Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research The Fifth National Information Day: Open Access to Scientific Information and Data Mariela Deliverska, Guenoveva Jecheva, Yanita Zherkova, Peter Stanchev, Radoslav Pavlov Activities in Bulgaria • The National Open Access Desk, which connects researchers, research institutions, and policy makers at a national level on the one end, and the OpenAIRE project services on the other. The focus of the National Open Access Desk’s activities is on support for compliance with the EC Open Access policies. • Bulgarian open access repositories. OpenAIRE • Develops an Open Access, participatory infrastructure for scientific information that includes publications, datasets, funding and interlinking between them – Cooperates with scientific communities to investigate and experiment with the concept of linking publications and associated datasets • Disseminates OA publications, datasets and interlinks them – Broad network of people and repositories in all 28 EU member states plus Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and Iceland 3 Current status of OA developments in Bulgaria o OpenAIRE o OpenAIRE+ o EuDML o Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI) o Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) o Bulgarian Information Consortium o New Bulgarian University o University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski" o Burgas Free University o National Academic Library and Information System Forum o Association of University Libraries (AUL) o Bulgarian National Radio 4 Work together with – Ministry of Education and Science – Ministry of Transport, Information technology and Communications – SPARC EUROPE (http://sparceurope.org/) – Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) ( http://www.coar-repositories.org/) – UNESCO ( http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-inform ation/portals-and-platforms/goap/access-by-region/eur ope-and-north-america/bulgaria/) – Work group “Open access” on Science Europe (SE) (http://www.scienceeurope.org/). 5 Activities in Bulgaria, 2013 • Organizing events in Bulgaria during Open Access Week, October 21-25, 2013 • Organizing the first International Conference BiblioWorld: Technologies, Resources, Practices, 26-27. September 2013, Sofia. • The 460th organization that signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities is the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ( http://openaccess.mpg.de/3883/Signatories ). Activities in Bulgaria • A Commission for developing a vision and action plan for the implementation of the principle of open access to scientific information consists of: Dr. Mariela Deliverska, Director of the Science Directorate – chair and Prof. Alexei Alexeev, representative of the Council of Rectors, Prof. Ivan Dimov, representative of the Head Office of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Prof. Peter Stanchev, Project Coordinator of OpenAIRE, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics—BAS, Prof. Radoslav Pavlov, Project Coordinator of EuDML, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics —BAS, Prof. Rumen Nikolov, Project Coordinator of ATLAS and OpenScout, UniBIT, Vanya Grashkina, Executive Director of the National Centre for Information and Documentation, Rumyana Dimitrova, Expert in the Academy of Agriculture, Bistra Lipovska, Head of Unit at the Science Directorate, Genoveva Zhecheva, Head of Unit at the Science Directorate, Yanita Zherkova, State Expert at the Science Directorate was created. The Commission reviews the state of scientific information in Bulgaria. The Commission develops a vision and action plan for the implementation of the principle of open access to research results and data obtained within projects financed by public funds Recommendations Recommendation 1. The Ministry of Education and Science shall establish a policy of open access. • The national policy of open access should be formulated on the basis of the green model, within which quality is ensured by scientific publications. This should embrace all research institutions which perform and/or disseminate fully or partially state-funded research. Access to the results of state-funded research should be provided to the greatest possible extent. Recommendations Recommendation 2. Scientific institutions and foundations shall also establish policies on open access. • All research institutions and public foundations should implement open access policies consistent with the national policy of open access. Recommendation 3. Universities and other research institutions shall implement and promote the open access policy. • All universities and research institutions should encourage open access policies which are consistent with the national policy of open access. Recommendations Recommendation 4. Exploring the opportunities for coordination between the bibliometric indicator and the open access policies. • An investigation should be carried out on to find out whether it is possible to achieve coordination between the bibliometric indicator and open access. Recommendation 5. A single joint national database for research. • All state-funded research should be entered in the databases of all research institutions and/or be connected in a joint portal for research. Recommendations Recommendation 6. Exploring the need for a repository for the scientific publications of small research institutions. • An investigation of small research institutions’ need of a joint repository should be carried out. Recommendation 7. Scientific publishers, research institutions and publishers shall prepare a joint document on the transition to open access. • Bulgarian scientific institutions should be encouraged to make suggestions on how to perform the transition of Bulgarian scientific journals to open access. Recommendations Recommendation 8. Informing the scientific community. • An information campaign on open access directed to the scientific community should be carried