The document discusses open access to research publications and data in Horizon 2020, the European Union's research and innovation program from 2014-2020. Some key points: - Horizon 2020 promotes both green open access self-archiving and gold open access publishing with costs covered by the publisher. It also encourages depositing underlying research data. - A pilot project will test and monitor experiences with open access to research data across different disciplines to understand barriers. - Guidelines provide information on open access requirements for publications and data management plans. Compliance will be a condition for funding in certain areas and disciplines. - Issues around responsibilities, global collaboration, infrastructure, and the health sector are discussed in the context of open access and

1. OA IN HORIZON 2020
and the health sector
Paola De Castro
Direttore del Settore Attività Editoriali,
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
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2. Main points
 Responsibilities in sharing information and data
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 The EC and Horizon 2020
 Some considerations
from the health sector
• E-research,
E-science
• Global
collaboration
• Next generation
infrastructure
TRANPARENCY
INTEGRITY
INNOVATION
SHARING
PARTICIPATION

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Information dissemination including both
publication and data is strictly associated with
research activity in the process of creating knowledge on
the basis of existing knowledge.
RESPONSIBILITY
Researchers and health operators must assume such
responsibility
as part of their commitment (social implication)
Open access to research information and data is therefore
a moral imperative and is recognised as such by
many research performing and funding institutions

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Global health has no borders
Access to health information
is critically important for all human beings,
it often makes the difference between like and death,
and as such is an important component
of human rights

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Shocking data on child mortality
to reflect on the role of health ingormation
Each year, around 9 million children
die from preventable and treatable illnesses
Health knowledge can often mean
the difference between life and death
The handbook produced by UNICEF, WHO,
UNESCO provides vital messages and
information for mothers, fathers, other family
members and caregivers and communities
Example

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IMPACT OF INFORMATION
IN PUBLIC HEALTH
 Scientists (progress of science)
 Policy makers (regulations, fundings)
 General public (behavioural change)
Social value of knowledge,
Scientific communicatin as a civil commitment
Scientists, in their role of knowledge gatekeepers, should
play an active role in public discussions on science
Trust in scientists role • Spread knowledge
• Face challanges

7. HEALTH, INFORMATION, HUMAN RIGHTS
Universal Declaration
on Human rights, 1948, Article 25.
Everyone has the right to a standard of
living adequate for the health and
well-being of himself and of his family
Definition of Health
World Health Organization, 1948
Health is a state of complete physical,
mental and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Access to information
Is an essential component of human rights
Today people still die for lack of information
Open Access= equality in health

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Right of
information
According to the
International Human Rights
Law, governments have the
legal obligation to ensure
that all citizens and health
operators have access to the
appropriate health
information they need to
protect their health and the
health of the other people

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The European Commission
and the new funding scheme
HORIZON 2020

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11. What is Open Access (OA) for EC?
What OA is NOT
• Not an obligation to publish
• OA publications go through the same peer review process
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OA = online access at no charge to the user
• to peer-reviewed scientific publications
• to research data
Two main OA publishing business models
• Self-archiving: deposit of manuscripts & immediate/delayed OA
provided by author ("Green OA")
• OA publishing: costs covered & immediate OA provided by
publisher ("Gold OA")

12. Open access
to research publications
reaching 'tipping point'
Free availability of the majority of articles has been
reached in the fields of general science and technology,
biomedical research, biology
and mathematics and statistics.
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European Commission Press Release - IP/13/786 21/08/2013
The global shift towards making research findings available
free of charge for readers was confirmed in a study
funded by the European Commission.
This research suggests that OA is reaching the tipping
point, with around 50% of scientific papers published
in 2011 now available for free. … …

13. Guide to Open Access to
Publications and
the Open Research Data Pilot
in Horizon 2020
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From EC (Jarkko SIREN) presentation at the Conference
Harmonizing Current OA practices with H2020 Guidelines
Pisa, 08 April 2014

14. Why OA is relevant for EC
 improving efficiency, quality and impact
of publicly-funded research for society and innovation in Europe.
 Open access to publications: a general principle in H2020.
 Both Green and Gold open access models are promoted.
 Depositing underlying data is encouraged.
 Open access to data: a pilot in H2020 will test and monitor analyse
experiences.
 Open access policy is not a goal in itself,
but an element in promoting forward-looking digital practices
for future research, education and innovation
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• Energy;
• Environment;
• Health;
• ITC
• Research Infrastructures
• Science in Society;
• Socio-economic Sciences

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"This pilot is part of our commitment to
openness in Horizon 2020. I look forward
to seeing the first results, which will be
used to help set the course for the
future."
Neelie Kroes,
Vice-President of
the European
Commission for the
Digital Agenda
Commissioner
Máire Geoghegan-
Quinn, Research
and Innovation
H2020
"We know that sharing and re-using research
data holds huge potential for science,
society and the economy. This Pilot is an
opportunity to see how different disciplines
share data in practice and to understand
remaining obstacles."
About HORIZON 2020
and the Pilot on Open data

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NEW

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The Commission recognises
that research data is
as important as publications.

