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Open access publishing in Europe
The state of the Union
Pierre Mounier
EHESS
OpenEdition
OPERAS

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Topic Latin America Europe
Countries 33 28
Languages 5(2) 24
Big 5 0 3
Elsevier (NL), Springer
(DE), T&F (UK)
Number of OA journals
(DOAJ)
2272 4704
Number of researchers
(UNESCO, Eurostat)
300 000 1.88M

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Two methods of presentation
Alphabetical order
• Austria
• Belgium
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Etc.
By types of driving forces :
• Market
• Community
• State
Some examples

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• National infrastructures :
– Repository : HAL
– OA publishing : OpenEdition, MathDoc, Persée
• Network infrastructure : RENATER
• Computing infrastructure : IN2P3
• Network of university presses
• Important private sector totally opposed to
OA

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• Repositories at university level
• Publishing platforms at university level : OJS,
OMP
• IT national infrastructure : CINECA
• OA working group at CRUI (National
Conference of University Rectors)
• Market of small/medium size companies to
provide editorial services to universities

6.
• Repositories at university level
• Strong network of university presses hosted
by university libraries : OA
• Strong market of private publishers medium
to large size with a long family history : De
Gruyter, C. H. Beck, Springer. Progressively
adopting OA
• Federal country : no national platform

7.
• Dominated by big commercial companies
• Network of OA repositories coordinated by a
national infrastructure : JISC
• Boom of “cool kids” New University Presses,
Scholarly-led publishers, start-ups driven by
innovation : OLH, OBP, UCL Press, F1000,
Ubiquity, etc.

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Common features
• National policies :
– Germany : 2016 Open Access in Deutschland Die Strategie
des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung
– Italy : 2013 Disposizioni urgenti per la tutela, la
valorizzazione e il rilancio dei beni e delle attivita' culturali
e del turismo.
– France : 2018 Plan pour la Science Ouverte
• Few mandates yet from funding agencies : “academic
freedom” (FWF in Austria is an exception)
• Almost no control (and sometimes no monitoring) over
APC/BPC fees

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The role of the European Commission
• 2012 : EC recommendation to member states
• 2014 : OA mandatory in Horizon2020 funding
program
• 2015 Moedas’ “vision” : open innovation, open
science, open to the world
• 2016 Amsterdam call for action on Open Science
• 2018 Open Research Europe platform (ORE)
• 2018 “Plan S”
• European Open Science Cloud

10.
EU open access in practice : OpenAIRE

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EU open access in practice : Zenodo

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An emerging issue : funding the “Open
Access infrastructures”
• DOAJ
• DOAB
• Sherpa/Romeo
• Oapen
• SCOSS

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Europe : a (quick) SWOT analysis
Strenght
Diversity
Weakness
Diversity
Opportunity
Adapt to the needs of the scientific
communities and societies
Threat
Be dominated by a global one-size-fits-all
silver bullet “solution”

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OPERAS : the European spirit

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PARTNERS
OPERAS
OPERAS is led by OpenEdition
(France)
Partners36
Countries
Projects2 H2020
Consortium
Core Members
27

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MAIN MISSIONOPERASCLUSTER OF
CONTENTS
journals, books, blogs.
IMPACT
TRUST
PUBLICENGAGEMENT
Label
Label
Label
Label
Label
Label
Label
Integration of
the long tail into
Open Science
To provide a pan-
European infrastructure
for open scholarly
communication
CONSORTIUM
OF PLAYERS
publication platforms
and publishers.
SCALABILITY
OF QUALITY
28

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OPERAS : a distributed publishing
platform

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HIRMEOS: OPERAS method in practice
• Upgrade 5 open access books publishing platforms to 5 added value
services :
– Identification service : DOI, ORCID, Fundref
– Entities recognition service : persons, places, periods
– Certification Service : connection with DOAB
– Open Annotation Service : Hypothes.is
– Metrics : Open Access metrics, alternative metrics

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HIRMEOS.EU

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The Jussieu call : the European road to
”universalization”

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Jussieucall.org

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To join :
Jussieucall.org

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Thank you!
pierre.mounier@openedition.org
@piotrr70
http://openedition.org
http://operas-eu.org