1. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 1 16/07/08 SELL 2009 France Country Report Grégory Colcanap & Catherine Etienne Consortium Couperin

2. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 2 Agenda Brief presentation of the consortium 2009 : a year of change in France ? – May 2008 : a governmental report on scientific information in France – March 2008 : creation of the Council of the book and its working groups – February 2009 : reorganization of the ministry of research and higher education Tomorrow : a new landscape, recombining actors ?

3. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 3 Couperin brief presentation A non profitable organization. Created in 1999 by 4 universities, ten years later 211 members (all french universities, high schools, most of the research institutes) Activity (2007) 114 resources negotiated 1968 contracts signed 164 members had at least one contract 14 grouping orders (10 Abes, 3 universities, 1 CNRS)

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5. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 5 Higher education : 1 326 000 students, 62 000 researchers CNRS :12 000 researchers Others research institutes : ? researchers Budget for scientific information in 2007 Higher education : 56 M€ CNRS : 15 M€ Others research institutes : ?

6. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 6 The Salençon's report This report describes the mechanisms of purchase scientific information in France. He gives a few recommandations : a legal obligation to publish in an open archive the results of a public research a clear and coherent policy for e-journals preservation same VAT for paper and electronic publications

7. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 7 The Salençon's report a charter between editors and users including those points : open access, institutionnal repositories, transfort of title from an editor to another, preservation... to use professional negociators and centralize this activity establish a national licenses program to seek a coherence in the field a scientific information : structure of the ministry, role of the actors (Couperin, Abes, Inist), national projects of digitalization and edition (Persée, Cairn) and portals in humanities (HAL SHS, Adonis) create a digital scientific library for all the french research

8. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 8 The Council of the book Created on March 2008 to answer one of the proposals of the report “Livre 2010”. The council of the book is a kind of “Parliament of the book”, created to initiate a public debate. It is an interprofessional and interdepartmental structure attached to the ministry of Culture and charged with discussing great transverse subjects. Five working groups have been created : - price of books - e-books - french books in foreign countries - studies on books and reading - national plan for digital librairies

9. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 9 The Council of the book The working group in charge of the plan to digital librairies is divided in 4 groups : Acquisitions Evaluation, usages and statistics Preservation and perpetual access Digitalization plans for librairies At the end of 2009, the president (Bruno racine : also president of the BNF) will give his report and conclusions.

10. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 10 The Council of the book Couperin take part in 2 groups : acquisitions and evaluation. Groups are still working but a few points are established : Necessity of a national licensing program to build the french digital scientific library. Couperin identified two main types of resources and works to list them : - backfiles of e-journals for the majors editors - highly specialized ressources for researcher scattered in all the country

11. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 11 National license Couperin's approach is based on the german model. The German Research Agency gives funds to 9 major academic and public librairies, to buy resources for all the country.

12. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 12 2007 a new law for universities : autonomy and responsibility, 2009 a new statut for teachers : more than three months of strike in the french universities, 2009 a new organization of the ministry with a unified structure for scientific information

13. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 13 Organize a national policy The phases : To select resources To negotiate To pay (central funding) To catalog (national catalog) Authentication (shibboleth and the research identity federation) Preservation and perpetual access, Usage statistics To develop Open Archives

14. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 14 Organize a national policy Organize cooperation between actors : a big challenge Couperin CNRS-INIST (National Research Center) INSERM (Research center for medicine) Abes (Bibliographic National Agency) Cines (Computer National Center) BNF (French National Library) ANR ? (National Research Agency)

15. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 15 An advice Two steps are importants for a promote a high level of research : First time : to build a system of quality in all the universities by reinforcing collaboration, mutualisation and cooperation Second time : to promote excellence by the competition Never do the second before the first (from Jean-Claude Guédon, canadian researcher)

16. SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 16 2009 Important projects A website devoted to promote open archives and a two days meeting http://www.couperin.org/archivesouvertes/ Couperin shared ERMS project A new website for the consortium http://www.couperin.org/