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OPEN ACCESS in H2020
Movement to reality: Putting the Pieces Together
21-22 May 2014
ANNI HELLMAN
European Commission
DG CONNECT
eInfrastructure

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What are infrastructures?
Transport
infrastructure
Transport
infrastructure
Energy
infrastructure
Energy
infrastructure
Education
infrastructure
e-Infrastructure – integration

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What are Research Infrastructures?
Collider
Telescope -
Observatory
Research
vessel
Microscope - Laboratory
e-Infrastructure – integration

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What are e-Infrastructures?
Networks
• Desktop environments
for Research
communities
Data
Computing (grids,
clouds, HPC)
Software
e-Infrastructure – integration

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What are e-Infrastructures? FUTURE?
Software
Networks,
connectivity
Integration : e-Infrastructure
for all…
Data
Computing (grids,
clouds, HPC) Virtual Research
Environments
e-Infrastructure – integration

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Vision
Jason de Caires Taylor,
underwater statue, Cancun Mexico
http://www.underwatersculpture.com/
The strategic approach

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Approach
Transversal
Cutting across disciplines and sectors
Support tomorrow’s science
Open science, open access, best solutions
Enabling innovation
Developing and testing innovative solutions
Servicing industry and SMEs
Spinning out technologies
The strategic approach

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• BIG DATA
• MORE COMPUTING POWER
• GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
• GLOBAL PARTICIPATION
• OPEN IS BETTER
• WITHIN AND BETWEEN
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES
• BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
The strategic approach

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The strategic approach

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Two Commissioners on open access
• Vice-President Neelie Kroes
• Digital Agenda
Digital single market/Digital
agenda
• Commissioner
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
• Research & Innovation
Horizon 2020
European Research Area (ERA)
& Innovation Union
Open access is important!

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The Commission objective
The Commission wants to optimise the impact of publicly-
funded scientific research
• At European level (FP7 & Horizon 2020)
• At Member State level
One way to get there: open access
Expected benefits:
• Better and more efficient science  e-Science
• Economic growth  Innovation Union
• Broader, faster, more transparent and equal access for the
benefit of researchers, industry and citizens 
Responsible Research and Innovation
… in the European Research Area and beyond
Open access is important!

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Three key documents on open access
(16.07.2012)
• Communication 'A reinforced European Research Area
partnership for excellence and growth'
• Communication 'Towards better access to scientific
information: boosting the benefits of public investments in
research'
• Recommendation on access to and preservation of scientific
information
Open access is important!

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1. The ERA Communication
The ERA is based on the internal market in which researchers,
scientific knowledge and technology circulate freely
Five priority areas:
• More effective national research systems
• Optimal transnational cooperation and competition
• An open labour market for researchers
• Gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research
• Optimal circulation, access to and transfer of scientific
knowledge
Joint statement by stakeholders organisations
Formal commitments and activities on open access by: EARTO,
NordForsk, Science Europe, LERU and EUA
Open access is important!

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2. Communication 'Towards better
access to scientific information'
o Why does better access matter for Europe?
o The Commission's vision
o Where do we stand?
o Access to publication and data, preservation, international context
o What are the barriers to change?
o Transition to OA to publications, the case of data, long-term
preservation
o Action at European level
o What has the Commission done so far, what are the next steps
(Horizon 2020)
Open access is important!

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3. Recommendation on Scientific
information to Member States
Member States to define policies for and implement:
• OA to publications
• OA to research data
• Preservation and re-use of scientific information
• e-Infrastructures
Consistency between H2020 policy and MS policy
Structured co-ordination of MS (National Points of Reference)
at EU-level and reporting
Open access is important!

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From FP7 to H2020: OA to publications
• FP7
• Green open access pilot
in 7 areas of FP7 with
'best effort' stipulation
• Allowed embargoes:
6/12 months
• Gold open access costs
eligible for
reimbursement as part
of the project budget
while the project runs
• Horizon 2020
• Obligation to provide OA,
either through the Green
or Gold way in all areas
• Allowed embargoes:
6/12 months
• Gold open access costs
eligible for
reimbursement as part
of the project budget
while the project runs
• Post grant Gold OA pilot
H2020 and Open Access

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MGA for all: Each beneficiary must ensure OA to all peer-
reviewed scientific publications relating to its results…
• Deposit a machine-readable copy of the published version
or final peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication in
a repository of the researchers choice
• Ensure OA on publication or at the latest within 6/12
months
• Ensure OA to bibliographic metadata that identify the
deposited publication
• Ensure metadata includes the specified identification
fields (similar to OpenAIRE guidelines)
Aim to deposit at the same time the research data needed to
validate the results ("underlying data")
H2020 and Open Access - publications
OA to publications mandate in H2020

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MGA for all: Costs for OA publishing…
• Eligibility of OA publishing costs during the grant (as in FP7)
• Piloting a mechanism for open access publishing after the end of
the grant agreement (call EINFRA-2-2014 – eInfrastructure on
open access)
• Licencing:
• Encouragement to authors to retain their copyright and grant
adequate licences to publishers (e.g. Creative Commons)
OA to publications mandate in H2020
H2020 and Open Access - publications

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Pilot on Open Research Data in H2020
• Areas of the 2014-2015 Work Programme participating in the Open
Research Data Pilot are:
• Future and Emerging Technologies
• Research infrastructures – part e-Infrastructures
• Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Information and
Communication Technologies
• Societal Challenge: Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy – part Smart cities
and communities
• Societal Challenge: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and
Raw materials – (the area of raw materials does not participate)
• Societal Challenge: Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and
reflective Societies
• Science with and for Society
Projects in other areas can participate on a voluntary basis.
H2020 and Open Access – Data pilot

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Types of data concerned:
• Data needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications
("underlying data")
• Other data as specified in the project Data Management Plan (DMP)
• Beneficiaries participating in the Pilot will:
• Deposit this data in a research data repository of their choice
• Take measures to make it possible to access, mine, exploit, reproduce
and disseminate free of charge
• Provide information about tools and instruments at the disposal of the
beneficiaries and necessary for validating the results (where possible,
provide the tools and instruments themselves)
H2020 and Open Access – Data pilot
Pilot on Open Research Data in H2020

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• Projects may opt out totally or partly if:
• The project will not generate / collect any data
• Conflict with obligation to protect results
• Conflict with confidentiality obligations
• Conflict with security obligations
• Conflict with rules on protection of personal data
• The achievement of the action’s main objective would be
jeopardised by making specific parts of the research data
openly accessible (to be explained in data management
policy of the proposal, or DMP deliverable)
H2020 and Open Access – Data pilot
Pilot on Open Research Data in H2020

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Data management in Horizon 2020
All "Research and Innovation actions" as well as "Innovation
actions" include a section on research data management
policy which is evaluated under the criterion 'Impact'.
Data Management Plans (DMPs) mandatory for all projects
participating in the pilot (deliverable within the first six
months)
H2020 and Open Access – Data management

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OA in Horizon 2020: where to look
• Regulation establishing Horizon 2020 (article 18)
• Specific Programme (preamble 1.3)
• Rules for Participation (article 43)
• Work Programme 2014-15 (Introduction 1.5 and relevant areas)
• Model Grant Agreement (articles 6.2.D.3, 29.2 and 29.3)
• Annotated Model Grant Agreement (reference to Guidelines below)
• Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Horizon 2020
• Guidelines on Data Management in Horizon 2020
• Source for all documents: Participant Portal (reference documents)
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html
• www.openaire.eu (NOADs pages, H2020 toolkit)
H2020 and Open Access

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Questions on our calls:
CNECT-RI-CALLS@ec.europa.eu