5 min presentation on "Issues and Challenges for an Open Access Policy: stakeholders’ testimonies" at the MCTES/Europeana meeting with the Portuguese Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education. 27-01-2016, Lisbon.

1. From the RepositóriUM to the
European Open Access Infrastructure
OA challenges and future directions
Pedro Príncipe
pedroprincipe@sdum.uminho.pt
Lisbon, 27-January-2016
@MCTES meeting “Issues and Challenges for an Open Access Policy: stakeholders’ testimonies”

2. Scientific
Information
Infrastructures
Training &
dissemination
Advocacy &
policies
International
alignment &
cooperation

3. CURRENT UMINHO EUROPEAN OA PARTICIPATION
OpenAIRE FOSTER PASTEUR4OA
Infra-
structure
& services
OA
training
(bottom
up)
OA
policies
(top
down)
OA IN THE
EUROPEAN
RESEARCH
AREA

4. LESSONS LEARNED…
 Products of science live in disconnected
silos
 Articles, research outputs, datasets, software
are deposited in disconnected repositories
 Interoperability at all levels: human,
organization, policy, technology
 One size does not fit all
 Funders lack policies enabling impact
measurement
 No rigorous guidelines on how to link
products to funding (H2020 drives the change) 4

5. OPEN ACCESS CHALLENGES
 Cultural heritage as research data
 Link Publications to Data
 Link Publications & Data to funding info
5
PUBLICATION
DATAPROJECT
FUNDING
SCIENTIFIC
PROCESS

6. FUTURE DIRECTIONS
 Integration of existing e-Infrastructures
 At service and policy level
 Investment on data skills
 Researchers AND support system
 User centric, service oriented
 Keep it simple
 Small steps often lead towards big changes
 Openness at all levels
 Open Science, Open Design, Open Source…
6Future directions based on Natalia Manola (@OpenAIRE_EU) presentation at ICT 2015 Lisbon.