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Enabling Open Scholarship Open Access to research Alma Swan Convenor, Enabling Open Scholarship Director, SPARC Europe Director, Key Perspectives Ltd Open Forum Europe, Brussels, 25 September 2012

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Enabling Open Scholarship Open Access to research Freely available research literature at the time of publication Few preferably no restrictions on re-use of the text and the data within it supporting it

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Enabling Open Scholarship Beneficiaries Academic researchers: access to research articles is a major problem Education community General public Industry and commerce (innovative SMEs): 80% have access problems Industry and commerce (not particularly innovative companies, too)

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Enabling Open Scholarship EU CIS studies

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Enabling Open Scholarship What does this need? Research and technical infrastructure to support knowledge circulation Culture change Policy support Horizon 2020

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Enabling Open Scholarship Thank you for listening a.swan@talk.com sparceurope@arl.org