Libraries Enabling Open Science:LIBER Strategy & Advocacy

Susan Reilly

Executive Director, LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries

LAI/CILIP Ireland, Killarney, 14 Apr

@skreilly

Overview

Introduction to LIBER

The Open Science Agenda in Europe

LIBER Advocacy

The Collective Role of International Library Organisations

What is LIBER?

A pan-European membership organisation representing 420+ research libraries from across Europe

Mission to create an information infrastructure that enables research in LIBER institutions to be world class

Competitiveness Council of Europe

European Commission• H2020 Open Data

Pilot• Digital Single Market• Open Science Cloud

• Development of open science agenda

• Importance of skills, infra

The Digital Single Market: Open Science in Europe

European Parliament• Copyright legislation• H2020 funding

Science in Transition: from Science 2.0 to Open Science

EU consultation on Science 2.0 (July-September 2014)

498 responses and 27 position statements 43% of respondents chose “Open Science” as

their preferred term out of 6 terms

Drivers for Open Science

Areas for Policy Intervention

Open Access & Copyright Citizen Science Researchers’ Careers Peer Review & Research Evaluation New Metrics Other: Funding, Skills, Infrastructure

Open Science Definition

“The conduction of science in a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, with terms that allow reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research”

https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/foster-taxonomy/open-science-definition

Open Science Goals

• Transparency in experimental methodology, observation, and collection of data

• Public availability and reusability of scientific data• Public accessibility and transparency of scientific

communication• Citizen engagement*• Using web-based tools to facilitate scientific

collaborationDan Gezelter, http://www.openscience.org/blog/?p=269 *EU

To an Open Science Landscape

Open access publishing

New forms of peer review

Open infrastructureResearch data management

Open educational resources

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Open notebooks

Collaboration

Coyright & licencing

Policy

Advocacy & trainingAlternative Metrics

Open data

Open source

From Gate Keeper to Embedded Librarian

Findable + Accessible + Usable +Reusable = Sustainable Information Access

Fake data!

The Commons Are Forever (Newcastle)

Our Advocacy Strategy

Open Science

Libraries enabling Open Science

“We believe that the move towards openness will lead to increased transparency, better quality

research, a higher level of citizen engagement, and will accelerate the pace of scientific discovery through the facilitation of data-driven innovation.”http://libereurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/

LIBER_Statement-on-open-science-final.pdf

Mobilising our Libraries: RDM

Making the Case to Policy Makers: Netherlands EU Presidency Open Science Conference Amsterdam, 4/5 April 2016

Mobilising the Community: Copyright

Recognition that copyright needs to be modernised to support Open Science and the Digital Single Market

European Commission to publish proposals for copyright reform in October 2016 TDM Cross Border

Text & Data Mining is the future

“Text and data mining (TDM) is the process of deriving information from machine-read material. It works by copying large quantities of material, extracting the data, and recombining it to identify patterns.” JISC

Human Computers (1901)

http://marlowe-shakespeare.blogspot.nl/2009/02/on-mendenhall-and-compelling-evidence.html

"This above all: to thine own self

be true".

4 5 3 2 5 3 4 2 4

Measuring Happiness

Copyright v TDM

• Because it involves the copying of content in order to convert into machine readable format TDM may infringe copyright

• European Database Directive prohibits copying of substantial parts of databases• In US TDM is covered by fair use, other parts of the world have a specific exception e.g. Japan, UK

https://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/304195427/

Elsevier TDM Policy

• Access through API only• Text only- no images, tables• Research must register details• Click-through licence• Terms can change any time• Reproducibility of results

1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WAS NOT DESIGNED TO REGULATE THE FREE FLOW OF FACTS, DATA AND IDEAS, BUT HAS AS A KEY OBJECTIVE THE

PROMOTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY

The Collective Role of International Library Organisations

“The library is a growing organism” (Ranganathan, 1931)

Common visionBest practiceCapacity buildingShare infrastructureHigh level representation

The Collective Role of International Library Organisations

Partner with other stakeholders Represent our users Make the case for access to

informationEveryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this

right includes freedom to hold opinions

without interference and to seek, receive

and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Article 19,

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Thank You!Any questions?

@skreilly

www.libereurope.eu