Open access and preservation: how can knowledge sharing

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Open access and preservation how can knowledge
sharing be improved in ERA? (session 1.5)
Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK
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The background

• The Web allows faster, wider, deeper
  dissemination of research outputs
• Affordability and accessibility problems are thus
  resolvable
• Industry, which innovates upon basic research,
  has poor access to that research in Europe
• The Commission, as a research funder, has so far
  mandated that Open Access be provided for 20 of
  FP7-funded outputs

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Creation and sharing of knowledge

• Looking forward to a new Framework Programme
• Scientific outputs are changing (datasets)
• Scientific practices are changing (e-science)
• Semantic technologies will play an increasingly
  important role in scientific research (data- and
  text-mining)
• Open Access is an enabling mechanism for all
  these things

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The exploitation of research results

• Three major challenges
• To provide research outputs in an openly
  accessible way that permits easy re-use
• To create a European research communication
  ecosystem where digital publications, data,
  software and the tools to manipulate these things
  work together seamlessly
• To provide discover, search and retrieve systems
  that deliver scientific outputs to all
  stakeholders, including innovative industries

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Recommendations Open Access for the long term

• Expand the Commissions current policy to cover
  100 of FP-funded work (publications)
• Require a formal data management plan for every
  project
• Fund data management (10-15 of each project
  cost)
• Encourage and enable XML as the common standard
• Provide a legal regime that is appropriate for
  academic research needs, enables re-use and
  encourages sharing
• Pilot an e-journal registration service to serve
  long term preservation practices
• Establish suitable financial mechanisms to enable
  Open Access publication

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Recommendations research communication ecosystem

• Interoperability encourage institutions to adopt
  common, effective policies for OA, and standards
  that allow sharing and re-use (e.g. CERIF)
• Coordinate national policies and practices to
  make ERA the world leader in research sharing
  culture
• Coordinate development of facilities in Member
  States to store and preserve research outputs
• Support and reward researchers who participate in
  knowledge sharing (new systems of assessment,
  recognition and reward)

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Recommendations delivery of research outputs to
stakeholders

• In particular, provide assistance to innovating
  SMEs to enable them to discover, find and obtain
  research material that they need to create future
  wealth
• Remember that stakeholders are the research
  community, the public, our European neighbours
  and the world at large