Celina Ramjoué
Head of SectorOpen Access to Scientific Publications and Data
Implementation of open access to research data in Horizon 2020
Brussels, 30 November 2015SwissCore Research & Innovation Seminar 2015
Open Access (OA)OA = Online access at no charge to the user• to peer-reviewed scientific publications• to research data (includes re-use)
Why open access?• To optimise the impact of publicly-funded research
Expected benefits of open access:• Good for science: efficiency, verifiability, transparency• Good for the economy: access and take-up by industry• Good for society: broader, faster, transparent & equal
access for citizens
Framing I: Digital Single Market (DSM)DSM: "Market in which free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured and where individuals and businesses can seamlessly access and exercise online activities."
One of ten Juncker priorities
One of the DSM pillars: focus on maximising growth potential of the digital economy by building a data economy
Themes: Copyright, including text and datamining (TDM), open science, free flow of data, open science cloud
Framing II: Open science• Open science is … the transformation and opening up of
science, research and innovation through Information and
Communication Technologies, with the objective of
making science more efficient, transparent and
interdisciplinary, and of enabling broader societal impact
and innovation.
• Areas: open access, citizen engagement, open e-
infrastructure, research metrics, etc.-infrastructure,
research assessment and metrics, …
Commissioner view"Open science is […] about making sure that science serves innovation and growth.It guarantees open access to publicly-funded research results and the possibility of knowledge sharing […]."
Blog post by Commissioners Oettinger and Moedas (22 June 2015): Open science for a knowledge and data-driven economyhttps://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/oettinger/blog/open-science-knowledge-and-data-driven-economy_en
Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
Günther Oettinger, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
Commissioner Moedas: Three Os
• Open Innovation• Open Science• Open to the world
Open access in Horizon 2020
Open access to publications
OA to publications: from pilot to principleFP7• Pilot in 7 areas with 'best
effort' obligation• Green OA: 6/12 month
embargo periods• Gold OA: costs eligible during
project duration
Horizon 2020• Obligation to provide OA in all
areas• Green OA: 6/12 month embargo
periods• Gold OA: costs eligible during
project duration • Deposit required even if gold OA• Aim to deposit underlying data• FP7 post-grant Open Access
publishing funds pilot www.openaire.eu/postgrantoapilot
• Authors encouraged to retain copyright/grant licences instead
Open Access to Research Data
Pilot on Open Research Data in H2020
Key questions:
• Which thematic areas are covered?
• What data is covered?
• What are the requirements?
• What about data management?
Areas of the 2016-2017 Work Programme participating in the Open Research Data Pilot are:
• Future and Emerging Technologies• Research infrastructures – (new: coverage of the whole area) • Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Information
and Communication Technologies• Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing
and Processing, and Biotechnology: ‘nanosafety’ and ‘modelling’ topics (new)
• Societal Challenge: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy - selected topics as specified in the work programme (new)
Pilot on Open Research Data: Scope(1)
Continued• Societal Challenge: Climate Action, Environment, Resource
Efficiency and Raw materials – except raw materials• Societal Challenge: Europe in a changing world – inclusive,
innovative and reflective Societies• Science with and for Society• Cross-cutting activities - focus areas – part Smart and Sustainable
Cities (moved from Energy WP)
Projects in other areas are encouraged to participate on a voluntary basis
Pilot on Open Research Data: Scope(2)
Projects may opt out of the Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 2020 in a series of cases (submission stage):
• If the project will not generate / collect any data
• Conflict with obligation to protect results
• Conflict with confidentiality obligations
• Conflict with security obligations
• Conflict with rules on protection of personal data
• If the achievement of the action’s main objective would be jeopardised by making specific parts of the research data openly accessible (to be explained in data management plan)
Opting out during project also possible
Being in the Pilot does not mean opening all data
Pilot on Open Research Data: Opt-out
Pilot on Open Research Data: requirementsTypes of data concerned:
• Data needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications ("underlying data")
• Other data as specified in data management plan (=up to projects)
Beneficiaries participating in the Pilot will:
• Deposit this data in a research data repository of their choice
• Take measures to make it possible to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate free of charge
• Provide information about tools and instruments at the disposal of the beneficiaries and necessary for validating the results (where possible, provide the tools and instruments themselves)
Approach: as open as possible, as closed as necessary
Data management in Horizon 2020• Data Management Plans (DMPs) mandatory for all projects
participating in the Pilot, optional for others
• DMPs are NOT part of the proposal evaluation
• To be generated within first 6 months of project, updates as needed
• DMP questions (template):
•What data will be collected / generated?
