Policies, policies.... an overview of 2012 so far. - Alma Swan (SPARC EUROPE)

1. Luso-Brasilian Open Access Conference, Lisbon, 1-2 October 2012
Policies, policies ....
An overview of 2012 so far
Alma Swan
SPARC Europe
Key Perspectives Ltd
Enabling Open Scholarship
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2. New mandatory policies
Portugal: 3 institutional mandates
Spain: 1 institutional mandate
Argentina: 1 multi-institutional mandate
US: 4 institutional
1 sub-institutional
UK: 1 revised funder mandate
EU: 1 multi-national funder mandate
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3. Institutional mandates
End-November 2011 End-September 2012
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4. Funder mandates
End-November 2011 End-September 2012
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5. New Latin American initiative
La Referencia
Implementation rather than policy, but
policy needs appear less in LAC
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6. E O S

7. La referencia
8 (initial) Latin American countries
National harvesters working on IRs
RedCLARA: regional harvester
Standards and tools
Journal articles, theses, working papers
Launching Buenos Aires, November 2012
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8. European Commission
Research funder
Infrastructure funder
Policymaker
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9. European Commission
ERA (European Research Area) – EU Member
States plus some others (Norway, Switzerland)
• Collaborations and joint programmes
• Harmonisation of research conditions
Horizon 2020 (2014-2020 funding programme)
Rules proceeding through European Parliament
Currently in committee stage
Green and Gold (Green mandate, Gold option)
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10. DG Research & Innovation
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11. Scientific data
“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 an infrastructure – a valuable asset on
which science, technology, the economy and
society can advance.” (Neelie Kroes)
Start slowly, pilot, partner and build
infrastructures
H2020 has a proposed DATA PILOT
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12. Research Councils UK (RCUK)
Authors must use „RCUK-compliant‟ journals:
Offer a Gold option, or
Where a journal does not offer Gold it must offer
the Green option with an embargo of <6 months
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13. Perverse consequences
Subscription journals lengthen their embargoes
to >6 months
Subscription journals offer a Gold option =
hybrid journals
UK authors must pay for this
No upper limit on APCs
Funds will be given from RCUK to universities
to administer...
This is NOT a policy for others to follow!
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14. Thank you for listening
aswan@keyperspectives.co.uk
www.openscholarship.org
www.openoasis.org
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15. Resources
1. General, comprehensive resource on Open Access:
OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook)
www.openoasis.org
2. Resource for policymakers, institutional managers:
EOS (Enabling Open Scholarship)
www.openscholarship.org
3. Open Access Map
www.openaccessmap.org
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