LIBER and Open Access - Los proyectos Open Access de LIBER

The LIBER Open Access projects –
Los proyectos Open Access de LIBER

Wouter Schallier
Executive Director of LIBER (Association of European Research
Libraries)

wouter.schallier@kb.nl
www.libereurope.eu

Semana del Acceso Abierto Peru, 25 October 2011

Contents
1. What does LIBER do?
2. We live in a (primary) data world
3. E-science and Open Access
4. ODE project
5. DART Europe
6. LERU Roadmap towards Open Access
7. MedOANet
8. OA events
9. Conclusions


“Making the case for European research libraries”

 LIBER = the largest network of European
research/academic libraries: 425 institutions, from over 40
countries
 Mission: to represent and promote the interests of
European research/academic libraries
 Formulate a European strategy for research libraries
 Knowledge sharing and dissemination, fostering partnerships
 Advocacy and lobbying


Strategy 2009-2012: areas of interest
http://www.libereurope.eu/activities
 Scholarly Communications
E-science, OA
 Digitisation and Resource Discovery
Europeana, copyright
 Heritage Collections and Preservation
 Organisation and Human Resources
 Architecture, quality and benchmarking, security, library
passport


Sharing data is a necessity, not a luxury

 The world is changing: From an information to a (primary) data
society
 Data deluge: now and even more in the future
 Mission of research institutes: doing research and disseminating the
results

 We need NEW models for scholarly communication
 Open Access
 Cf. Obama admin, EC: open public data
 Universities
 Research libraries and data centres


Image: Cern/Maximilien Brice

Image: NASA


It’s all about laaaaaarge amounts of data

 “Data are no longer considered as interim products to be
discarded once the research reporting them is published.
Rather, they have become important sources of
scholarly content to be used and re-used.”
Borgman, The role of libraries in e-science

Raw data from a central Pb+Pb event for 40 rows of the Main TPC
Image: http://na49info.web.cern.ch/na49info/Public/Press/pictures/mtpc40rowsRawData.gif


Making data usable/useful

 Data description and identification
 Organisation http://na49info.web.cern.ch/na49info/Public/Press/LogBook.html

 Data protection, privacy regulations, ethical issues
 Visualisation
 Interpretation
 Preservation
 Persistent link between publications and datasets
 Integrated search


Making data usable/useful (2)
 Validation and peer review of data
 Data quality and integrity
 Interoperability
 Repositories
 Control over correct usage
 Selection
 Data publication
 Citation
…


This is e-science … and no science fiction

 Large scale computing resources

Data-intensive
 Carried out over the internet

Collaborative (team science, virtual science communities)
 Distributed (networked science)
 Interdisciplinary
 Heterogeneous

Quick and wide dissemination

The paradox of e-science

 I share my data because I want/need your data

Vs.

 I don’t share data because it doesn’t help my career
 It is MY data and I keep them safely stored on my laptop
 I don’t want other people to make misuse of my data


Opportunities for data exchange
http://www.ode-project.eu/

 Data sharing is
 smart: it is efficient, avoids duplication, stimulates the
advancement of science
 about transparency: it allows re-analysis
 about enrichment: it adds value to traditional publications
 rewarding: requirement for publicly funded research
 3 perspectives: researchers, publishers, libraries and data
centres


There is no other way

 E-science is a reality and Open Access goes hand in
hand with it
 Research output needs stable and trustworthy
 Access
 Storage


Challenges for research libraries/data centres

 Directly contribute to more efficient/transparent research
and education (open scholarschip, open knowledge)
 Getting involved in the research and education workflows
 Set new priorities


DART Europe OA e-theses portal

 Portal for discovery of European research theses in Open
Access
 Run by UCL (University College London) for LIBER
 At http://www.dart-europe.eu
 228,665 research theses available (24 October 2011)
 from 359 European Universities
 in 20 European countries


