NRF Open Access Statement Implications for grantees’ research output submissions and dissemination In pursuit of OPENNESS: Scholarly Communication and Open Access (OA) issues at UNIZULU 17 March 2017

Definition: Open Science Open Science represents a new approach to the scientific process based on cooperative work and new ways of diffusing knowledge by using digital technologies and new collaborative tools (European Commission, 2016b:33). The OECD defines Open Science as: “to make the primary outputs of publicly funded research results – publications and the research data – publicly accessible in digital format with no or minimal restriction” (OECD, 2015:7)

Global Research Council: Open Access Principles Return on investments: Research councils encourage open access to all results from publicly funded research which originated from their funding Responsibility of Research Councils: to raise their grantees’ awareness and educate (especially young) researchers regarding the importance, the benefits, and the various approaches towards open access Research Funders: Provide support for their grantees, encourage and enable them in making their works openly accessible with suitable means, e.g. open access policies, addressing copyright, or dedicated open access funding, enabling technology and infrastructure

NRF OA Mandate - Open Access Policies: Global Outlook Link: Statement on Open Access to Research Publications from the National Research Foundation (NRF)-Funded Research

A Closed Research Model Source: https://creativecommons.org

An Open Research Model

South Africa’s Global Knowledge Contribution South Africa’s research output is less than 1% of the global research output Most of this research output is publicly funded Before open access publishing model most SA’s publicly funded research was locked in commercial databases

Open access to publications research data supporting publications NRF OA Access Mandate: 2015 Open access to publications research data supporting publications Be deposited in a public access compliant repository designated by the NRF Be managed to ensure long-term preservation Be available for download, reading and analysis free of charge not later than 12 months after initial publication, and Be reported in the Annual Progress Report Further information check at http://ir.nrf.ac.za/handle/10907/103

Conditions of Grants extract… Publications and Datasets

ORCID Registration for NRF Grantees: to link research outputs

Funded Publications Dissemination All NRF Funded grantees (students and researchers) are required to disseminate their research outputs either through Green or Gold Open Access Author's accepted manuscript of a journal article or published conference paper needs to be deposited into a repository with 12months of publishing OA Journal articles i.e. published through ASSAf’s SciELO; This also includes book chapters, and books etc.

NRF OA Statement Requirements: Research Outputs Dissemination Open Access (journals, conference proceedings & books/book chapters) Publisher PDFs/ HTMLversion free online (Internet) Authors’ accepted Manuscripts, if published version is restricted Pre-prints/Post-prints deposited in an OA institutional repository Dataset free online (open format, easily readable by computers) – if embargoed metadata should be published and made available in an OA repository Publicly funded data

Research Output Archiving & Dissemination - DOIs PDFs Journal articles, Conference proceedings, Books/book chapters (OA e-publications) Applicable formats e-Dataset supporting a publication Electronic Theses & Dissertations Final peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts submitted to non-OA journals. These should be linked to the published version via URL when archived in repositories OA Publishers, OA Journals, OJS systems, i.e. SciELO NRF’s SADA repository Institutional repository

Reporting Research Outputs: Annual Progress Report Publications metadata should include DOIs (Gold OA articles) provided on publisher databases/ Green OA articles archived on OA repositories handles are provided Theses and Dissertations metadata handles are provided on OA repositories Datasets metadata, DOIs are provided by publishers or by DataCite (NRF) and handles are also available from OA Repositories (Institutional or Subject based)

Streamlining the Publication and Research Data Lifecycle Source> https://opencitations.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/the-plate-tectonics-of-research-data-publication/

Data Management Plan (DMP) Most research funders and journal publishers require data data management plans (DMP) for data sharing and re-use purposes NRF will issue a DMP template in order to help researchers to create data management plans fitting its requirements and international data publishing guidelines The DMP should describe how the project will conform to the NRF’s OA Mandate on dissemination and sharing of publicly funded research results

Digital Object Identifiers Data Publication and Citation NRF is a national DOI registry for datasets publishing NRF grantees will be encouraged to register their datasets in order to get DOIs Datasets can be curated/archived in the hosting institutional repository/ open access registered repository or NRF’s SADA repository Datasets that are curated according to international standards and licensed through a DataCite usually get cited and get re-used by other researchers, or in collaboration with the owner, CC license is important

Registered SA Open Access Repositories South Africa has 48 registered repositories on ROAR NRF’s South African Data Archive (SADA) registered as a dataset repository on DataCite

NRF Funded ETDs http://ir.nrf.ac.za/handle/10907/237

Harvesting form HEIs’ Repositories Deposit Institutionally, Harvest Centrally

Alternative Metrics & Citations: OA Repositories There is an interesting relationship between altmetrics and open access. One could even refer to altmetrics as open metrics. This is firstly due to the fact that altmetrics data uses open sources. 

OA Repository Archiving: Alternative Metrics & Citations

References European Commission (2016b). Open innovation, Open Science, open to the world. A vision for Europe. Brussels: European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. DOI: 10.2777/061652. Available at: http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/open-innovation-open-science-open-to-the-world-pbKI0416263/ Exploring the Relationship Between Open Science Policies and Research Practice/Levin et.al. DOI: 10.1177/0270467616668760 Global Research Council (2013) Action Plan towards Open Access to Publications endorsed during the 2nd Annual Global Meeting, 27 – 29 May 2013, Berlin / Germany. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september10/ternier/09ternier.print.htmlHow Do Scientists Define Openness? https://www.coar-repositories.org/files/Roadmap_final_formatted_20150203.pdf https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/content/what-open-science-introduction OECD (2015). Making Open Science a Reality. (OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers, 25). Paris: OECD Publishing. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5jrs2f963zs1-en Registry of Open Access Repositories, http://roar.eprints.org/

Thank you Lazarus Matizirofa Email: lazarus.matizirofa@nrf.ac.za