CeDEM13 Day 2 morning Workshop – Open Research: Data Management and Policies in the Austrian national context (Michela Vignoli, Ross King)

1. Policy Recommendations
for Open Research
Introduction
Dr. Ross King
Senior Scientist
Safety & Security Department
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

2. SCAPE Project
§ Planning and executing computing-intensive digital preservation processes
such as the large-scale ingestion, characterisation or migration of large
(multi-Terabyte) and complex data sets
§ EU FP7 Collaborative Project
§ 16 Partners, 11 M€
§ SCAPE-Enlarged
§ 20 Partners, 12 M€
www.scape-project.eu
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from digitalbevaring.dk

3. Why Open Research?
Do we need a democratization of science?
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4. Why Open Research?
Hypothesis: Open Research is easier than Open Government
§ Research is more homogeneous worldwide
§ Less institutional resistance
§ Fewer legislative hurdles
§ Synergy – requirements for Open Government data portals are
similar to those for Open Research
§ More research data!
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5. Why Austria?
§ Advanced in eGovernment, Open Government
§ Relatively high level of awareness
§ Good size for a testbed
§ Top-down national polices can have a strong effect
§ BUT…
§ Highly federalized
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6. Status in Austria
§ No national Open Access Strategy
§ OA driven at the institutional level (e.g. FWF, ÖAW)
§ OA is established in performance agreements between Austrian
Universities and the BMWF
§ But at a somewhat restricted level
„Die Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Wien wird in Weiterführung der Open Access-Initiative
Services und Infrastruktur zur Selbstarchivierung („Grüner Weg“) des Forschungsoutputs
(Publikationen und primäre Forschungsdaten) der Universität Wien anbieten und Services zur
Publikationsunterstützung entwickeln. Zugleich wird sie eine Studie zur weltweiten Diskussion
über die Konsequenzen einer weitreichenden Umsetzung der Open Access-Strategie erstellen.“
§ Open Access Network Austria (OANA) established
§ http://www.oana.at/
§ Open Government data established
§ http://data.gv.at/
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7. Supporting Actions
§ High-level (Ministry Sektionschef) champion needed
§ Code for the responsible conduct of research
§ Austrian investment in e-Infrastructure supporting Open Access to
research data
§ data.gv.at is just a starting point
• e.g. Australian National Data Service – ANDS
• e.g. ENGAGE
§ Institutionally driven
§ Federated, with standards for discovery and exchange
• 9 Austrian repositories registered with ROAR, see
http://roar.eprints.org/
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8. Policy Recommendations should:
§ Be clearly formulated in order to be a strong guideline for a successful
implementation of Open Research
§ Consider proprietary interests (i.e. not force to publish Open Access when
not possible)
§ Address legal aspects (i.e. licensing, copyright issues)
§ Include Data Management and accessibility requirements
§ Include provenance requirements of Research Data (i.e. attribution,
versioning)
§ Make transparent statements about costs and define how/by whom these
should be financed
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9. Research Council UK Policy on Open Access
This policy covers access to research publications
§ All peer‐reviewed research and review articles normally published in academic
journals or conference proceedings, and which acknowledge Research Council
funding
§ Does not cover monographs, books, critical editions, volumes and catalogues, or
forms of non‐peer‐reviewed material. However, RCUK encourages authors of such
material to consider making them Open Access where possible.
§ http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/documents/RCUKOpenAccessPolicy.pdf
§ Highly detailed
§ Definitions
§ Time frames
§ Eligible costs
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10. Science Europe Position Statement
Principles for the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications
§ Publication and dissemination of results are an integral part of the research process.
The allocation of resources within the research system must take this into account;
§ Open Access to the published results of publicly-funded research will have huge value
for the research community and will offer significant social and economic benefits to
potential users in industry, charitable and public sectors, to individual professionals,
and to the general public;
§ Open Access, as defined in the Berlin Declaration, is […] also about the opportunity to
re-use information with as few restrictions as possible, subject to proper attribution;
§ The common goal of Science Europe Members is to shift to a research publication
system in which free access to research publications is guaranteed, and which avoids
undue publication barriers. This involves a move towards Open Access, replacing the
present subscription system with other publication models whilst redirecting and
reorganising the current resources accordingly.
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11. Open Access Policy Objectives for "Horizon 2020"
Open access to research results will boost Europe's innovation capacity
§ As a first step, the Commission will make open access to scientific publications a
general principle of Horizon 2020, the EU's Research & Innovation funding
programme for 2014-2020. As of 2014, all articles produced with funding from Horizon
2020 will have to be accessible:
§ Articles will either immediately be made accessible online by the publisher ('Gold'
open access) - up-front publication costs can be eligible for reimbursement by the
European Commission; or
§ Researchers will make their articles available through an open access repository no
later than six months (12 months for articles in the fields of social sciences and
humanities) after publication ('Green' open access).
§ http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-12-790_en.htm
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12. Policy Recommendations: Suggestions
§ Change evaluation and incentive structures
§ Funding agencies
• Policies for the evaluation of research proposals and projects
• Funding agencies should require institutions participating in
nationally funded to make their research results available to Open
Access principles when possible (like FWF)
• Funding Open Access publishing and infrastructure should be
eligible costs
§ Institutions
• Institutions participating in nationally funded research should have a
Data Management Plan
• Policies for the evaluation of scientific staff
– San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
http://am.ascb.org/dora/
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13. AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
your ingenious partner
Dr. Ross King
ross.king@ait.ac.at