The document discusses the European Union's efforts to promote open access to publicly funded research. It outlines several key EU initiatives and policies around open access, including the Open Access Pilot under FP7, the 2012 Commission Recommendation on access to scientific information, and the OpenAIRE+ project to link peer-reviewed publications and datasets. The overall aim is to define clear open access policies, ensure their implementation, facilitate dissemination and preservation of research outputs and data, and develop supporting e-infrastructures at both national and European levels.

1. European Strategic Pillars for
Open Acces+
www.kosson.ro

2. G8 science ministers
meet in London
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ii. Open scientific research data should be
easily discoverable, accessible, assessable,
intelligible, useable, and wherever possible
interoperable to specific quality standards.
iii. We recognise the potential benefits of
immediate global access to and unrestricted
use of published peer-reviewed, publicly
funded research results in line with the
necessity of IP protection.
iv. We recognise that there are different
routes to open access (green, gold and other
innovative models) which need to be
explored and potentially developed in a
complementary way.

3. ALLEAThe European Federation of National Academies of
Sciences and Humanities
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Data are the bedrock on which the scientific
edifice is built. More efficient data-More efficient data-
sharing and more open accesssharing and more open access
to information and resources will make it
easier for observations to be confirmed,
experiments to be replicated, hypothesis to be
supported, rejected or refined, and, ultimately,
for answers to societal challengers to be given.
Publications should be made openly available
online, as soon and as freely asas soon and as freely as
possiblepossible, as should also educational
resources and software resulting from publicly
funded research.

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Open access can
increase the impact
of scientific
research and
innovation through
improved access to
and rapid
dissemination of
research results.

7. FP7 Pilot
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8. How does the European Commission
supports OA now
The pilot, which will run until the
end of FP7, covers approximately
20 % of the FP7 research budget.
Under the Open Access pilot, FP7 grant recipients in seven areas (energy, environment,
health, information and communication technologies [only cognitive systems, interaction,
and robotics], research infrastructures [only e-infrastructures], science in society, and
socioeconomic sciences and humanities) are expected to:
• deposit peer-reviewed research articles or final manuscripts
resulting from their FP7 projects into an online repository;
• make their best effort to ensure open access to these articles within
either 6 months (health, energy, environment, information and
communication technologies, research infrastructures) or 12 months
(science in society, socioeconomic sciences and humanities) after
publication.
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6 months embargo
(CS39)
6 months embargo
(CS39)
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In addition to the pilot, FP7 rules of participation also
allow all projects to have open access fees eligible for
reimbursement during the time of the grant agreement
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9. 2009 An ERA based on a shared responsibility between science, policy and society
The ERA
Milestones
We will know the ERA is
a shared
responsibility in
2030 when we see:
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10. 2010 A Digital Agenda for Europe
Knowledge transfer activities
should be managed
effectively33
and supported
by suitable financial
instruments34
and publicly
funded research should beshould be
widely disseminated throughwidely disseminated through
Open Access publication ofOpen Access publication of
scientific data and papersscientific data and papers35
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To this end the Commission will
appropriately extend current Open
Access publication requirements as
stipulated in Commission Decision
C(2008) 4408
(more information on this pilot is available at
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-
society/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.topic&id=1680)

11. 2011 Open data: An engine for innovation, growth and
transparent governance COM(2011) 882 final
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5.2. Soft law for open research informationSoft law for open research information
Because of the specificities of research data, the Commission will set out in detail and in separate documents
its strategy for scientific and research data and associated infrastructures.
It intends to adopt in 2012 a Communication and Recommendation on the accessibility and preservation of
scientific information. It will work with Member States to step up their activities to provide open access to
scientific information on the basis of a concrete set of measures.
In parallel, the Commission will detail how it will deal with the results of research funded by the European
Union.
Open data strategy, key measures

12. 2012 results
In May 2011, the Commission
identified the 811 projects
designated at the time and sent a
questionnaire to all project
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• less than 50% did not know the possibility
• 8 projects out of 194 answers reported they
used it
• For 72% of respondents, reimbursement of
Gold OA is restricted by the fact that most
publishing activities occur after the project
end
• Almost 70% of respondents think it is better
to use self-archiving to satisfy the OAuse self-archiving to satisfy the OA
requirement in FP7
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13. Future consolidation is based on:
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14. European Research Council
The ERC therefore
supports the
principle of open
access to the
published outputs
of research as a
fundamental part of
its mission.
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15. European Research Council
European Research Council (2012). Open Access
Status of Journal Articles from ERC Funded
Projects, Brussels.
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A list of 630 journal articles reported in 88 mid-term
project reports formed the basis of this
analysis.
The results show that 62 % of journal articles
from ERC funded projects are available in open access.
The share of articles in open access varies across
research domains. It is close to 70 % in Life
Sciences, 65 % in Physical Sciences
and Engineering and nearer 50 % in Social
Sciences and Humanities
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16. COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION of 17.7.2012 on
access to and preservation of scientific information
Policies on open access to scientific research
results should apply to all research that receives
public funds.
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Open access to scientific
research data enhances data
quality, reduces the need for
duplication of research, speeds
up scientific progress and helps
to combat scientific fraud.
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17. Bruxelles, 17.7.2012 C(2012) 4890
final
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(COM(2010)54
6,
06.10.2010),
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52010DC0546:EN:NOT
A Digital Agenda for
Europe (COM(2010)245,
19.05.2010),
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52010DC0245(01):EN:NOT
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18. EC response: OpenAIRE+
Creating a robust, participatory
service for the cross-linking of
peer-reviewed scientific
publications and associated
datasets is the principal goal of
OpenAIREplus
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19. Meaning?!
The project will establish an e-
Infrastructure to harvest, enrich and
store the metadata of Open Access
scientific datasets. Innovative
underlying technical structures will be
deployed to support the management
of and inter-linking between associated
scientific data.
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20. How it is working?
Access to and deposit of linked publications via
the OpenAIRE portal are supported by a Help
Desk, and OpenAIRE's collaborative networking
structure will be extended to promote the
concept of open enhanced publications among
user communities.
Liaison offices in each of the project's 31
European countries work to support the needs of
researchers in Europe.
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21. Festina lente
1. Define clear policies for the dissemination of and open access to scientific publications resulting from
publicly funded research.
2. Ensure that research funding institutions responsible for managing public research funding and academic
institutions receiving public funding implement the policies
3. Define clear policies for the dissemination of and open access to research data resulting from publicly
funded research.
4. Reinforce the preservation of scientific information
5. Further develop e-infrastructures underpinning the system for disseminating scientific information
6. Ensure synergies among national e-infrastructures at European and global level
7. Participate in multi-stakeholder dialogues at national, European and/or international level on how to
foster open access to and preservation of scientific information.
8. Designate by the end of the year a national point of reference
9. Inform the Commission 18 months from the publication of this Recommendation in the Official Journal of
the European Union, and every two years thereafter, of action taken in response to the different elements of
this Recommendation, in accordance with formalities to be defined and agreed.
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22. A beautiful opportunity!
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Zenodo www.zenodo.org
offers a one-stop-store for
research output. Created
by OpenAIRE and CERN,
and supported by the
European Commission,
this new-generation online
repository offers its
service from the
OpenAIRE pan-European
initiative, which expands
the linking of research
output to datasets and
funding information, in
European and national
contexts.
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23. All you
need!
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24. Thank you!
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