1.
Europe’s Transition to Open Science
Susan Reilly
Executive Director, LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries
WLIC 2016, Columbus, USA
@skreilly

2.
Overview
Origins of the Open Science Agenda in Europe
H2020 Open Data Pilot
Member states transitioning towards Open Science
Ifs, ands, or buts?

3.
Open Access
2020
The Digital Single
Market: Open Science
in Europe
European Parliament
Copyright
Reform
Member States
European Commission
H2020 Open
Data Pilot
Open Science
Cloud
Open Science
Policy Platform
FAIR
data

4.
Open Science Definition
“The practice of science in a way that others
can collaborate and contribute,
where research data, lab notes and other
research processes are freely available,
with terms that allow reuse, redistribution
and reproduction of the research, it’s
underlying data and methods”
https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/foster-taxonomy/open-science-definition

5.
Science in Transition: from Science 2.0
to Open Science
 EU consultation on Science 2.0 (July-
September 2014)
 498 responses and 27 position statements
 43% of respondents chose “Open Science”
as their preferred term out of 6 terms

6.
Drivers for Open Science

7.
Areas for Policy Intervention
 Open Access & Copyright
 Citizen Science
 Researchers’ Careers
 Peer Review & Research Evaluation
 New Metrics
 Other: Funding, Skills, Infrastructure

8.
EU Horizon 2020 Mandates
 Open Access Mandatory (2015)
 Open Data Pilot (7 funding areas, 2015)
 Open Data pilot extended to all funding
areas from 2017

9.
H2020 Open Data Pilot
 Opt out at any stage (1/3 opted out so far)
 All research data, including metadata, needed
to validate the results in a peer-reviewed
publication
 Other curated or raw data, and its associated
metadata, specified in the DMP even if it did
not result in a publication;
 Documentation, software, hardware or tools
required to enable reuse of the data
 DMP obilgatory

10.
http://knowledgebase.e-irg.eu/documents/243153/246094/E-infrastructures+-+making+Europe+the+best+place+for+research+and+innovation.pdf

11.
The European Open Science Cloud
 A virtual environment to store and
process large volumes of information
http://libereurope.eu/blog/2015/11/04/an-open-and-community-driven-open-science-cloud

12.
European Member States
Commitment
 All member states to transition towards Open
Science (council conclusion May 2016)
 Open access the default by 2020
 Research data from publically funded projects
a public good
 Data management standard scientific practice
 DMPs obilgatory
 Follow FAIR principles

13.
Libraries enabling Open Science
“We believe that the move towards openness will
lead to increased transparency, better quality
research, a higher level of citizen engagement,
and will accelerate the pace of scientific discovery
through the facilitation of data-driven innovation.”
http://libereurope.eu/wp-
content/uploads/2014/09/LIBER_Statement-on-
open-science-final.pdf

14.
Mobilising our Libraries: RDM

15.
Regional differences in consultative RDS
availability

16.
Regional differences in technical RDS
availability

17.
LEARN: Roadmapping RDM
 Issues
 Policies
 Costs
 Infrastructure
 Skills
 Advocacy and engagement
 Roadmapping RDM in institutions
 Self assessment
 Dialogue
 RDM Templates
http://learn-rdm.eu/

18.
Elsevier TDM Policy
• Access through API only
• Text only- no images, tables
• Research must register details
• Click-through licence
• Terms can change any time
• Reproducibility of results

19.
1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WAS NOT
DESIGNED TO REGULATE THE FREE
FLOW OF FACTS, DATA AND IDEAS,
BUT HAS AS A KEY OBJECTIVE THE
PROMOTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY

20.
Ifs, Ands, or Buts
 Publications
 Research data
 Data Infrastructure
 Tools & software
?Data management plans should be open
?Copyright flexible enough to adapt to
capabilities of digital technology
?Access to data about publically funded
research

21.
Open Science is Global
Knowledge as a public good
Open data by default
Access via publically owned infrastructure
Access to digital technologies
Data literacy
Closing the citizen science gap
Discoverability (metadata)

22.
Thank You!
Any questions?
@skreilly
www.libereurope.eu