

(3)

Singapore

(3)

New Zealand (1)

Wellington (1)

India (11)

Delhi (5), Mumbai

(3), Bangalore (3)

Brazil (4)

Sao Paulo

(3)

Brasilia (1)

USA (14)

Washington DC (3),

Atlanta (1), Boston (2),

Chicago (1), Houston

(2), LA (2), San

Francisco (3)

Australia (1)

Melbourne

(1)

Malaysia (1)

Kuala Lumpur

(1)

South Africa

(2)

Pretoria (1),

Cape Town (1)

Nigeria

(1)

Abuja (1)

Qatar (1)

Doha (1)

Policy

makers

R&D&I

funders

Some of our UK stakeholders

makers funders

IndustryResearch

& Higher

Education

SIN

Large international

companies & SMEs

• Prosperity agenda

• Responsive reporting

• Proactive reporting

• Ministerial Visit support

Broad portfolio of activities

• Ministerial Visit support

• Science-Related lobbying

• Science policy support

• Delivering Science events

• International projects

• Local networks of experts

• Popularisation of UK science

• Promoting the UK science

Open Access policy across Europe

� Budapest Open Access Initiative (February 2002)

� Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (June 2003)

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in

Various initiatives on Open Access

� Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (Max Planck Society, October 2003, 445 signatories now)

� Science Europe Position Statement (April 2013)

� Action Plan towards Open Access Publications –

Global Research Council (May 2013)

� Statement of G8 Science Ministers (June 2013)


� EC’s Report from August 2013 estimates that open access is reaching the tipping point, with around 50% of scientific papers published in 2008-2011 now available for free

A current situation with Open access agenda

2008-2011 now available for free

� Thousands of new repositories and hundreds ofOA journals have been launched

� Hundreds of subscription journals converted to OA

� Funders adopt new open access policies

� Hundreds of universities implemented OA policies

� Many stakeholders are well educated now


� Spain is the only country in Europe with clear open access legislation (Act 14/2011 on Science, Technology and Innovation). Article 37 aligns with EC green OA, drives building repositories and requires to

Open Access Policies and Recommendations

green OA, drives building repositories and requires to deposit published articles a.s.a.p. (1 year is a max)

� Denmark and Switzerland have clear open access mandates at the level of funding agencies both supporting the green model

� Other countries continue to explore how to approach the debate (like Poland and the Czech Republic)

� or have yet to carry out any practical measures to introduce open access (like Russia and Turkey)


� The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation did appoint an Open Access Committee which published its recommendations in March 2011.

� The Green model is the preferred choice for government,

Denmark

� The Green model is the preferred choice for government, funding bodies and universities in Denmark.

� In June 2012, the Danish public research funding bodies adopted a new policy on Open Access stating that all scientific articles which are wholly or partly funded by these bodies must be accessible through Open Access, provided this is permitted by the journal they are published in.

� An evaluation of this policy and possible recommendations for changes are to be completed before June 2014.


� French government is in favour of open access

� Mixed green and gold open access model (platinum) planned

� “Platinum Access”, is defined on the French HE & Research Ministry website as developing open access publishing which

France

Ministry website as developing open access publishing which will enable authors and readers to access scientific publications without having to pay.

� France's HAL multi-disciplinary open archive was launched by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 2001

� Digital Scientific Library repository initiative

� An open edition Freemium programme was introduced in 2011


� The Berlin declaration set an important milestone in 2003

� No published government policy on open access, but it is likely to emerge in 2014

� A Bill to reform German Copyright law was introduced in

Germany

� A Bill to reform German Copyright law was introduced in April 2013. It introduces the right to green access publishing after 12 months for research that was either project funded or originated from non-university research institutes. The bill was amended in the second chamber (Bundesrat), who asked for the right to publish through the green access route for all scientists, including those employed at universities, and wanted to shorten the limit to 6 months for STEM subjects.

� it is unclear how gold access would be financed, yet Gold Access model is considered as a parallel route.


� No national policy as such, but universities and research organisations actively support open access

� More than 60 institutional repositories with open source software have been built since 2004

Italy

software have been built since 2004

� Some private research funders approved and implemented open access policies (Telethon 2010, Cariplo Foundation in 2012)

� A national task force on open access has worked within a project MedOANET, and for the first time a draft bill was presented for discussion within an Italian Ministry

� Italian political representatives are much more proative in open access international debate


� Since 2005, all Dutch universities signed Berlin declaration

� No official Dutch policy on open access, however, OA is actively supported and Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences has an OA policy since 2011

Netherlands

Sciences has an OA policy since 2011

� Netherlands organisation for scientific Research has made 2.5m EUR available to support OA

� National repository NARCIS was built in 2006. It has got 780.000 publications, of which 330.000 are open access

� More details on open access in Netherlands are at the linkwww.openaccess.nl


� No official national policies in Poland and the Czech Republic; a low rate of open access adoption

� Czech Policy makers explore the debate and are here with us today, green route is seen as cost efficient solution

Poland and the Czech Republic

with us today, green route is seen as cost efficient solution

� Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education intends to present a schedule of transition to open access with an aim of 60% publications in OA by 2016, Gold model is preferred

� In 2013, Polish Ministry of Administration and Digitisation proposed an ‘Act on Open Public Resources’. The Act should ensure that all outputs resulting from public subsidies should be publicly available on the internet, a hot debate is expected in the Parliament


� No Government policy on open access, OA not on a radar

� University management is unaware or disinterested too

� EU promotion of Open Access to member states did not reach Turkey, no member state yet

Turkey

reach Turkey, no member state yet

� Academics are not aware of the benefits of OA (e.g. increased visibility) and have a perception that it is a burdensome process with no carrot in the end

� Awareness raising and myth busting at all fronts is needed before a national policy is drafted


� Russia actively supports the idea of OA, however, no legislation or written policy exists

� Access to journals is mostly via subscription journals with overall annual subscription fee around $53 million

Russia

overall annual subscription fee around $53 million

� Russia supported the Statement of G8 Science ministers in London on 12 June 2013 and is keen to consult with the UK

� Many Russian scientists publish still in Russian language, so a quality translation would be needed

� One positive example of information sharing is internally within Russian academies with an active repository as a result (socionet.ru)


� Lack of awareness – more should be done, uptake of OA journals is only 10% of peer-reviewed papers now

� How to make the whole process sustainable for publishers, libraries, academics and funders?

Concerns and open questions

publishers, libraries, academics and funders?

� If gold access, where to get enough funds to cover all requirements of the scientific community?

� If green access, how to set an optimum embargo periods and where to get funding for repositories?

� More awareness of Copyright issues – creative commons CC-BY as a baseline or not?

� Concern about quality of OA journals and predatory journals

Thank you for your attention


Thank you for your attention

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