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Questions?

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• Regulation establishing Horizon 2020 (article 18)
• Specific Programme (preamble 1.3)
• Rules for Participation (article 43)
• Work Programme 2014-15 (Introduction 1.5 and relevant areas)
• Model Grant Agreement (articles 6.2.D.3, 29.2 and 29.3)
• Annotated Model Grant Agreement (reference to Guidelines below)
• Guidelines on OA to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Horizon 2020
• Guidelines on Data Management in Horizon 2020
OA in Horizon 2020: where to look
Source for all documents:
Participant Portal (reference documents)
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html

27. Model Grant Agreement, pg. 61

28. HEALTH SCIENCES.
Where is the source of data?
 Governmental
research bodies
 NIH
 INSERM
 ISS
 +++
 Academia
 Research councils
 Industry
 and others
 Publications as a
reference value
 MEDLINE
 ISI
 DOAJ
 ROAR
 + + +
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How to evaluate impact
for science and society?

29. Articles in MEDLINE
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YEARS 2011 % 2012 % 2013 %
Total no. articles 954.272 953.437 1.032.290
full text available 26137 93,6 27575 94,8 30850 94,1
full text free 6211 22,2 7377 25,3 7658 23,4
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Necessary to reduce the gap between
full text available and full text free

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Most represented
countries
Disciplines
99
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Publication fees
9
no charges
67%
conditional
5%
charges
26%
no info
2%
How many journals in the world
require fees to publish?
no charges
87%
conditional
2% charges
10%
no info
1%
How many journals in Italy
require fees to publish?
No fee
67% total
87% in Italy
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32. Some considerations on ISS
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….as a reserch institute for public health
producer and publisher of medical literature
Established 1934
Total staff 1800
Researchers 900
Publications 1800

33. All ISS publications are free online on
ISS website in PDF, since 2000
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The journal Annali is indexed
in ISI and more recently
in SciELO (producing HTML
using the ISI IF formula
NEWS
SciELO Citation Index
in WoS

34. Digital archive Dspace ISS
>34.000
 Title, Author, Date
 Publication Type
 MESH terms
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 Communities(9)
Major awareness towards
Open data
High potential, BUT…
 Prudent data sharing
 Training courses
 Empowerment
 Direct contacts with authors
 “Mediated” deposit

35. Databases and registers in ISS website
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Free access databases
Reserved access Databases
Nazional registries
What about metadata?

36. Steps towards OA at ISS
 2006 Signature of the Berlin Declaration
 International Conference to present di presentazione del D-Space ISS
 2007 Signature of the Petition to the european Commission in
support of OA to publicly funded research
( http://www.ec-petition.eu/)
 2008, realease of the institutional policy
http://www.iss.it/binary/sae4/cont/policy_ISS.jpg
 2009-2014 Participation in EU funded projects in support of OA
(NECOBELAC, MEDOANET)
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The most populated
repository in Italy is in
Medicine (ISS)
ROAR
REGISTRY OF
OA REPOSITORIES
Long way towards open data

38. NECOBELAC PROJECT
FP7 coordinated by ISS
 Promote OA for public health
in Europe e Latin America (2009-2012)
 Promote training in public health institutions (>50 courses)
 network > 200 institutions
 training support material
(topic maps semantic web ) in 4 lunguages
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After NECOBELAC
OA training and advocacy + Open Data
OA topics is included in research activity
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Objective and results

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OA topics in research activities
Some examples after NECOBELAC
in Latin America and Africa
CASA (AIDS)
E-learning platform
in scientific communication
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Asbestos
project

40. ECDL Health Doc
towards a European patent
for scientific information and documentation
Pilot course, Rome, 4,5,12,19 marzo 2014
 biomedical databases,
 research evaluation parameters,
 scientific writing,
 open access publishing,
 websites assessment,
 tools for patient education and empowerment,
 Web 2.0 applications.
 accesso al documento originale e all’informazione a testo completo
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Certify skills on :
Focus on skills needed for managing scientific information
and create awareness on OA
Results of the pilot
course will be presented
at EAHIL 2014

41. The heart of the ECDL Project is a Syllabus
summarising the basic competences health professionals
should have to get the diploma ECDL HealthDoc
1 Sources of health information
2 Access to full-text information
3 Web information quality
4 Research evaluation
5 EBM documentation
6 Scientific writing
7 Health information for citizens and patients
8 Web 2.0

42. First results on a survey on
JCR/DOAJ journals, 2010-2012
How many DOAJ are in JCR?
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2010
2011
2012
Riviste JCR
Riviste DOAJ
83368073 8471
9,69 %
10,32 %
10,95 %
ISS journalsAll JCR jounals
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E. Poltronieri, C. Mancini, 2014, unpublished

