The Open Science Agenda in Europe:Policy convergence & diversity of approaches

Susan Reilly

Executive Director

SPARC More, March 6th

@skreilly

Overview

Introduction to LIBER

Open Science in Europe: how did we get here?

Highlights Open Science CloudCopyright reformOpen access

What is LIBER?

A pan-European membership organisation representing 420+ research libraries from across Europe

Mission to create an information infrastructure that enables research in LIBER institutions to be world class

LIBER on Open Science

Our Advocacy Strategy

Open Science

Council of Europe

European Commission• H2020 Open Data

Pilot• Digital Single Market• Open Science Cloud

• Development of open science agenda

• Importance of skills, infra

Open Science in Europe

European Parliament• Copyright legislation• H2020 funding

Science in Transition: from Science 2.0 to Open Science

EU consultation on Science 2.0 (July-September 2014)

498 responses and 27 position statements 43% of respondents chose “Open Science” as

their preferred term out of 6 terms

Drivers for Open Science

Areas for Policy Intervention

Open Access & Copyright Citizen Science Researchers’ Careers Peer Review & Research Evaluation New Metrics Other: Funding, Skills, Infra

Polarity of Positions

Convergence: The Digital Single Market Strategy (May 2015)

Online access for consumers and business across Europe Fit for purpose copyright framework

Maximising the growth potential of the digital economy Build a data economy Interoperability and standardisation

Inclusive e-society Digital skills

Convergence: Open Science Cloud (OSC)

“a trusted environment for hosting and processing research data to support EU science in its global leading role”

H2020 Open Data Pilot Proliferation of Infrastructure Need for Interoperability Drive for Knowledge transfer

LIBER on the OSC “Open & Community Driven”

http://libereurope.eu/blog/2015/11/04/an-open-and-community-driven-open-science-cloud

Not sufficient to provide infrastructure Skills and training Local support Incentivise Open Science Commons

Convergence: Copyright

Recognition that copyright needs to be modernised to support Open Science and the Digital Single Market

European Commission to publish proposals for copyright reform in June 2016 TDM Cross Border

Copyright & TDM

• TDM potentially worth 5.3 billion euro a year to European research budget (2%)

• Knock-on effect would be a minimum of 32.5 billion euro increase in GDP

• Increased capacity of digital technology• Licences don’t scale and infringe academic freedom

Elsevier TDM Policy

• Access through API only• Text only- no images, tables• Research must register details• Click-through licence• Terms can change any time• Reproducibility of results

1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WAS NOT DESIGNED TO REGULATE THE FREE FLOW OF FACTS, DATA AND IDEAS, BUT HAS AS A KEY OBJECTIVE THE

PROMOTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY

7. Where research funders or other bodies require, and where authors wish, research outputs to be made available under specific licences, these should typically be CC-BY for

publications and CC0 for research data.

8. Every university, research organisation, research funder and commercial business should ensure that their policies advocate content mining as a research methodology which

has the potential to transform the way research is performed. The growth of open access and open data has

been, and will continue to be, a key enabler of content mining.

Divergence: Open Access

Communication From The Commission To The European Parliament, The Council, The European Economic And Social Committee And The Committee Of The Regions (2012) Policies for open access to scientific articles and data in place in all

members states by 2014 60% of publically funded scientific articles available open access by

2016 Various approaches in place

Legislation to enable green OA e.g. Spain, Italy, Germany Funder/Government mandates e.g.UK & NL Extra funding for gold Off-setting agreements

Open Access

OpenAire Open Access Publishing Pilot New focus on “fair open access” Concerns over cost of open access: “Christmas is

over!”

Research Data

Thank You!Any questions?

@skreilly

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