How to comply with the open access mandate and the open research data pilot of European funded projects as a researcher of the University of Ghent, Belgium.

1. Open Access policy
Open Access to publications and data
for EC funded projects
Universiteit Gent
Emilie Hermans
Project Assistant OpenAIRE, UGent

2. OpenAccess Policies
FP7
• Open Access pilot:
7 areas (special clause 39)
Horizon 2020
• Obligation to provide Open Access
in all areas
• Allowed embargoes:
6/12 months
• Allowed embargoes: 6/12 months
• Research data pilot in 9 areas or
you can opt-in
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OpenAccess Policy
“Ensure open access…
as soon as possible and at the latest on
publication, deposit a machine-readable
electronic copy of the published version
or final peer-reviewed manuscript
accepted for publication in a repository
for scientific publications together with
metadata providing the name of the
action, acronym & grant number”
• The grant agreement states:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/mga/gga/h2020-mga-gga-multi_en.pdf
?

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How to Comply with the OAmandate?
1. Publish in any journal of your choice
Subscription based Open Access Journal
2. Deposit an OA version in Biblio
 Add metadata:
funder, grant ID number, acronym, publication date….
Open Access for European funded projects

5. Upload in Biblio
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The id of the project this publication belongs to. Enter part of
the program name, id or grant number to get suggestions.
Open Access for European funded projects

6. Upload in Biblio
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OpenAccess Policy
“Ensure open access…
as soon as possible and at the latest on
publication, deposit a machine-readable
electronic copy of the published version
or final peer-reviewed manuscript
accepted for publication in a repository
for scientific publications together with
metadata providing the name of the
action, acronym & grant number”
• The grant agreement states:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/mga/gga/h2020-mga-gga-multi_en.pdf
 To a pdf of your article
 Deposit in Biblio
 Providing Open Access
 With project information

8. What about my data?
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It is always a good idea to store
your data and associated
metadata in a data repository:
www.re3data.org
• Data management plan tool
dmponline.be
As open as possible as closed as necessary

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OpenAIRE LINKS PROJECT INFORMATION
PROJECT DATA AND PUBLICATIONS.
OFFERS INFRASTRUCTURE, TOOLS,
INFORMATION AND HELP.FACILITATING THE OPEN ACCESS POLICY
OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
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How is my project doing?
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Looking for all publication of a specific EU research project?

10. Open Access for European funded projects 10
www.openaire.eu

11. • Detailed info
• Link to Cordis
• App box
• List of publications
• Data
• Stats
Project page
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13. Progressreport
13Open Access for European funded projects

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Linked to CORDIS

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The FP7 Post-Grant Pilot
• Publication after end of grant
• PILOT: The EC funds OA publishing fees for
publications arising from completed FP7 projects
• Article Processing Charge (APC) ?
 additional: funding OA publication costs

16. THE BASIC ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
• FP7 project must have finished, but no more than two years ago.
• No hybrids: FULLY open access journals: check doaj.org/
• Requested at acceptance date.
• No reimbursement: not for articles accepted before May 2015
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• Max. 3 publications
• Max. 2 000 €/articles and 6 000 €/monographs.
• No extra costs

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Applying for funding
• postgrantoapilot.openaire.eu
Open Access for European funded projects

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Thank you!
biblio.ugent.be/pages/openaccessugent.html
www.openaire.eu
Emilie.Hermans@UGent.be
Openaccess@UGent.be
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Open Access for European funded projects