•What standards will be used / how will metadata be generated?
•What data will be exploited? What data will be shared / opened?
•How will data be curated and preserved?
• DMP: tool to determine what datasets can/cannot be open
Resources
H2020 Guidelines (soon: new versions):Open access: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/oa_pilot/h2020-hi-oa-pilot-guide_en.pdfData management: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/oa_pilot/h2020-hi-oa-data-mgt_en.pdf
ResourcesPublications:
• List of publications repositories: http://www.opendoar.org/
• List of publisher policies: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
• Directory of OA journals: https://doaj.org/
• Zenodo http://zenodo.org/ (OpenAIRE)
Research Data:
• List of research data repositories: http://www.re3data.org/
• B2Share http://eudat.eu/services/b2share (EUDAT)
• Zenodo http://zenodo.org/ (OpenAIRE) – focus on link withpublications, communities
Data Management Plan:
• Digital Curation Centre https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/, http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans. Other institutions developing tools. EC resources are being developed.
Open Access to Research Data
Experiences?
ORD Pilot: take-up in first calls of H2020
• Basis: 3699 Horizon 2020 signed grant agreements
• Calls in core-areas: opt out 34,6% (149/431)
65,4% of projects in the core areas participate in the Pilot
• Other areas: voluntary opt in 12,5% (409/3268)
Limited divergence from 2014 proposal figures but larger dataset used
Note that 100% participation is not feasible or even desirable (e.g. not all projects generate data)
Call title Call Identifier Projects funded
Opt-outs%
Lowest opt-outs percentage Overcoming the crisis: new
ideas, strategies and governance structures for
Europe
H2020-EURO-SOCIETY-2014
18 0%
Growing a Low Carbon, Resource Efficient Economy with a Sustainable Supply of
Raw Materials
H2020-SC5-2014-two-
stage
9 0%
The young generation in an innovative, inclusive and
sustainable Europe
H2020-YOUNG-SOCIETY-2014
8 0%
Highest opt-out percentageEurope as a global actor H2020-INT-
INCO-20144 100%
Reflective societies: cultural heritage and European
identities
H2020-REFLECTIVE-
SOCIETY-2014
3 100%
Call for developing governance for the advancement of
Responsible Research and Innovation
H2020-GARRI-NCP-2014-1
2 100%
Opt-outs: highest and lowest percentage
Opt-ins: highest and lowest percentage
Call title Call Identifier Projects funded
Opt-ins%
Highest opt-ins percentage Earth Observation-2014-LEIT
SPACEH2020-EO-
20147 71.4% (5)
Developing new world-class research infrastructures
H2020-INFRADEV-1-
2015-1
5 40% (2)
Call for Energy-efficient Buildings
H2020-EeB-2014
13 30.8% (4)
Lowest opt-ins percentageCall for proposals for ERC
Consolidator GrantERC-2014-CoG 237 0%
H2020 Named beneficiary call H2020-Adhoc-2014-20
129 0%
Call for proposals for ERC Advanced Grant
ERC-2014-ADG 48 0%
[1] Among calls with 0% opt-ins, those calls with themost projects funded are prioritised in this table.
ORD Pilot: opt-out reasons amongproposals
17.85
35.37
5.32
16.35
7.79
8.71no data generated
IPR protection
confidentiality
privacy
jeopardize main objective
other
ORD Pilot: experiences (1)• Explanation is paramount!
• Misperception that 'open' bias will be evaluated positively
• Confusion: DMP versus data management section at submission stage
• Emphasise flexibility (many opt-out / opt-in mechanisms)
• It helps to re-frame ORD Pilot as "Data Management Pilot"
• Need to state that not everything must be open. In theory, it is possible to be in the ORD Pilot and not open any data.
ORD Pilot: experiences (2)• Stress the fact that researcher has freedom and
responsility via DMP. Excellent research must includeexcellent data management.
• Questions about eligibility of data management costs
• Tools and support needed for data management / DMPs
• Emphasise the importance of feedback for policy the nextFramework Programme: being in the Pilot means co-shaping European policy on opening up research data(Midterm review)
• Underline overall aim: kick-starting a virtous circle andchange of culture
Celina Ramjoué
Head of SectorOpen Access to Scientific Publications and Data
Questions?
Brussels, 30 November 2015SwissCore Research & Innovation Seminar 2015
