“Open Science - benefits for researchers in the 21st century”, October 20, 2015, National Library of Latvia, Riga The role of open access and its practical implementation in research institutions Iryna Kuchma Attribution 4.0 International Strategies to achieve open access Open access journals and monographs Open access repositories What are the advantages of a repository to a University? Opens up the outputs of the university to the world Maximises the visibility and impact of these outputs as a result Showcases the university to interested constituencies – prospective staff, prospective students and other stakeholders What are the advantages of a repository to a University? (2) Collects and curates digital outputs Manages and measures research and teaching activities Provides a workspace for work-in-progress, and for collaborative or large-scale projects What are the advantages of a repository to a University? (3) Enables and encourages interdisciplinary approaches to research Facilitates the development and sharing of digital teaching materials and aids Supports student endeavours, providing access to theses and dissertations and a location for the development of e-portfolios OPEN ACCESS INFRASTRUCTURE OpenAIRE for research in Europe 10 www.openaire.eu Guided by OA funder policies (European Commission) Participatory approach (human & e-infrastructure) Integrated Scientific Information System Project & Infrastructure… 11 12 Literature Repositorie s OA Journals Funding Info Validation Cleaning De- duplicatin g Inferring Linking Organiz ations Projects AuthorsDatasets Publicatio ns Data Providers … Monitoring Reporting Evaluatio n Impact Classific ation Clusteri ng Analysis CRIS systems A mini EU-CRIS system Data Repositorie s Metadat a Full text Usage data Discovery Crowdsourcin g Zenodo APIs Data ProvidersOpenAIRE PlatformServices Linking research results 3 easy steps Identify projects (EC +) Find publications/data Set access rights Publications and data to projects View aggregated project scientific output YOU MAY USE THE OPENAIRE SERVICES TO GET THE AGGREGATED PROJECT OUTPUT IN A FORMAT THAT YOU CAN USE FOR YOUR REPORTING OR MONITORING. You can get to a project landing page through the use of our search/browse facilities and search for your project either by the name, acronym or project identifier. 14 A project view 15 A project report 16 All project publications in HTML or CSV Project apps Use OpenAIRE to aggregate and disseminate all project’s publications 17 Copy snippet on project site to display all publications Statistics Individual statistics Project, publication/data (usage), author Aggregated statistics over Funding agency, programme, scientific area, country, institution OA evaluation Advanced statistics based on content classification and clustering 18 Project statistics 19 Project productivity over time Post project-end monitoring Pubs location OA mandate conformance Monitoring OA policies 20 91% 9% SC39 in FP7 FP7 35% 61% 3% 1% SC39 OA evaluation OA closed restricted embargo FP7 OA pilot evaluation Funders Overall policy monitoring Scientific outcome reporting First step in impact assessment Links to advanced indicators Return on investment Evidence based policy making 21 Funders • PROJECT IDENTIFIER (MANDATORY) • PROJECT TITLE or ACRONYM (MANDATORY) • FUNDER NAME (MANDATORY), e.g. Wellcome Trust, EC • START DATE (MANDATORY), • END DATE (MANDATORY) • FUNDING STREAM(S) (OPTIONAL) – funding categories for more detailed statistics • ORGANIZATION(S) INVOLVED (OPTIONAL) OpenAIRE would like to use a 'very limited' set of metadata fields from funders, no personal or private details are needed, e.g. no people's names, budget details 22 23 24 Seven benefits to implementing an OA policy Systematically contribute to the greater worldwide visibility of your researchers, their groups, centers, departments, helping to increase their international reach and impact With a greater web presence, help increase your institution’s ranking position. Seven benefits to implementing an OA policy Contribute to the faster innovative and economic growth of your region and your country by providing access to results to other smaller research institutions, SMEs and other industry innovators. Stimulate new research partnerships and project collaborations, and generate further research income for your institution. Seven benefits to implementing an OA policy Making your institution’s knowledge open access means increasing its value by being more accessible and used by professionals, practitioners, business and industry. Increase the social impact and reputation of your institution through greater visibility of research results through more channels. Seven benefits to implementing an OA policy Demonstrate your institution’s commitment to open access and open science in no uncertain terms. (SPARC Europe) On policy Every institution of higher education should have a policy assuring that peer- reviewed versions of all future scholarly articles by faculty members are deposited in the institution’s designated repository On policy (2) University policies should respect faculty freedom to submit new work to the journals of their choice. University policies should encourage but not require publication in OA journals, and should help faculty understand the difference between depositing in an OA repository and publishing in an OA journal. On policy (3) Every institution of higher education offering advanced degrees should have a policy assuring that future theses and dissertations are deposited upon acceptance in the institution's OA repository. At the request of students who want to publish their work, or seek a patent on a patentable discovery, policies should grant reasonable delays rather than permanent exemptions. On policy (4) Every research funding agency, public or private, should have a policy assuring that peer- reviewed versions of all future scholarly articles reporting funded research are deposited in a suitable repository and made OA as soon as practicable. On policy (5) Universities with institutional repositories should require deposit in the repository for all research articles to be considered for promotion, tenure, or other forms of internal assessment and review. On policy (6) Insofar as universities, funding agencies, and research assessment programs need to measure the impact of individual articles, they should use article-level metrics, not journal-level metrics On policy (7) Similarly, governments performing research assessment should require deposit in OA repositories for all research articles to be reviewed for national assessment purposes. 1. Do not use journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles, to assess an individual scientist's contributions, or in hiring, promotion, or funding decisions. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) http://am.ascb.org/dora/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/staff/staff-news/0115/16012015-ucl-signs-declaration-on-research-assessment “…for the purposes of research assessment, consider the value and impact of all research outputs (including datasets and software) in addition to research publications, and consider a broad range of impact measures including qualitative indicators of research impact, such as influence on policy and practice. Researchers should: “…use a range of article metrics and indicators on personal/supporting statements, as evidence of the impact of individual published articles and other research outputs” The Institution: Collects and preserves its scientific output and disseminates it through its repository Provides the possibility of indexing and tracking the scientific output of the institution from international search engines on the internet, like Google etc. Monitors the number of visits and use and collects data and indicators that can be used in institutional planning, and the search for sources of funding etc. The Institution: (2) Provides opportunities for the use and re-use of the institution’s output for scientific purposes (CVs, publications, excellence reports, indicators, institutional websites, personal websites etc.) Strengthens international communication and collaboration channels and the institution’s international profile The researchers: Increase the visibility of their research and their citations Increase the usage of their research Increase the impact of their research Obtain a permanent link for each of their research outputs Make a list of open access publication options in your particular field. Chances are you will be surprised by the range of possibilities Erin McKiernan Discuss access issues with your collaborators up front, before the research is done and the articles written. Erin McKiernan Blog about your science, and in language that is comprehensible to non- scientists. Doing this can ultimately increase the impact of your work and can even lead sometimes to press coverage and to better press coverage. Erin McKiernan Be active on social media. This is the way academic reputations are built today, so ignoring the opportunities presented is unwise. Erin McKiernan If for some reason you do publish a closed- access article, remember that you can self- archive a copy of your article in a disciplinary or institutional or shared repository. Erin McKiernan Thank you! Questions? iryna.kuchma@eifl.net www.eifl.net