Austrian Transition to Open Access and

beyond

Patrick Danowski

Austria 2012

• only a few Institutional Repositories (3)

• FWF funds Hybrid OA publications

• overall Austria not a strong OA player

• No discussion green vs. gold

• voluntary bottom up initiative

• focus on moving Open Access forward (with Open Science in mind)

• 57 member institutions

• different working groups

Source: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.34079

“Since it is now technically possible,it is the intrinsic duty of public authorities to enforce the transition to full Open Accesspolitically and financially.”

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Goal 100% Gold OA in 2025

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Recommendations 1/2• Reorganize publishing

contracts

• Support international cooperation

• Introduce publication funds

• Reorganize publication venues

• Merging the publication infrastructure

• Monitoring during implementation

• Acknowledging Open Access / Open Science

• Set targets for Open Science

Recommendations 2/2

• Introduce Open Access policy

• Registration of repositories

• Support self-archiving

• Offer training programs

• Opening the inventories

• Provide start-up capital

• Expand the scope of the copyright reform of 2015

• Create cost transparency

Introduce OA PolicyNo Information

2

No 6

In Planing 6

Yes 9

Information from 23 project partners

(eInfrastructure)

• EU Network PASTEUR4OA says that FWF has one of the most effective OA policies of a public funder in Europe.

• Austrian Court of Audit recently claims OA for all publicly funded research.

From 2020 onward, license agreements with publishers should be concluded in a manner that the research publications are automatically published OA.

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Reorganize publisher contracts

Reorganize publisher contracts

In Negotiation: Wiley, Elsevier

From 2017 onward, all research and funding organizations in Austria should participate jointly in national and international initiatives that promote high-quality non-commercial publication models and infrastructures.

Support international cooperation

Support international cooperationFWF ~ € 50.000 p.a.

Univ Vienna / FWF $ 6.000 p.a.

consortium of 16 institutions € 34.500 p.a.

consortium of 4 institutions € 30.000 p.a.

Academy of Fine Arts / FWF € 17.500 p.a.

Openness is the normative pledge of science and scholarship.It is the precondition that research results can be replicated, verified, falsified and reused for scholarly as well asfor practical applications.

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Towards Open Science

• The strategy [..] should be developed into a full-fledged Open Science strategy from 2017 onward.

• OANA plans to investigate Open Research Data, OER & future of scholary communication.

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Together we can manage the transition

to Open Access as base for Open

Sciencepatrick.danowski@ist.ac.at

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