[GOAL] Re: University-as-publisher goes OA, but fails as University-as-provider

[Iryna Kuchma]

Dear Andrew (if I may),

Thank you for your comment! Bożena Bednarek-Michalska has provided an
explanation (see Richard Poynder's "Open Access in Poland: Interview with
Bożena Bednarek-Michalska":
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2013/04/open-access-in-poland-interview-with.html
):

*"RP:  ROARMAP lists **three OA
mandates<http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/geoname/geoname=5F2=5FPL.html>in
Poland, and OpenDOAR lists 75
repositories <http://www.opendoar.org/find.php>. I am not sure how up to
date these figures are, or how many research institutions there are in
Poland, but assuming the figures are correct how satisfied are you with
progress to date?"*

 *B B-M:  "*I would think it fair to say that at the moment the situation
is very dynamic so far as OA in Poland is concerned. The good news is that
something changed within the Polish scientific community last year. Many
researchers now understand that repositories can promote the research
output of their university, and therefore of their own work. And they
realise that this can increase the number of citations that their papers
attract, and thus the impact of their work. This is probably because they
have now had sufficient experience of using the Internet to see the
benefits of increasing the visibility of their research by making it freely
available.

 But as I noted, there has been no progress with regard to OA policies and
mandates. <http://www.blogger.com/null> In Poland no one wants to force
scientists to make their work openly available, so the focus is on
voluntarism. <http://www.blogger.com/null>Rather than work on developing a
university policy it is felt better to let librarians develop and manage
the institutional repository and allow faculty to get used to it. Trying to
do it the other way round does not work. Perhaps Poles first need to be
shown what is possible, and become acclimatised to new ways of distributing
their research over time."

*"RP: Who would you say is mainly driving the development of OA in Poland
today: researchers, librarians, research funders, or the government?"*

 <http://www.blogger.com/null>*"B B-M: *In Poland, the majority of OA
initiatives are undertaken by librarians...

That said, there are a number of research centres that have supported open
access for a while now — e.g. ICM UW (Warsaw University Interdisciplinary
Centre for Mathematical and Computational
Modelling<http://www.icm.edu.pl/web/guest;jsessionid=BFB28DC7015F95303835E41EC617E6C3>),
the NCU <http://www.umk.pl/en/>, the AGH Kracow University of
Science<http://www.agh.edu.pl/en/>,
and the Polish Academy of Sciences <http://www.english.pan.pl/>.

 We have also seen the emergence of an initiative of young researchers
known as The Citizens of Science <http://obywatelenauki.pl/>. One of the
goals of this organisation is to promote open access.

One thing that distinguishes Poland from other European countries is the
existence of the Open Education Coalition (KOED<http://koed.org.pl/english/>).
This brings together a number of organizations that are working towards
opening up educational and science resources, and representatives of the
coalition take part in all the important debates about openness in Poland.

 <http://www.blogger.com/null>I should add that the Polish government —
specifically the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Science and Higher
Education, and the Ministry of Administration and
Digitization<https://mac.gov.pl/>— has also recently begun to take an
interest in the topic.

 Aware of the debate that took place in Europe in 2011, in 2012 the
Ministry of Science and Higher Education commissioned a report on open
science. This was edited by Marek Niezgódka, and published by ICM UW.

 The report is called *Implementation and promotion of open access to
scientific and educational content* and it outlined a path that academic
institutions could follow if they decided to implement the OA model."

 *"RP:  What recommendations did it make?"*

*"B B-M: *The main* *recommendations were as follows:

Both the National Science Centre and the National Centre for Research and
Development should mandate open access for the research they fund;

All the publicly-funded programmes of the Ministry of Science should use an
open access model for the scientific material they produce;

Doctoral theses and dissertations should be published under an open access
model."

So OA movement in Poland keeps advocating for Green OA mandates and I hope
we shall see some positive developments soon.

Best wishes,
Iryna

Iryna Kuchma
EIFL Open Access Programme Manager
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Andrew A. Adams <aaa at meiji.ac.jp> wrote:

>
> Via the EIFL newsletter:
> ---------------------------------
> OA publishing at Nicolaus Copernicus University
> Published:
> 26 Jul 2013
>
> Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) in Poland introduces a mandatory open
> access publishing policy for all NCU journals.
>
> In 2012 an open journal publishing platform (based on OJS) was launched
> that
> currently hosts 30 open access journals published under Creative Commons
> BY-ND license. Within two years all 40 NCU journals will be openly
> available
> on this platform.
>
> NCU also encourages open access to all research outputs and open
> educational
> resources via institutional OA repository, digital library and OER portal
> to
> promote Polish science and education in the world. The University Library
> has
> played a significant role in these developments.
>
> Congratulations to Bo\u017cena Bednarek-Michalska, EIFL-OA country
> coordinator, and her NCU colleagues!
>
> http://tinyurl.com/pb763fl
>
> ---------------------------------
> AAA comment:
>
> However, Nicolaus Copernicus University does not appear to have a Green OA
> Mandate (it has no entry in ROARMAP, at least). SO, while it's activity as
> a
> publisher in moving to OA is to be lauded, it is likely that its own
> academics produce far more articles in a year than are published in these
> 40
> journals, and without a mandate many of these articles are probably
> languishing inaccessible behind paywalls at publisher sites.
>
> --
> Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
> Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
> Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/
>
>
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