OpenAIRE at EC INFSO-RTD Open Access co-ordination workshop, Brussels, May 2011

Western European NOADs‘ experience

Awareness raising and how to reach researchers and their organisations

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Main Goals

Deliver “an electronic infrastructure and supporting mechanisms for the identification, deposition, access, and monitoring of FP7 and ERC funded articles”

Additionally, offer “a special repository for articles that can be stored neither in institutional nor in subject-based/thematic repositories”.

All deposited articles will be visible and freely accessible worldwide through a new portal to the products of EU-funded research, built as part of this project.

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Helpdesk

Orphan repository

Openaire portal

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Network of National Open Access Desks (NOAD) in 27 European countries

Devided in 4 regions

A coordination team taking care of the toolkits, the helpdesk, communication planning, …

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Helpdesk portal

Toolkits for authors, research institutions, repository managers, NOADs

FAQ

“ask a question” ticketing system

Copyright information

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Liaison Offices

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Region west

Several countries very active in open access since years– Workflows in place: infiltrate– Imbedded in existing associations /

institutions: make use of them

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Goal

To make compliance as easy as possible for the researcher

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Infiltrate in workflow researchers

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Connect projectinfo to publication

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Primary actions of NOAD

focus on OpenAIRE compliancy

focus on contact with NCP and repository managers

point to orphan repository

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Repository managers

OpenAIRE guidelines define how to include project information, extension of driver guidelines

Primary group to target: DRIVER compliant repositories

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Risks

Sometimes hesitant to become OpenAIRE compliant (first driver, now openaire, what’s next?)

Many have small budgets for development (even small adjustments cost and should be scheduled)

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Compliant repositories in region West

HAL

Archimer

UGent Biblio

Soon to be compliant:– RIAN

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National contact points NCP

All countries are in contact with NCP

Some NCP’s reluctant to work together (the letter of EC was helpful)

Several NOADs have organized an info day and have written publications in local journals

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Local contact points

Different approach big countries / small countries.– Big country like France: difficult to

approach universities individually– Small country like Belgium: no problem to

visit all the universities individuallyLocal contact points like to contact their researchers themselves

=> give them the information to include in their FP7 information packages, eg letters, leaflets, …

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Support EC needed

Updated list of FP7 funded projects with Clause 39 as well as contact details of the project partners will be very valuable for further project dissemination activities 

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Funding agencies

Liaise with local funding agencies

Interest is shown in the guidelines for their own purposes

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Other activities

In Austria and Belgium OpenAIRE was an accelerator to revive resp. develop a dedicated open access site:

www.openaire.at

www.openaire.be

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Thank you for your attention!

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