OpenAIRE case study presented by Iryna Kuchma at EIFL General Assembly, Lund, August 6, 2010

1. FP7-Infrastructures
Case study: OpenAIRE
project – EU funders’ mandates
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2. EC Open access pilot
The European Commission launched the open
access pilot in August 2008 and it will run until the
end of FP7.
It requires grant recipients in seven areas to
"deposit peer reviewed research articles or final
manuscripts resulting from their FP7 projects into
an online repository and make their best efforts to
ensure open access to these articles".
Special Clause 39 on Open Access, applies to all
contracts signed after August 20, 2008

3. EC Open access pilot (2)
The seven areas are: 1. Energy; 2. Environment
(including Climate Change); 3. Health;
4. Information and Communication Technologies
(Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics);
5. Research Infrastructures (e-infrastructures);
6.Science in society; 7. Socio-economic sciences and
the humanities
Open access to these publications is to be ensured
within six months after publication in the first five
areas listed; twelve months in the last two areas
listed.

4. EC Open access pilot (3)
The European Commission wants to ensure that the
results of the research it funds under the EU's 7th
Research Framework Programme (FP7) with more
than € 50 billion from 2007 – 2013, are
disseminated as widely and effectively as possible
to guarantee maximum exploitation and impact in
the world of researchers and beyond.
Open access to research articles helps to increase
the impact of the EU's investment in research and
development and to avoid wasting time and
valuable resources on duplicative research.

5. EC Open access pilot (4)
With access to a wider selection of literature,
researchers can build upon this knowledge to
further their own work.
Small and medium sized businesses and
entrepreneurs can also benefit from improved
access to the latest research developments to
speed up commercialisation and innovation.

6. ERC Scientific Council
Guidelines for Open Access
The ERC Scientific Council's Statement on Open
Access of December 2006 stressed the fundamental
importance of peer-review in ensuring the
certification and dissemination of high-quality
scientific research, as well as the importance of
wide access and efficient dissemination of
research results.
In December 2007, the ERC Scientific Council
followed this up with Guidelines for Open Access.
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7. ERC Scientific Council
Guidelines for Open Access (2)
The ERC requires that all peer-reviewed
publications from ERC-funded research projects be
deposited on publication into an appropriate
research repository where available, such as
PubMed Central, ArXiv or an institutional
repository, and subsequently made Open Access
within 6 months of publication.
The ERC considers essential that primary data are
deposited to the relevant databases as soon as
possible, preferably immediately after publication
and in any case not later than 6 months after the
date of publication.7

8. OpenAIRE project: Networking
Building Support Structures for Researchers in
Depositing Research Publications
Website with general information about the EC/ERC
OA Policy, 27 national pages (national research
environment, funder mandates, OA repositories, OA
publishing etc.), FAQs
Helpdesk operational
Community & Outreach
– Outreach to researchers, project coordinators,
institutions / repository managers

9. OpenAIRE: Service Activities
Establishment and Operation of the OpenAIRE e-
Infrastructure
OpenAIRE frontend
– Orphan Repository developed by CERN based on
Invenio
– Deposit workflows, Populating the Information
Space
OpenAIRE backend
– Data model released
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10. Populating the OpenAIRE
Information Space
Ingest of (authoritative) project data
Other relevant information: map of repositories, list
of journals, license information (SHERPA/RoMEO)...
Identifying publications
– Author deposits final peer reviewed manuscript in
 Institutional or disciplinary repository if available
 OpenAIRE Orphan Repository
– Repository is
 OpenAIRE compliant >> automatic import
 not compliant >> author announces/declares to
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11. OpenAIRE Project
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12. Thank you! Questions?
http://www.openaire.eu
Iryna Kuchma
iryna.kuchma[@]eifl.net
EIFL Open Access programme manager
www.eifl.net
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