[GOAL] Importance of OpenAIRE compliance for European institutional repositories

[Stevan Harnad]

** Cross-Posted **

OpenAIRE is a central harvester of peer-reviewed research from
European institutional repositories (IRs).

In order to ensure compliance with the forthcoming EC Green OA 
self-archiving mandate it is important that all European IRs should
be OpenAIRE compliant, Horizon 2020

A compliance-endurance mechanism is what NIH is now beginning 
to implement too, 5 years after it first adopted its Green OA mandate.

But the NIH approach -- direct institution-external deposit by fundee or 
publisher, in PubMed Central -- is not a mechanism that will scale to
other funder mandates -- and especially not to institutional mandates. 

The reason is that the NIH is a central-deposit mandate and hence
fails to mobilize the funder's natural partner in ensuring grant
compliance, the one best placed and most motivated to do it:
the researcher's own institution.

OpenAIRE compliance is hence also important to provide a model for
mandates and best practice for research funding agencies worldwide,
to ensure that institutional and funder Green OA mandates are
convergent and collaborative rather than divergent and competitive:

Deposit institutionally (once  only) and harvest centrally 
(to as manyfunder-based or subject-based repositories 
as desired)

The EPrints software and DSpace IR software) both have
OpenAIRE-compliance plugin.

It is very important that institutions should activate, implement and
document the feature, to make sure their researchers use it
and know how to use it. (It's just a matter of adding the requisite
metadata about the research project and funder.)

UK IRs, for similar reasons, also need to be CERIF-compliant,
for the purposes of national research assessment (REF).

All of this pre-planning is important not only for EC-funded
research, but for RCUK-funded research too, in order to help
provide the all-important compliance-verification mechanism
for its Green OA self-archiving component.

The message below is forwarded with permission from 
Eloy Rodriques of OpenAIRE

Stevan Harnad

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Eloy Rodrigues" <eloy at sdum.uminho.pt>
> Subject: RE: Posting about OpenAIRE to GOAL
> 
> The OpenAIRE infrastructure will lead researchers to their institutional repository
> if there is one (registered on OpenDOAR, the information source we used for that
> functionality). If that repository is OpenAIRE compatible, after depositing his papers
> there the researcher doesn’t have to do anything else.
> 
> If the repository is not compatible, then after depositing the researcher must
> “declare/claim” that the publication is to be aggregated.
>  
> If the researcher doesn’t have a repository to archive, OpenAIRE offers an
> “orphan repository” where papers can be deposited directly.
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