Implementing OpenAire in Italy: challenges and lessons learned
Paola Gargiulo and Ilaria Fava - CASPUR
Eurocris Meeting, Bologna 26-27 May 2011
OA: the Italian context
Lack of a national policy on OA– Bottom up approach
Scarce awareness of OA and its implications (govt level, university policy makers and administrators level)
Growing supportive community (young researchers, IT staff, librarians)– growing number of OA repositories (over 50) and peer
reviewed OA journals (over 100)– strong committment from CILEA and CASPUR– PLEIADI
Platform for Italian Electronic Scientific Literature in Archives and Institutional Repositories (service provider) run by CILEA & CASPUR
www.openarchives.it/pleiadiLaunched in 2004 Objectives:To provide various services to the users of Italian institutional
repositories (data providers)
To offer a solution to difficulty in retrieving OA full text scholarly documents
To promote awareness on OA issues and to contribute to the debate on OA
To offer a forum for exchanging information among the OA community members
PLEIADI platform: end-user services
Federated search interface 29,000 FT documents
User-centered services a community for open access: news, mailing list,
wiki, rss aggregator list of web resources user profiling, customized alert services and
Web 2.0 features
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current architecture
OpenAire in the Italian contextAction Plan for 2011- 2012
– Revision of architecture and new interface deployment
– Change in harvesting policy (currently limited to full text data providers)
– Future collaboration with DART Europe to provide metadata for Italian doctoral theses
– PLEIADI and OpenAire
OpenAIRE: Open Access Infrastructure to Research in Europe
European project funded in FP7 Programme – Research Infrastructures
Duration: 2009- 2012
38 partners (coordination, scientific communities, technical partners, libraries/libraryIT) of which 27 national organizations covering the entire European Union
its goal is to implement the FP7 Open Access Pilot Project
European Commission support to Research and Innovation
Serving science and research Research is build on former work Duplication of research should be avoided Access for all researchers and institutions Improved access & dissemination is vital to scientific progress
Benefitting innovation In order to generate innovation access to knowledge should be
improved Knowledge transfer to industry and also to SMEs is possible when
knowledge circulates more
Improving return on investment in R&D Free access to results funded by tax payers’ money is a question of
principle Societal impact of R&D – access for NGOs and citizens
Source: Celina Ramjoué. EC Directorate- General for Research. “Open Access: supporting European Research and Innovation” presentation at OpenAire Launch Event, Ghent University Library, 2 December 2010
European Commission’s Approach to Open Access
Promoting Open Access in the European Research Area Funding several projects in support of OA (infrastructures, services, studies, initiatives, networking activities) aimed to enable OA, e.g.:
DRIVER I e DRIVER II PEER (7PQ) SOAP (7PQ VOA3R (7PQ) OpenAire (7PQ)
Disseminating research output funded within FP7 (Reimbursement of Publishing Costs and Open Access Pilot Project)
Promoting policy debates at European level and encouraging member states to take coordinated action
Reimbursement of open access publishing costs
Open access publishing costs are covered in FP7– From the beginning of FP7– Publication costs (including author pays/gold
open access fees) are elegible for reimbursement:
– Legal reference :II.16.4 of FP7 Model Grant Agreement permits 100% reimbursement for “other activities” including open access publications
– Limited to duration of project
Source: Celina Ramjoué. EC Directorate- General for Research. “Open Access: supporting European Research and Innovation” presentation at OpenAire Launch Event, Ghent University Library, 2 December 2010
FP7 : Open Access Pilot Project
Launched in August 2008 Open Access applies to any manuscript that:– is peer reviewed and accepted for
publication– results from funded research in one of
the 7 areas (20% of the total budget of FP7)
– has a grant agreement signed after August 2008 bearing the Special Clause 39 [700 grant agreements contain this clause (November 2010)]
EU Open Access Pilot Project:Special Clause 39
Seven Areas– Energy– Environment (including Climate
change)– Health– ICT (only cognitive
systems,interaction and robotics)– Research Infrastructures– Science in Society– Socioeconomic Sciences and
Humanities
Embargo (6/12 months)– allows scientific publishers to
ensure a profit for their investement
– While then providing OA to research articles once the embargo has lapsed
Special Clause 39 of Grant AgreementFP7 grant recipients shall
– deposit peer reviewed research resulting form their FP7 projects into a on online repository
– make best effort to ensure open access to these articles within 6 months after publication (12 months for Science in Society and for Socioeconomic Sciences and Humanities)
A formulation that strongly encourages researchers& publishers to comply, while guaranteeing scientific freedomReference: Guide to IP Rules for FP7 Projects, p. 15-18– Researchers/authors are invited to seek information on
publishing models and copyright/licensing policies (e.g Sherpa Romeo)
– If publishers’ policies do not allow compliance with the grant agreement, authors are invited to negotiate an amendment or request an authorization to self-archive
– If authors cannot comply with SC39, EC has to be informed and provided with publisher’s proof of refusal
Source: Celina Ramjoué. EC Directorate- General for Research. “Open Access: supporting European Research and Innovation” presentation at OpenAire Launch Event, Ghent University Library, 2 December 2010
Best effort
Communication from the Commission “Innovation Union” (COM (2010) 546, 06.10.2010)– Promoting openess and capitalising on Europe’s
creative potentials Committment 20: “ The Commission will promote
open access to the results of publicly funded research. It will aim to make open access to publications the general principle for project funded by the EU research framework programme [...]”
