2. OpenAIRE - factsheet
Open Access Infrastructure for Research in
Europe
Programme: FP7 – Research Infrastructures
Starting date: December 1, 2009
Duration: 36 months
Budget: 4.1 Million
38 partners covering all European member-
states
– To be reached at www.openaire.eu
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3. FP7 OA Pilot
The European Commission launched the open
access pilot in August 2008 in seven thematic
research areas and it will run until the end of
FP7:
– Energy
– Environment (including Climate Change)
– Health
– Information and Communication Technologies
(Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics)
– Research Infrastructures (e-infrastructures)
– Science in society
– Socio-economic sciences and the humanities
Special clause 39 :
“In addition to Article II.30.4, beneficiaries shall
deposit an electronic copy of the published
version or the final manuscript accepted for
publication of a scientific publication relating to
foreground published before or after the final
report in an institutional or subject-based
repository at the moment of publication.“
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4. ERC OA guidelines
The ERC Scientific Council's Statement on Open Access of December
2006 stressed the fundamental importance of peer-review in ensuring
the certification and dissemination of high-quality scientific research, as
well as the importance of wide access and efficient dissemination of
research results. In December 2007, the ERC Scientific Council followed
this up with Guidelines for Open Access. These Guidelines state that:
– The ERC requires that all peer-reviewed publications from ERC-
funded research projects be deposited on publication into an
appropriate research repository where available, such as PubMed
Central, ArXiv or an institutional repository, and subsequently made
Open Access within 6 months of publication.
– The ERC considers essential that primary data - which in the life
sciences for example could comprise data such as
nucleotide/protein sequences, macromolecular atomic coordinates
and anonymized epidemiological data - are deposited to the
relevant databases as soon as possible, preferably immediately after
publication and in any case not later than 6 months after the date of
publication.
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5. European Helpdesk
Promote FP7-pilot and ERC OA guidelines
National Open Access Desks (27 countries)
Provide OA “toolkits” for
– Researchers
– Institutions
– Repository managers
Setup 24/7 portal for deposit, search of OA publications
Liaison with
– Other European OA initiatives
– Publishers
– CRIS systems
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6. Reaching out to EC members
Region 1 North
(DTU)
Denmark
(Technical
University of
Denmark)
Denmark
(Technical
University of
Denmark)
Finland
(University of
Helsinki)
Finland
(University of
Helsinki)
Sweden
(National Library of
Sweden)
Sweden
(National Library of
Sweden)
Region 2 South
(UMINHO)
Cyprus
(Universtity of Cyprus)
Cyprus
(Universtity of Cyprus)
Greece
(National
Documentation Center)
Greece
(National
Documentation Center)
Italy
(CASPAR)
Italy
(CASPAR)
Malta
(Malta Council for
Science & Technology)
Malta
(Malta Council for
Science & Technology)
Portugal
(University of Minho)
Portugal
(University of Minho)
Spain
(FECYT)
Spain
(FECYT)
Region 3 East
(eIFL)
Bulgaria
(Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences)
Bulgaria
(Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences)
Czech Republic
(Technical University of
Ostrava)
Czech Republic
(Technical University of
Ostrava)
Estonia
(University of Tartu)
Estonia
(University of Tartu)Hungary (HUNOR)Hungary (HUNOR)
Latvia
(University of Latvia)
Latvia
(University of Latvia)
Lithuania
(Kaunas Technical
University)
Lithuania
(Kaunas Technical
University)
Poland
(ICM – University of
Warsaw)
Poland
(ICM – University of
Warsaw)
Romania
(Kosson)
Romania
(Kosson)
Slovakia
(university Library of
Bratislava)
Slovakia
(university Library of
Bratislava)
Slovenia
(University of Ljubljana)
Slovenia
(University of Ljubljana)
Region 4 West
(UGENT)
France
(Couperin)
France
(Couperin)
Germany
(University of Kostanz)
Germany
(University of Kostanz)
Ireland
(Trinity College)
Ireland
(Trinity College)
Netherlands
(Utrecht University)
Netherlands
(Utrecht University)
UK
(SHERPA)
UK
(SHERPA)
Austria
(University of Wien)
Austria
(University of Wien)
Belgium
(Universtiy of Gent)
Belgium
(Universtiy of Gent)
Norway
(University of
Tromsoe)
Norway
(University of
Tromsoe)
National Open
Access Desks
evaluating and
disseminating
policies & best
practices
