Presentation at the OpenAIRE-COAR Conference: "Open Access Movement to Reality: Putting the Pieces Together", Athens - May 21-22, 2014. Open Access: The INRIA Experience by Gregory Grefenstette - INRIA Senior Researcher

1. Open Access
the INRIA Experience
Gregory Grefenstette
TRACES
Inria
OpenAIRE, May 22, 2014

2. Inria: The French Institute for Research in ICST
Information and Communication Science and Technologies
2
RESEARCH
TECHNOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT
AND
EXPERIMENTATION
EDUCATION
AND
TRAINING
TRANSFER
AND
INNOVATION
• Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry
• Dedicated to produce global research excellence
• highest impact of research results on both economy and society
May 22, 2014OpenAIRE Conference

3. Inria key figures
3
4,400
People
(60 % paid by INRIA)
Associate
teams
60Research
Centers
in France
8
Project teams
~180
Scientific
publications
4,500
European
Research
Council Grants
33 / 41
A BUDGET OF
Active patents
270
€ 240M
Of which more
than 28% from
external resources
Scientists
3,600
1,200 PhD
250 Post-Doct
300 R&D engineers
Spin-offs
110
May 22, 2014

4. INRIA and Open Access
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Politics
Platform
Science
Production
May 22, 2014

5. Strong Politics, carrot and stick
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Only publications deposed in Open Access (HAL) are admitted
for yearly team reviews
All APC (article processing costs) are centralized at INRIA level
Not an individual team cost
so Bulk purchasing power
May 22, 2014

6. Open Platform
OpenAire - 6
HAL : CCSD (CNRS, INRIA, INSERM, …)
• Open Archives Initiative - Metadata Harvesting Protocol
• Native TEI backend starting in Sept 2014
• 7th highest used archive
• 330,000 articles with text (25,000 per year), 875,000 with metadata
May 22, 2014

7. Open Science
OpenAire - 7
Standards from storage to display (TEI)
From metadata to document structure to extracted concepts
Open source project GROBID
GROBID
May 22, 2014

8. Production -- EPISCIENCES
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Overlay Journal
• Deposit of a pre-print in a publication repository HAL, arXiv, CWI, etc
• Submission to an editorial board (“journal”) by means of the article ID
• Feedback from the editorial committee — Revised paper is deposited
• Validation (stamping) of the paper in the repository
Real costs
• Stockage (HAL 15€ paper)
• Peer review (200€ EU PEER project)
Experiment with our 2 first journals
• DMTCS - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
• JDMDH – Journal of Data Mining for Digital Humanities
May 22, 2014

9. INRIA and Open Access
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Politics
Platform
Science
Production
May 22, 2014
Impose OA
Provide the platform
Freedom from
Closed systems
Proprietary Formats
Convert Unstructured to Open Standards
for eScience
Add Peer Review
Episcience

10. - 10- 10
Merci
Thank you
www.inria.fr
May 22, 2014