[GOAL] Fwd: Importance of OpenAIRE compliance for European institutional repositories

[Stevan Harnad]

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From: Neil JACOBS <n.jacobs at jisc.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: Importance of OpenAIRE compliance for European institutional
repositories
To: JISC-REPOSITORIES at jiscmail.ac.uk

Relevant only to UK repositories:

OpenAIRE compliance is only one thing that UK repositories have to
consider. JISC through

UKOLN are developing a schema, set of guidelines and software plugins to
enable UK repositories

 comply with OpenAIRE and Research Council requirements. See:


http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/repositories/rioxx.aspx

There will also be a Cerif profile. For Cerif, though, also worth looking
at the Cerif in Action plugins:
http://cerifinaction.wordpress.com/

Best wishes
Neil
M: 44 (0)7841951303.
Skype: neil.jacobs1

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*Subject*: Re: Importance of OpenAIRE compliance for European institutional
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Just to add that CERIF compliance is important to support a range of
research information exchange scenarios, as well as for research assessment
purposes.

Rosemary

On 20/11/2012 14:42, Stevan Harnad wrote:

** Cross-Posted **

 OpenAIRE<https://www.openaire.eu/en/about-openaire/openaire-project/objectives>
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<http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-12-790_en.htm>

 A compliance-endurance mechanism is what
NIH<http://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2012/11/16/improving-public-access-to-research-results/>
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<http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archivangelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active#q=convergent+competitive+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=active&tbm=blg&tbas=0&source=lnt&sa=X&ei=9YyrUPjGL6Tq0QH3s4G4Bw&ved=0CBwQpwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=7ebc7a35adcc8c1b&bpcl=38625945&biw=1263&bih=735>
rather
than divergent and competitive:

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


 The EPrints<https://www.openaire.eu/en/about-openaire/publications-presentations/presentations/doc_details/342-how-to-make-your-repository-openaire-compliant-eprints>
software
and DSpace<http://www.openaire.eu/en/about-openaire/publications-presentations/presentations/doc_details/344-how-to-make-your-repository-openaire-compliant-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<http://r4r.cerch.kcl.ac.uk>
,
for the purposes of national research assessment
(REF<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/sue2/r4r>
).

 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<http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342647/1/Oxtalk.pdf>
for its Green OA self-archiving component.

 The message below is forwarded with permission from
Eloy Rodriques of
OpenAIRE<https://www.openaire.eu/en/about-openaire/openaire-project/objectives>

 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.


-- 
Rosemary Russell
Innovation Support Centre
UKOLN, University of Bathhttp://isc.ukoln.ac.uk/
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