out, in the form of a conference and information materials. Recommendation 9. Coordinating the open access initiative with similar international initiatives. • Representatives of research councils in international research fora can provide coordination with international policies for open access. Recommendations Recommendation 10. Licenses shall receive consideration. • The negotiation of the remuneration of authors within gold open access should be given consideration. Free use of green access and transparency in payment of services should be ensured. Recommendation 11. Participation in national fora for cooperation in the field of interoperability and repositories. • Bulgaria's participation in central fora for cooperation such as Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) should be guaranteed. Recommendations Recommendation 12. Creating a service for long-term storage of scientific publications. • A service for long-term storage should be created, which will ensure that the digital publications can be read and used for a long time. Recommendation 13. Planning open access and long-term conservation of the original data. • The archiving of data should be planned, so as to ensure present and future access to them. National science infrastructure 7. Brief summary of the RI (purpose and scope) Objectives of the project: The main objective of the project is to provide an environment and a technology platform for sharing knowledge and dissemination of the Bulgarian research community’s scientific output. The stated objective of the project involves the accomplishment of the following specific targets: • Creating an electronic repository for search with free access and adding open content for research projects with Bulgarian participation, their scientific results, publications and experimental data. • Creating an automated system for searching, indexing and cataloguing metadata on open-access resources and open-content projects with Bulgarian participation. • Creating an interactive portal with free information, search, retrieval and analysis for projects with Bulgarian participation, their scientific results and experimental data. • Ensuring the interoperability of the portal developed within the project with the corresponding European portal OpenAIRE and OpenAIREPlus for access to open content for projects under the Seventh Framework Programme. • Providing interoperability between the portal and the database with the analytical tools from the national subscription to the Ministry of Education and Science’s research databases. • Validation of the operation of the portal, database and tools. • Attracting Bulgarian university, scientific and business organisations involved in international and Bulgarian projects for contributing information to the portal and access to their electronic repositories with project information. • Disseminating information about the project and the portal and attracting users from science, business and public administration. • Creating a virtual peer forum Business Academy with the possibility of holding video conferences (up to four per year). • Providing post-project sustainability. 8. Categorising the RI (facilities/type; databases/type; complexes/kind) Distributed infrastructure (facilities, databases, researchers) within different institutions. 1. Name of Institution Science–Business National science infrastructure—open access to research in the Republic of Bulgaria 2. Homepage 3. City Sofia 4. Type of organisation Bulgarian consortium: • Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, BAS • Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia • University for Library Studies and Information Technologies with the possibility of adding other Bulgarian universities, universities and research organisations. 5. Scientific and technological field(s) Free access to scientific information and scientific data 6. Type of research infrastructure A network of national research units with the option of wide access, with well-defined research purposes and open access for researchers from other countries. Open Access Repositories •Bulgarian Academy of Sciences http://www.bas.bg/ – DSpace at IMI (Bulgarian Digital Mathematics Library at IMI-BAS)http://sci-gems.math.bas.bg/jspui/ – Bulgarian OpenAIRE Repositoryhttp://www.bg-openaire.eu/ •Burgas Free University http://www.bfu.bg/ – Academic Research Repository at the Burgas Free University http://research.bfu.bg/ •Medical University, Sofia http://mu-sofia.bg/ – Electronic Repository - Central Medical Library - MU, Sofiahttp://nt-cmb.medun.acad.bg:8080/jspui/ •New Bulgarian University http://www.nbu.bg/ – New Bulgarian University Scholar Electronic Repositoryhttp://eprints.nbu.bg/ •Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski” http://www.uni-sofia.bg/ – Research at Sofia Universityhttp://research.uni-sofia.bg/ Topics: • Development of open access to research and scientific information; • Business models, copyrights and licenses for open access; • Strategies for the promotion of open access; • Examples of policies for the development and promotion of open access to the national and institutional levels; • Recommendations for the development of policies for the promotion of open access. • http:// eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:194:0039:0043:BG:PDF 17 Conclusions • How could collaborative and collective efforts advance OA in the region? – conferences – workshops for technical infrastructure – workshops for system administrators – workshops for content managers – consultations – disseminate best practices Questions? For more: OpenAIRE infrastructure: http://www.openaire.eu DRIVER infrastructure: http://www.driver-community.eu D-NET Software toolkit: http://www.d-net.research-infrastructures.eu Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research The Fifth National Information Day: Open Access to Scientific Information and Data Mariela Deliverska, Guenoveva Jecheva, Yanita Zherkova, Peter Stanchev, Radoslav Pavlov