Talk given at Open Science Workshop-| Knowledge for All, 29th March in Lisbon

1. Austrian Transition to
Open Access and
beyond
Patrick Danowski

2. Austria 2012
• only a few Institutional Repositories (3)
• FWF funds Hybrid OA publications
• overall Austria not a strong OA player
• No discussion green vs. gold

3. • voluntary bottom up initiative
• focus on moving Open Access forward
(with Open Science in mind)
• 57 member institutions
• different working groups

4. Source:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.34079

5. “Since it is now technically possible,
it is the intrinsic duty of public authorities to enforce the
transition to full Open Access
politically and financially.”
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6. Goal
100% Gold OA in
2025
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7. Recommendations 1/2
• Reorganize publishing
contracts
• Support international
cooperation
• Introduce publication
funds
• Reorganize publication
venues
• Merging the publication
infrastructure
• Monitoring during
implementation
• Acknowledging Open
Access / Open Science
• Set targets for Open
Science

8. Recommendations 2/2
• Introduce Open Access
policy
• Registration of repositories
• Support self-archiving
• Offer training programs
• Opening the inventories
• Provide start-up capital
• Expand the scope of the
copyright reform of 2015
• Create cost transparency

9. Introduce OA Policy
No Information
2
No
6
In Planing
6
Yes
9
Information
from 23 project partners
(eInfrastructure)
• EU Network PASTEUR4OA
says that FWF has one of the
most effective OA policies of
a public funder in Europe.
• Austrian Court of Audit
recently claims OA for all
publicly funded research.

10. From 2020 onward, license agreements with
publishers should be concluded in a manner
that the research publications are
automatically published OA.
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Reorganize publisher
contracts

11. Reorganize publisher
contracts
In Negotiation: Wiley, Elsevier

12. From 2017 onward, all research and
funding organizations in Austria should
participate jointly in national and
international initiatives that promote high-
quality non-commercial publication models
and infrastructures.
Support international
cooperation

13. Support international
cooperation
FWF ~ € 50.000 p.a.
Univ Vienna / FWF $ 6.000 p.a.
consortium of 16 institutions € 34.500 p.a.
consortium of 4 institutions € 30.000 p.a.
Academy of Fine Arts / FWF € 17.500 p.a.

14. Openness is the normative pledge of science
and scholarship.
It is the precondition that research results can
be replicated, verified, falsified and reused
for scholarly as well as
for practical applications.
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15. Towards Open Science
• The strategy [..] should be developed into a full-fledged
Open Science strategy from 2017 onward.
• OANA plans to investigate Open Research Data, OER
& future of scholary communication.
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16. Together we can
manage the transition
to Open Access
as base for Open
Science
patrick.danowski@ist.ac.at
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