Meltsas, Marika

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Funder mandates and OA realitiesMarika MeltsasOpen Access Week,  2013Estonian Research Council• Established March 1th, 2012, to create one single researchfunding and research policy implementing institution• Established on the basis of Estonian Science Foundation and part of  Archimedes Foundation (Research Cooperation Centre)• Estonian Research Council is a founding member of ScienceEurope – assembly of European research funding and researchperforming organisations• Estonian Research Council participates in Science Europe OpenAccess Working GroupEstonian Research Information System ETIS • A state register (R&D related institutions, persons, financing and evaluation, output)• A gateway to Estonian research landscape• An information channel and a tool for researchers and R&D institutions• A grant application and processing system• A research management tool• A repository of documents, contracts, data and publicationsResearch funding• Institutional research funding is support allocated for financing high level research activities of a R&D institution. 75 applications were submitted for the first IRF call for applications in 2012 and 31 of these received funding . • Personal research funding support to singleresearchers or small groups (up to 3 researchers). 194 applications were submitted in the first PRF call for applications. 42 projects funded (26 exploratory research and 16 start-up research projects)Regulation - Institutional research funding• § 10. Publication of results of the research theme• (1) The publications that result from the implementation of the research theme shall be freely available to the public in ETIS, unless set forth otherwise in the conditions for publication, or protection of copyright and intellectual property rights.• (2) If a publisher establishes temporal access restrictions on publications that on the basis of subsection 1 of this section are available to the public, the publications that result from the implementation of the research theme shall be made freely available to the public in ETIS immediately after the restriction ends, unless set forth otherwise in the publisher’s conditions.• (3) Upon publishing the results of implementing a research theme, the publication shall note which research funding was used to finance the implementation of the research theme.Regulation - Personal Research Funding• 22. Publication of results of research project• 22.1. Consolidated texts of publications drawn up as a result of the implementation of a research project are made freely available to the public via ETIS by the host institution, unless the conditions of publication, copyright or intellectual property protection state otherwise.• 22.2. If a research publishing house temporarily restricts access to the public publications on the basis of Section 21.1, the consolidated texts of the publications drawn up as a result of the implementation of the research project will be made freely available via the ETIS by the host institution after the expiry of the restriction.• 22.3. Upon publication of the results of implementation of a research project, it is indicated which funds of the grant the implementation of the research project has been financed.ETIS as repositoryETIS and OA dynamics200878 000 publications12 000 with fulltext5 000 openly available - 6,4%2010100 000 publications23 470 with fulltext150000200000250000Open9 800 openly available - 9,8%2012134 142 publications33 034 with fulltext16 414 openly available -12,2%2013152 52340297 with fulltext20656 openly available -13,5%0500001000002008 2010 2012 2013FulltextPublicationsETIS and open accessPublished in 2011 :• 11 285 bibliographic records• 4841  with fulltext• 2698 openly accessible – 24%Articles in international journals 2011-2012:6458 bibliographic records3959 with fulltext – 61%1907 openly accessible in ETIS – 30%Articles in Gold OA journals2011-2012• 6458 articles in international peer-reviewedjournals• 1074 belong to DOAJ OA journals• 332 belong to journals that charge APC-sProportion of OA papers per country, 2008-2011Julie Caruso, Aurore Nicol & Eric Archambault Open Access Strategies in the European Research Area. Science-Metrix Inc., 2013Science Europe• Association of major public research organisations in Europe;• 53 member organisations from 27 countries; • Research funding and research performing organisations• SE Working group on Open Access• Principles on the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications (April, 2014)SCIENCE EUROPE - A survey among the European Research Funding and Research Performing Organizations (2012)Both RoadsDenmarkHungaryIrelandFinlandGreen RoadBelgiumFranceNorwaySwitzerlandSpainUK * (e.g. Finch report)Germany *Austria *The Netherlands *Sweden ** Both Green and Gold but with emphasis on GoldGold RoadCzech RepublicOther policiesItaly Luxembourg PolandSlovakia SloveniaPortugal, IcelandSE Principles on the transition toOpen Access to Research Publications• Publication and dissemination of results are anintegral part of the research process. Theallocation of resources within the research system must take this into account• The move towards OA means replacing thepresent subscription system with other publication models whilst redirecting and reorganizing the current resources accordingly.• SE Member Organisations will continue to support any valid approaches to achieve Open Access, including those commonly referred to SE Principles on the transition toOpen Access to Research Publicationsas the ‘green’ and ‘gold’ routes;• recognise repositories and related facilities askey strategic research infrastructure which should comply with high quality standards• SE Member Organisations stress that the hybrid model, as currently defined and implemented by publishers, is not a working SE Principles on the transition toOpen Access to Research Publicationsand viable pathway to OA. • Any model supported by Science Europe must prevent ‘double dipping’ and increase cost transparencyGold route from Estonian perspective• Reallocation of resources for supporting "gold" route isnot feasible unless the resources are tied tosubscription of major research information databasesand journal packages of leading researchpublishers. The cancellation of the subscriptionsshould take place in a coordinated way on global levelto enforce the publishers to change the business model• To avoid the shift from accessibility problem toaffordabilty to publish problem a fair business model tocover publishing costs should be put in place.Challenges today• Predatory Open-Access Publishers (Beall’s list ofover 300 publishers)• No overview of publication costs today• Commercial publishers have found newopportunities to make profits on scholarlycommunication• Diversity and lack of clarity of publishers’ policieson self-archiving, researchers need moreinformation and assistancePreparing for the future• Dynamic growth of OA Gold business model• A need for central coordinated way to handleAPC-s?• Central funding or grant money?• What services are paid for?• What are the quality criteria?• Allocation of costs?• Who takes responsibity?

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