Open Access to research theses

 Theses freely available in
Open Access are more heavily
used than paper equivalents
 Example: Dublin City
University, 2009
 518 consultations of
paper theses
 16,212 downloads for
the equivalent digital theses
See: Hill, R. and Moyle, M. (2010)
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/19955


LERU.org

 LERU (League of European Research Universities):
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Universitat de Barcelona, University of
Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg, Université de Genève, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
Heidelberg, Helsingin yliopisto (University of Helsinki), Universiteit
Leiden, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Imperial College London,
University College London, Lunds universitet, Università degli Studi di
Milano, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München, University of
Oxford, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris-Sud 11,
Université de Strasbourg, Universiteit Utrecht, Universität Zürich


LERU Roadmap towards Open Access

Top-level findings
 Open Access can be viewed in the wider context
of Open Scholarship and Open Knowledge
 Each LERU University could consider appointing a senior
Officer to act as Open Access champion
 Some LERU Universities are interested in collaborations
over Open Access publishing, particularly for Open Access
monograph publishing in the Arts, Humanities and Social
Sciences


LERU Roadmap towards Open Access (2)

 Roadmap highlights current LERU practices
UCL (University College London) Open Access mandate
Publications fund in the University of Barcelona
Award-winning strategy for Open Access in the
University of Zürich
 Roadmap available via
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1310639/
http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/publications/


Green route

 Institutional repositories provide a basis for Open Access
approaches (para. 20)
 Costs vary from €30,000 - €242,000 per year in the UK
(para. 22)
 Communications Strategy needed to support advocacy
(para. 23)
 Universities need to be clear about what type of material
is being deposited (para. 25)


Green route (2)

 University of Helsinki requires authors to deposit copies
of their research articles published in academic journals
in HELDA – the institutional repository (para. 25)
 Open Access Strategy should be embedded in pan-
University Strategies (para. 30)
 Research
 Copyright
 Teaching & Learning


Green route (3)

 LERU Universities can consider adopting Open Access
mandates at an institutional level (paras 32-34)
 Authors should not assign their copyright to publishers
 Better model is for authors to grant non-exclusive rights to an
author to publish (para. 35)
 Research data, once made available in Open Access,
opens up opportunities for re-use and collaboration (para.
36)


Green route (4)

 There is a gap in the current European infrastructure for
long-term secure digital preservation
 Certainly as concerns Open Access repositories and Open
Access journals
 LERU, research funders and other stakeholders can work
together to identify what infrastructure is needed and who should
provide it (para. 38)


Gold route
 Changes are taking place in scholarly publishing across
the world and LERU institutions are not exempt (para. 40)
 Sustainable Business Models for Gold Open Access
publishing need to be developed (para. 42)
 Two models currently exist
 Full Open Access journals
 Hybrid Journals, which allow Author-Pays charges
Problem of ‘double dipping’ should be addressed (paras 43-4)


Gold route (2)

 LERU, perhaps with others, could investigate reductions in Author
Payment charges with publishers and membership fees with Open
Access publishers (para. 46)
 Changes to existing publishing models will incur transition costs
 LERU and/or other Universities can work with other stakeholders to
leverage funding (para. 48)
 LERU institutions can work with Open Access monograph publishers
 Particularly where the languages are other than English (para. 49)


Gold route (3)

 There is a need for a cross-institutional study to identify
University commitments to the current publishing models
 Authorships
 Peer reviewing
 Membership of Editorial Boards
 Resulting study would act as a baseline for future
developments into the Open Access arena (para. 51)


MedOANet

 Co-ordination of Open Access strategies, policies and
structures at the national and regional Member State level
 Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey
 Online ‘Mediterranean Open Access Tracker’


Events

 LIBER 41st Annual Conference, Estonia, June 2012
http://www.utlib.ee/liber2012/

 OAI8, Geneva, June 2013


TTQCJV

 Thanks to dr Paul Ayris for the slides on DART Europe and LERU

 Thank YOU!

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