Presented at OpenAIRE Open Peer Review Workshop, Goettingen, 7th June 2016

1. OpenAIRE
eInfrastructure for Open Science
Tony Ross-Hellauer
State and University Library,
University of Göttingen

2. 2
OpenAIRE
Dec. 2009 – Nov. 2012
OpenAIREplus
Dec. 2011 – Dec. 2014
OpenAIRE2020
Jan. 2015 – Jun. 2018
Now in our third project phase …

3. EC Open Access Mandate
Progression
FP7 (2008)
• 20% programme areas
• Deposit in Repositories
• APC payments during project
• ERC OA Guidelines
Horizon 2020 (2015)
• 100% programme areas
• Deposit in Repositories
• APCs during and after project
• Open Data Pilot (100% from 2017)
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4. An infrastructure for
Open Scholarship
Starting from the basics
OpenAIRE2020 - Overview 4
OA awareness
and policies for
all research
results
Interoperability
and
Services
Support & training

5. 5
Human
Network
50 Partners from every EU country, and beyond
Data centres, universities, libraries, repositories
Digital
Network
… fosters the social and technical links
that enable Open Science in Europe and beyond.

6. Human Infrastructure
• Local support for Europe’s diverse research landscape
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Human support network
• 33 expert nodes all over
Europe to helping with:
• OA training and support
• (OA) policy alignment
• Technical assistance
• Outreach to international
community via COAR

7. 7
Literature
Repositories
OA Journals
Funding Info
Validation
Cleaning
De-duplicating
Inferring
Linking
Organiz
-ations
Projects
AuthorsDatasets
Publicat
ions
Data
Providers
…
Monitoring
Reporting
Evaluation
Impact
Classification
Clustering
Analysis
CRIS
systems
A mini EU-CRIS system
Data
Repositories
Metadata
Full text
Usage data
Discovery
Crowdsourcing
Zenodo
APIs
Data Providers OpenAIRE Platform Services

8. Result: Integrated Scientific Information
System
• 13.9 million unique
publications
• 7 million authors
• 690+ data providers
• 202,000 publications linked
to projects from 5 funders
• 5,500 datasets linked to
publications
• 35,000 organizations
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9. • Support the Universal OA mandate for all projects
• Run post-grant funding pilot for OA publications
• Support the Open Data Pilot
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+ Research and development into new trends in
scholarly communication
• Linked Open Data
• Data Citation
• Literature-Data Integration
• Legal issues in Open Data
• Metrics for Open Access
• Open Peer Review
New in
OpenAIRE2020 …

10. From Open Access to
Open Science
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Aim: To open up scientific processes and
products from all levels to everyone …
• Open Access (publications, data,
software, educational resources)
• Open Methodology (open notebooks,
study preregistration)
• Citizen Science
• Open Evaluation / Open Peer Review

11. Why Open Peer Review?
• Time
• Accountability
• Bias
• Incentive
• Wasted effort
Picture credit: AJ Cann, CC BY-SA 2.0
Problems with traditional peer review ...

12. Open Peer Review, broadly defined …
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Traditionally, peer review is ...
• Anonymous: reviewers unknown to authors, or both authors
and reviewers unknown to each other
• Selective: reviewers selected by editors
• Opaque: neither the process nor the reviews are made public
Openness in peer review can refer to ...
• Absence of anonymity (open identity)
• Self-selecting reviewers (open participation)
• Public processes and reviews (open access)

13. Encouraging
experimentation …
• Use OpenAIRE infrastructure to seed
experimentation
• Stakeholder survey (to come)
• Call for Tenders in 2015
• Small grants
• Investigate how OPR might integrate with
OpenAIRE
• Provide case studies for wider evaluation
• Encourage technological experimentation
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14. • Francophone environmental
sciences journal
• Using the blog platform
hypotheses.org for OPR
• Using hypothes.is for open
commentary
• Treating OPR as a social rather than
a technological problem
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15. • Incentivizing post-publication
peer reviews
• Capturing reviews from
“journal clubs”
• Platform for reviews of Zenodo
content
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16. Open Peer Review
Module for repositories
• OPR plug-in for (DSpace) repositories to convert them into
functional evaluation platforms
• Includes published reviews, disclosed identities, reviewer
reputation system
• Complete code, with full documentation, available on Github
under an open license:
• https://github.com/arvoConsultores/Open-Peer-Review-Module
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17. Future directions:
A call for common standards
• Uncouple peer review from “publishing”
• Repositories are more than pre-/post-print servers!
• Federate OPR services
• We need to agree:
• What OPR is (standardization of vocabulary)
• How we measure its effectiveness (standardization of
experimentation)
• How we describe it for machines (standardization of metadata)
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18. www.openaire.eu
@openaire_eu
facebook.com/groups/openaire
linkedin.com/groups/OpenAIRE-
3893548
Thank you!
ross-hellauer@sub.uni-goettingen.de
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