Presentation given at EC INFSO-RTD Open Access co-ordination workshop, Brussels, 4th May

1. Western European NOADs‘ experience
Awareness raising and how to reach
researchers and their organisations
Open Access Co-ordination workshop

2. Main Goals
Deliver “an electronic infrastructure and
supporting mechanisms for the identification,
deposition, access, and monitoring of FP7 and
ERC funded articles”
Additionally, offer “a special repository for articles
that can be stored neither in institutional nor in
subject-based/thematic repositories”.
All deposited articles will be visible and freely
accessible worldwide through a new portal to the
products of EU-funded research, built as part of
this project.
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Helpdesk
Orphan
repository
Openaire
portal

3. OpenAIRE helpdesk
Network of National Open Access Desks
(NOAD) in 27 European countries
Devided in 4 regions
A coordination team taking care of the
toolkits, the helpdesk, communication
planning, …
OpenAIRE Project Overview3

4. OpenAIRE Project Overview4

5. OpenAIRE Project Overview5

6. Helpdesk portal
Toolkits for authors, research institutions,
repository managers, NOADs
FAQ
“ask a question” ticketing system
Copyright information
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7. Liaison Offices
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8. Region west
Several countries very active in open
access since years
– Workflows in place: infiltrate
– Imbedded in existing associations /
institutions: make use of them
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9. Goal
To make compliance as easy as possible
for the researcher
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10. Infiltrate in workflow researchers
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11. Connect projectinfo to publication
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12. Primary actions of NOAD
⇒ focus on OpenAIRE compliancy
⇒ focus on contact with NCP and
repository managers
⇒ point to orphan repository
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13. Repository managers
OpenAIRE guidelines define how to
include project information, extension of
driver guidelines
Primary group to target: DRIVER
compliant repositories
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14. Risks
Sometimes hesitant to become
OpenAIRE compliant (first driver, now
openaire, what’s next?)
Many have small budgets for
development (even small adjustments
cost and should be scheduled)
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15. Compliant repositories in region West
HAL
Archimer
UGent Biblio
Soon to be compliant:
– RIAN
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16. National contact points NCP
All countries are in contact with NCP
Some NCP’s reluctant to work together
(the letter of EC was helpful)
Several NOADs have organized an info
day and have written publications in local
journals
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17. Local contact points
Different approach big countries / small
countries.
– Big country like France: difficult to
approach universities individually
– Small country like Belgium: no problem to
visit all the universities individually
Local contact points like to contact their
researchers themselves
=> give them the information to include in
their FP7 information packages, eg letters,
leaflets, …
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18. Support EC needed
Updated list of FP7 funded projects with
Clause 39 as well as contact details of
the project partners will be very valuable
for further project dissemination activities
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19. Funding agencies
Liaise with local funding agencies
Interest is shown in the guidelines for their
own purposes
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20. Other activities
In Austria and Belgium OpenAIRE was an
accelerator to revive resp. develop a
dedicated open access site:
www.openaire.at
www.openaire.be
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21. Thank you for your attention!
www.openaire.eu