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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""
lang="EN-GB">The European OpenAIRE initiative held on the 11
June the first workshop in a series related to “research data
linked to publications” in conjunction with the Nordbib
Conference in Copenhagen. The workshop covered research data
policies; implementation from institutional and funder
perspectives, and cross-linking from publications to associated
data sets.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"
lang="EN-GB">OpenAIRE took this opportunity to agree on a joint
statement responding to the results of the recently finalized
European PEER project. The statement is supported by UK
RepositoryNet.<br>
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<b>- Large-scale deposit in repositories increases access and use
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OpenAIRE, a European initiative co-funded by the European
Commission (EC), welcomes the results of the PEER project,
presented on the 29 May in Brussels. Publishers, research
libraries and research organisations effectively collaborated in
building a controlled research environment to study the effects of
green open access. Usage research in this so-called “PEER
Observatory” revealed that large-scale deposit of research
articles results in increased access and use, including via the
publisher website.<br>
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Norbert Lossau, Scientific Coordinator of OpenAIRE and member of
the PEER Executive, pointed out that “the economic research of the
PEER project could not find any evidence for the hypothesis that
self-archiving affects journal viability”. He called upon
publishers, libraries and repositories to re-use the
PEER-infrastructure for large-scale publisher-/library-assisted
deposit of research articles: “Re-using the PEER infrastructure
and stepping up the transition from subscription to gold open
access journals will provide comfortable ways for researchers to
comply with the important open access mandate of the European
Commission which we expect to be expanded in Horizon 2020”.<br>
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OpenAIRE builds up a Pan-European publication Infrastructure,
bringing together 33 European countries to provide open access to
European research results. It collects publications resulting from
EC-funded projects with the aim of improving the visibility of
European research, and supports the EC’s Open Access Pilot. Future
services deployed by OpenAIRE will include the support of
statistics and the creation of complex publications linking from
articles to research data. OpenAIRE collaborates with publishers,
repositories and data providers in order to enable seamless
integration of European research into global knowledge
infrastructures.<br>
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</span><a
href="http://www.openaire.eu/en/home/9-news-events/387-large-scale-deposit-in-repositories-increases-access-and-use">http://www.openaire.eu/en/home/9-news-events/387-large-scale-deposit-in-repositories-increases-access-and-use</a><br>
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<b>Contacts</b><br>
Birgit Schmidt, OpenAIRE Scientific Manager,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bschmidt@sub.uni-goettingen.de">bschmidt@sub.uni-goettingen.de</a> <br>
Najla Rettberg, OpenAIREplus Scientific Manager,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rettberg@sub-uni-goettingen.de">rettberg@sub-uni-goettingen.de</a> <br>
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Dr. Birgit Schmidt
Scientific Manager
Goettingen State and University Library
- Electronic Publishing -
Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1
D-37073 Goettingen
Tel. +49 551 39-5228
Fax +49 551 39-5222
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bschmidt@sub.uni-goettingen.de">bschmidt@sub.uni-goettingen.de</a>
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COAR <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.coar-repositories.org">www.coar-repositories.org</a>
OpenAIRE <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.openaire.eu">www.openaire.eu</a>
OAPEN <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.oapen.org">www.oapen.org</a>
Open Access <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.open-access.net">www.open-access.net</a></pre>
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