Europe’s Transition to Open ScienceSusan Reilly

Executive Director, LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries

WLIC 2016, Columbus, USA

@skreilly

Overview

Origins of the Open Science Agenda in EuropeH2020 Open Data PilotMember states transitioning towards Open ScienceIfs, ands, or buts?

Open Access 2020

The Digital Single Market: Open Science

in Europe

European Parliament

Copyright Reform

Member States

European Commission

H2020 OpenData Pilot

Open Science Cloud

Open Science Policy Platform

FAIR data

Open Science Definition

“The practice 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, it’s underlying data and methods”

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

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

EU Horizon 2020 Mandates

Open Access Mandatory (2015) Open Data Pilot (7 funding areas, 2015) Open Data pilot extended to all funding

areas from 2017

H2020 Open Data Pilot

Opt out at any stage (1/3 opted out so far) All research data, including metadata, needed

to validate the results in a peer-reviewed publication

Other curated or raw data, and its associated metadata, specified in the DMP even if it did not result in a publication;

Documentation, software, hardware or tools required to enable reuse of the data

DMP obilgatory

http://knowledgebase.e-irg.eu/documents/243153/246094/E-infrastructures+-+making+Europe+the+best+place+for+research+and+innovation.pdf

The European Open Science Cloud

A virtual environment to store and process large volumes of information

http://libereurope.eu/blog/2015/11/04/an-open-and-community-driven-open-science-cloud

European Member States Commitment

All member states to transition towards Open Science (council conclusion May 2016)

Open access the default by 2020 Research data from publically funded projects

a public good Data management standard scientific practice DMPs obilgatory Follow FAIR principles

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

Regional differences in consultative RDS availability

Regional differences in technical RDS availability

LEARN: Roadmapping RDM

Issues Policies Costs Infrastructure Skills Advocacy and engagement

Roadmapping RDM in institutions Self assessment Dialogue RDM Templates

http://learn-rdm.eu/

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

Ifs, Ands, or Buts

Publications Research data Data Infrastructure Tools & software

?Data management plans should be open ?Copyright flexible enough to adapt to

capabilities of digital technology?Access to data about publically funded

research

Open Science is GlobalKnowledge as a public goodOpen data by defaultAccess via publically owned infrastructureAccess to digital technologies Data literacyClosing the citizen science gapDiscoverability (metadata)

Thank You!Any questions?

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