Enabling Re-Use and Sustainability: The role of information infrastructure funders for opening science, "Angela Holzer", DFG – German Research Foundation/Knowledge Exchange
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The document discusses the challenges of sustainability and re-use in the open science landscape, highlighting the need for innovative use of ICT to support research and education. It outlines various activities and phases aimed at establishing sustainable open access (OA) services, addressing issues like funding, business models, and operational scalability. Additionally, it calls for improved interoperability, clear licensing, and reliable metrics for OA publications and research data to foster an effective and sustainable ecosystem.
Enabling Re-Use and Sustainability: The role of information infrastructure funders for opening science, "Angela Holzer", DFG – German Research Foundation/Knowledge Exchange
- 1. Sustainability and re-use as challenges for a future open science landscape
- 2. 2 German Research Foundation (DFG) Joint Information Systems Committee (United Kingdom) Denmark’s Electronic Research Library SURF (Netherlands) CSC – IT Center for Science (Finland) Shared aim: innovative use of ICT to support Research and Education Who is Knowledge Exchange?
- 3. 3 Our vision since 2005 “To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet” Edinburgh October 2012
- 4. 4 Activities relating to OA/OS in the years 2005-2014 Petition to EU for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results Three national studies comparing costs and benefits of Open Access Briefing papers on Open Access and Copyright Metrics – sharing / connecting Usage Statistics; metrics for research data Author Identifiers - a summit with global key players Authority Files report Studies on how to make OA services sustainable
- 5. Sustainability of open access infrastructures • Sustainability of Open Access Services Reports – Phase 1 and 2: Scoping the challenge and consulting the stakeholders – Phase 3: The Collective Provision of Open Access Resources • Sustainability of Open Access Services Workshops − International Service Providers (2013) − Sustainable Business models for Open Access Services (2014) http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=676 5
- 6. Issues for sustainable operation of OA services • Services that form an OA ecology (e.g. repository support, journal listings, journal platforms, repository platforms, repositories, searching services, identifier services) are often founded and funded on a project basis. • Business intelligence and models required for operation but not only under market conditions. Also viable organisational models needed (short-term staff, expertise). • Funders not currently able to sustain on a long-term-basis; vulnerability of services. Scalability of membership models? Services used, but not supported internationally. • Analysis of interdependence necessary. “Birds-eve-view “on ecology and coordination (accountability, governance, shared infrastructure). • Evolving and dynamic landscape and complex wider service ecology. 6
- 7. Solutions? • Individual and adequate business models needed; best practices to drive down costs can help. • Possibly supernational umbrella organisation to bundle OA infrastructure services and to manage sustainability. • Business intelligence, skills and expertise form part of sustainability planning already required at the outset; Sustainability Index developed to help assess this. Also professional development courses for service providers. • Should research funders dedicate 0.5% of budget to OA services? 7
- 8. Re-use • Authority files and interoperability − Technical interoperability for use, but also for sustainability of services − Coherent linkage of differenty types of reasearch material • Licensing – Clear licensing of research output specifying re-use conditions – Widest possible re-use • Metrics – Reliable statistics (not from commercial vendors!) for OA publication usage and research data 8