Supporting Open Access Implementation via CRIS/repository interoperability Pablo de Castro euroCRIS Board member Open Access Project Officer at LIBER

The EC/OpenAIRE Gold Open Access Pilot (OpenAIRE2020 WP5)

The Gold OA Pilot: Some Basic Facts (I) EUR 4m funding provided by the EC to support Open Access publications from post-grant FP7 projects finished no longer than 2 years ago. Maximum of three publications per project to be funded (research articles, monographs, book chapters, contributions to conference proceedings) which meet the requirements described in the Pilot policy guidelines (to be shortly released). No publications in hybrid journals will be funded, only in fully Open Access titles. A €2,000 funding cap is in place. Pilot (soft) launched beginning of May A central funding request system available at the OpenAIRE portal, for collecting requests from eligible FP7 projects, which researchers will be able to deliver either directly or via their institution.

The Gold OA Pilot: Some Basic Facts (II) A pool of European institutions covering all OpenAIRE regions will work with LIBER during the Pilot kick-off stage in order to align their strategies for reaching out to eligible FP7 project researchers and their OA publishing workflows (including APC management). The results of the work carried out by these institutions will be presented and discussed at the LIBER 2015 Annual Conference in London, where a Gold OA Pilot workshop will be held, There will be specific Gold OA Pilot outreach activities for the OpenAIRE NOADs in order to benefit from their collaboration for the Pilot dissemination and implementation More information on the Pilot, its planned workflows and its policy guidelines to be released soon. For collecting up-to-date news, please register with the Gold OA Pilot Newsletter at

The Gold OA Pilot: Central Funding Request System

The Gold vs Green OA Conflict Can Be Avoided

System interoperability (beyond CRIS/IR): the key concept Publications Full Text Repository Open Access Linked Activities University of St Andrews CRIS (Pure) Fed Out REF, RCUK SFC, HESA HEI – Strategic Planning, Benchmarking Public, Media Recognition / Impact Industry / SME’s Interface Collaborations Research Pools Pulled In Staff Records [HR] Student Records [Registry] University Structure [HR] Projects, Grants, KT [Finance] Manual Input Entered WoS, arXiv, PubMed, Scopus… Harvested Bibtex, Refman Uploaded Award / recognition Dissemination / Engagement Research data sets (multiple locations and formats) Impact Indicators Measures Case Studies

COAR Repository Observatory release (Oct'14): "7 things you should know about CRISs, IRs and their interoperability"

Specific areas where CRIS/IR interoperability may very usefully be applied

PASTEUR4OA: Aligning European Open Access Policies

PASTEUR4OA Knowledge Net

PASTEUR4OA National Case Studies

PASTEUR4OA European-Wide Case Study

“PASTEUR4OA European-Wide Case Study

Some statistics about national repository networks: not just about IR numbers

CRIS/IR interoperability at national level a potential game-changer for OA implementation

CRIS/IR interoperability at national level the Norwegian way

What if Open Access to full-text publications could be directly offered from the National CRIS where the repository network is not sufficiently strong?... the same interoperability concept could be applied to research data?

CRIS/IR interoperability at national level the Czech way

Linking the Full-Text Version from the National CRIS

Updated OpenAIRE Figures

Take-home message An effective communication and collaboration need to take place between the Open Access (OA) and the Research Information Mgt (RIM) communities in order to explore the synergies between them Best practices are already happening that can be learnt from

Thanks! Pablo de Castro euroCRIS Board member Open Access Project Officer at LIBER