National Open
Access Desks
evaluating and
disseminating
policies & best
practices
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7. OpenAIRE infrastrucure basics
Builds on European OA Repository infrastructure
Researchers deposit once
– Harvest from OpenAIRE compliant repositories
– OpenAIRE provides “Orphan” repository
Extend DRIVER guidelines for repository managers
Based on DRIVER developed D-NET software toolkit
Access to scientific publications
– Search, browse
– Visualization tools
Provide monitoring tools for
– Document/depositing statistics
– Usage statistics from repository infrastructure
Interoperation with other infrastructures
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8. OpenAIRE in a nutshell
OpenAIRE overall
overview:
functionalities
and domains
served
OpenAIRE overall
overview:
functionalities
and domains
served
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13. Measuring success of OA in FP7
Document statistics for OA deposition
– % rate of OA deposition
Usage statistics on FP7 OA publications
– Impact of OA deposited publications
One WP dedicated in development of usage
statistics service
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14. Funders requirements (EC)
Open Access evaluation: the following stats will be broken down by research
area, programme, ERC, contract type (NoE, IP, etc.) country, institution,
– total number of articles published in FP7 after August 2008
– total number of open access articles
– average number of articles per project
– total/average number of articles of SC39 projects
– number of articles still in embargo period (those in 6 months embargo,
those in 12 months, those with no embargo, i.e., gold)
Project evaluation based on OA publication, broken down by research area,
programme, funding (e.g., big vs. small projects), maturity of project (how long
has it been going for), etc.
– number of projects that have not published any articles
– number of projects in the pilot that have not published any articles
Overall compliance with the mandate (how many are, how many are not) – this in
relative numbers
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16. Strategy for recording usage
Based PRIUS model slightly adapted to
OpenAIRE
Basically the normalization will be
done centrally
– When
– What
– Who
– Which
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18. Usage statistics service
components
Harvester/aggregator from OpenAIRE compliant
repositories
Service for processing usage data and produce
meaningful statistics
Provide web and graphical tools for
– Managers
– Funders
– Researchers
Service can easily be adopted to non FP7
publications (e.g. in DRIVER, …)
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19. OpenAIRE compliant repositories
Definition of OpenAIRE compliant repositories
– OpenAIRE guidelines for usage statistics
Align with current initiatives
Support major usage data formats
– Interoperability is important
Support multiple transfer protocols
OpenAIRE orphan repository (Invenio/CERN)
to comply with guidelines
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20. OpenAIRE partners expertise
UNIBI, UGOE, SURF
– National initiatives – OA-stat
– PEER project
– Knowledge Exchange
Univ. of Minho
– DSpace statistics plugin
University of Athens
– Processing of web server & application logs
– Usage statistics application in TELPlus
– Personalized applications in DRIVER & TELPlus
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24. Other article level stats
Citations
Web usage
Expert ratings
Social bookmarking
Community rating
Media/blog coverage
Commenting activity
More sophisticated types of usage
metrics
Tracking ‘conversations’ outside of the
publisher
Reputation metrics for users
Tagging
and more…
Mark Patterson – PLoS.org -
www.ape2010.eu/ppt_wednesday/15_Pa
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26. Open Issues
Unique/persistent identifiers of publications
– Publications on different repositories
– Capture different versions/formats of same
publication
Exclusion of robots
Repository platform specific implementations
– Uniform approach? When?
– What happens in thematic repositories?
Volume of usage stats – OpenAIRE sets?
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27. OpenAIRE workplan & timeline
May-July, 2010
– OpenAIRE internal specifications for usage
data and transfer specs
November, 2010
– Usage data exchange guidelines for
OpenAIRE compliant repositories
– Harvester, aggregator service
July, 2011
– Usage statistics service
– Web usage statistics graphical tools
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