Source: Celina Ramjoué. EC Directorate- General for Research. “Open Access: supporting European Research and Innovation” presentation at OpenAire Launch Event, Ghent University Library, 2 December 2010
Innovation Union
Digital Agenda
Communication from the Commission ‘ A digital Agenda for Europe’ (COM(2010)245, 19.05.2010)– Driving ICT innovation by exploiting the single
market […] publicly funded research should be widely
disseminated through Open Access publication of scientific data and papers”;
[…] the Commission will appropriatelt extend current Open Access publication requirements […]
Source: Celina Ramjoué. EC Directorate- General for Research. “Open Access: supporting European Research and Innovation” presentation at OpenAire Launch Event, Ghent University Library, 2 December 2010
OpenAire www.openaire.eu
OpenAireIts portal is built on D-NET (same technology used in DRIVER)
Access to scientific publications
Search, browse
Visualization tools
Link to OpenAire compliant repositories for deposition of articles
Harvest OA publications from existing repositories
Authors’ claim OA publications from DRIVER or through DOI
OpenAire cont.
Repository available for orphan researchers
Provide monitoring tools for document/depositing statistics
Usage statistics from repository infrastructure
Interoperation with other infrastructures
OpenAire ToolsFor repository managers– OA repositories guidelines – Validator for repository compliance
For policy makers– research Institutions toolkit
For researchers– Toolkit
FAQs, News, Twitter
27 National OA Desks
Interface and support information will be available in all languages
Improving data acquisition Studies and experimentations
OpenAIRE research activities (WP7) CRIS systems: define OpenAIRE compatibility for CRIS
systems (i.e., inclusive of publication metadata) and enable registration and harvesting of CRIS systems Knowledge Exchange CRIS/OAR initiative Cooperation with EuroCRIS To be continued in OpenAIREplus…
Usage stats Collecting stats from repositories
Research data Linking publications and data
Source: Paolo Manghi, CNR ISST- Pisa “ Architecture based on repositories: The OpenAire experience”, 2nd Workshop on CRIS, CERIF and OAR, Rome, May23rd
http://www.irpps.cnr.it/en/events/2nd-workshop-on-cris-cerif-and-institutional-repositories-integrating-research-information-crisoar
Impact on Research
OpenAIRE measures research impact per publication, researcher, project, institution, country
Challanges
Will OpenAire/Clause 39 have a positive/virtuous impact on OA in Italy?– Implementing and populating OAR, policies, practices,
awareness, funds monitoring, ROI, research output impact, etc
Will the Research Management Office and the OAR managers and in general the library system start collaborating effectively?
How critical will it be to reach compliance to OpenAire harvesting guidelines?
Some results and some issues
Increased awareness on OA in Research Management Office and University Management– Italian universities partecipate in over a 100 current FP7
Projects bearing Clause 39
Collaboration among Research Management Office, OAR managers / library system is not always easy– some good practices (Politecnico di Torino, Univ. Milano
Statale, Milano Bicocca)
OpenAire and Italian OAR and CRIS interoperability Issues related to oai_dc application in OpenAire and the local
context (see rights management and embargo) National Doctoral Thesis Harvesting Initiative (legal deposit)
Impact of Grant Agreement Identifier on local CRIS
Lessons Learned
In order to succeed OA needs a close collaboration between OAR and CRIS communities– to maximise quality research impact and avoid
duplication of efforts
Researchers and Research Management Unit need library support to fully implement OA policies and practices in the academic and research environment and viceversa– copyright issues, metadata, research workflow,
discoverability etc.
Awareness, dissemination of OA principles and OA initiatives are needed, funds on support of OA as well
OpenAIRE: who’s who
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University of Athens (coordinator)
CNR-ISTI (technical coordinator)
University of Goettingen Library (scientific coordinator)
University of Bielefeld
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
CERN
SURF
ICM – University of Warsaw
University of Minho
University of Gent Library
eIFL
Technical University Denmark
Comunità ScientificheSalute (Scienze della vita)
EMBL-EBI
Ambiente
• World Data Center for Climate
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
ICT
• Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)
Scienze Socio-economiche e Umanistiche
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Partners
27NOAD
• University of Athens (coordinator)
• CNR-ISTI (technical coordinator)
• University of Goettingen Library (scientific coordinator)
University of Bielefeld
• Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
CERN
SURF
• ICM – University of Warsaw
University of Minho
University of Gent Library
eIFL
Technical University Denmark
Scientific CommunitiesHealth (Life Sciences)
EMBL-EBI
Environment
• World Data Center for Climate
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
ICT
• Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)
Socio-economic and Human Sciences
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Italy
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