43. Italian translation
di E. Poltronieri, A. De Robbio, P. Gargiulo, P. De Castro
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To support OA to research
publications and data

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ECRAN Project
European
Communication on
Research
Awareness
Needs
The ECRAN Project aims to make understanding clinical trials
- a relevant element of medical research - easy, and tells
you all about taking part in them.
• Awareness
• Inclusion
• Participation
• Sharing
Involve all
stakeholders

45. DNA databanks
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Among the pioneers of data sharing
Example of the advantages of being open
and sharing for all stakeholders

46. SINIACASistema Informativo Nazionale Incidenti di Ambienti di Civile Abitazione
National informative system
on home injuries
• First AID
• Police
National statictics (open)
Minstry of Health
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IDB - Injury Data Base
(Europe)
Search per country
Compare data
Example of integration of different local systems

47. EC public consultation
on research data
• How can we define research data and what types of research data should be open?
• When and how does openness need to be limited?
• How should the issue of data re-use be addressed?
• Where should research data be stored and made accessible?
• How can we enhance data awareness and a culture of sharing?
LEAD QUESTIONS
Bruxelles, July 2, 2013
Esempio dell’atteggiamento dei ricecatori
tratto dal gruppo BRIF
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48. Position of the Editorial Subgroup of the project
BRIF (BIORESOURCE RESEARCH IMPACT FACTOR)
agreed upon during the Workshop on Standardization of bioresources citation.
ISS, Rome, June 21, 2013
It is important to create awareness and trust on the use of open bioresources.
The EC should create mechanisms and incentives that facilitate the culture of sharing through ad
hoc recommendations and the inclusion of specific clauses on open research data in their funding
schemes. Technical issues about quality, maintenance and long-term preservation of open data
should take into consideration the requirements of the different stakeholders. The EC should
consider funding measures to create and test tools for implementing such mechanisms.
There is general agreement that it is important that the EC consider the issue of bioresources/biobanks as relevant
sources of aggregated open research data that have an impact on both on science and society.
It is important that such data are shared for the progress of global research, to avoid duplication and to benefit from
large investments in terms of both financial and personnel efforts, including donors’
In consideration of the ethical issues associated to bioresources, only aggregated results can be shared openly
As regards where research data be stored, there was discussion about infrastructures and clouding and about
maintenance and preservation issues during and after a research project involving collection and use of bioresources
Awareness and Impact
Levels of sharing. Aggregated data
 Data life cycle. Data Management Plan
Awareness, Trust, Binding mechanisms
P. De Castro, ISS, IT
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49. Funding authorities should adopt incentive and binding mechanisms and prioritize funding to
research projects whose outputs and underlying research data are openly accessible and
reusable. Such research projects should produce data which are natively open and reusable
E-Research, E-science – Global collaboration – Next generation infrastructure
Research data are associated with research activity in the process of creating knowledge on the basis of existing knowledge
Research data and Open data are strictly connected, especially when publicly funded research is involved, but the
different nature of research data needs careful consideration
Research data need to be shared and properly managed within and beyond the research process which generated
them, and they need to be preserved in such a way as to maximise benefits from their use and re-use for the sake of all
individuals and society at large (NSF)
Strategic infrastructures for open data should be globally integrated and should be built on persistent identification
mechanisms which account the versioning of the whole chain of research outputs (data, pre-print, post-print and other
research products subject to disclosure). This will achieve both the goals of smart access and reuse of research outputs
and a coherent framework for digital preservation (OpenAire Plus, EUDAT).
Multidimensional Approach to Open Science (liason officers)
Goverments gain from open data sharing (EC, OECD, G8 Open Research data)
Definition, awareness, policies
Data Management Plan
Binding mechanisms in funding schemes
Return on investment
Globally integrated infrastructures
P. De Castro, ISS, IT
Critical points EC Consultation, July 2013
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BRIF takes part in the testing of a new journal Ubiquity Press

51. Final considerations
simplifying the complexity of the processes involved
Researchers pride was to produce and share
quality publications (journal articles, reports) as
reference tools useful for the scientific community
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open data sharing is the only way to keep effective
communication towards progress in science and guarantees
major equity to access and distribution of resources
Past
Present
Evaluation processes directly influence researchers’ choices
ISS, since 1938 has been publishing;
since 2000 all publications are
Future Conjugate advantages coming from ICT with ethical
principles of research within a concerted networked action
(sharing, transparency, integrity, privacy, innovation,
sustainibility)

52. … The major concern about data sharing
is not associated with one project only
(where it seems easier to foresee data
sharing and the creation of DMPs) but,
it is at broader institutional level,
national or international level where a
commitment towards open sharing is a
real challenge …
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The voice of researchers (ISS)
paola.decastro@iss.itTHANK YOU!