NEWSLETTER February 2015   The PASTEUR4OA project supports the development and alignment of Open Access strategies and policies at the national level to promote the implementation of the European Commission's 2012 Recommendation on Access to Scientific Information and the Open Access Mandate for Horizon 2020. Read more...    Newsletter Highlights ▪ PASTEUR4OA National Open Access Case Studies ▪ PASTEUR4OA Open Access Policies Analysis ▪ PASTEUR4OA Meeting of National Experts ▪ PASTEUR4OA Blogs and News ▪ OA Developments: RECODE Policy Recommendations for Open Access to Research Data  ▪ OA Developments: OA Policy Revision in Austria ▪ OA Developments: German Federal and Regional Governments OA Policy ▪ OA Developments: Hungary's OA Policy Updates ▪ OA Developments: Italy's Messina Declaration 2.0  ▪ OA Developments: Italy's Roadmap for Open Access 2014-2018 ▪ OA Developments: Revision of Serbia's Higher Education Law   PASTEUR4OA Research National Open Access Case Studies   A series of case studies were published by the PASTEUR4OA project with the aim to inform the recently established Europe-wide network of centres of expertise - Key Nodes - and the general public on Open Access policy developments in various European countries. The case studies provide information about the national scholarly communication systems, developments on national, institutional and funder OA policies, and current infrastructure support. Four case studies - Portugal, United Kingdom, Norway and Hungary - can now be downloaded from the PASTEUR4OA website. Open Access Policies Analysis   Analysis of Open Access policies was conducted as part of the PASTEUR4OA project which included important aspects. Firstly, searching for Open Access policies not registered in ROARMAP and adding those policies to the database. Secondly, recording the characteristics of every policy in ROARMAP against a new classification scheme. As a result, ROARMAP was updated and now includes enhanced searching and browsing functionalities. Thirdly, determining the levels of Open Access material in institutional repositories of ROARMAP institutions. And finally, using those policies that are mandatory to carry out a regression analysis to see which policy elements correlate significantly with effectiveness in delivering high levels of Open Access content. A report with the results of the analysis conducted will be available at the end of January 2015.  PASTEUR4OA Events Meeting of National Experts   PASTEUR4OA project partners and Key Nodes gathered on 2-3 December 2014 in London to discuss strategies to promote the development, implementation and alignment of Open Access policies across Europe according to the Horizon 2020 Open Access mandate. At the meeting, Open Access policy formulation, compliance and alignment issues were addressed. Lessons were learned from successful cases where Open Access policies were adopted at the national, institutional and funder levels. A framework was discussed to refine the priorities and activities of the Knowledge Net.  PASTEUR4OA Blogs & News   A series of blog posts and news have been published highlighting the PASTEUR4OA project priorities and the achievements made at the meeting of national experts: ▪ PASTEUR4OA Meeting of National Experts (EN) ▪ PASTEUR4OA Open Access in Europe (FR) ▪ Aligning Europe's Approaches to Open Access (EN) ▪ Working Together to Promote Open Access Policy Alignment in Europe (EN) OA Developments As Open Access policies become increasingly visible, this section reports on policy related developments. RECODE Policy Recommendations for Open Access to Research Data    The RECODE policy recommendations for open access to research data were officially released at the RECODE Final Conference in January 2015. The recommendations are targeted to four key stakeholder groups identified as instrumental in bringing about change with respect to sharing research data: research funders, research institutions, data managers and publishers. RECODE aimed to facilitate the implementation of policies for open access to research data by providing both over-arching and stakeholder-specific recommendations. These are based on good practice examples for each of these stakeholders that will serve as “models” for providing open access to research data and immediately direct interested parties to important existing practices. The recommendations are also enriched with practical guidance for institutions, such as checklists, resources, description of what policy content should include, based on good practice research. OA Policy Revision in Austria The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) revised its Open Access policy. The policy includes new elements. There is a price cap for Gold Open (€2,500 per article) and Hybrid Open Access fees (€1,500). The Stand-Alone Publications programme is now extended to new digital Open Access publication formats. The CC BY licence is obligatory for all publication formats where costs are covered. Offsetting models for Hybrid Open Access payments against subscriptions (see Austria and IOP Publishing) will be extended to other publishers in 2015. Applicants for research grants have to budget funds to process, archive and re-use open research data. German Federal and Regional Governments OA Policy   In August 2014 the German Federal Government published a Digital Agenda which includes a statement supporting Open Access publishing and access to research data resultant from publicly funded research. At the state level the regional governments of Baden-Württemberg (August 2014) and Schleswig-Holstein (November 2014) published specific Open Access strategies.   Hungary's OA Policy Updates   The Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) Open Access mandate has been effective since 2013. The mandate accepts both the Green and Gold OA routes for compliance. For Green OA, publications can be deposited in the MTA repository  or in subject repositories and the Hungarian Scientific Bibliography database monitors the mandate's effectiveness. Recently, the MTA Committee on Publishing Scientific Books and Journals determined that open access to publications is mandatory and that they must be deposited in REAL. Different embargo periods are acceptable for deposits: one year for individual journal articles, two years for full issues or volumes. Read more... Italy's Messina Declaration 2.0    The 'Messina Declaration: the Italian road to Open Access' meeting looked at the progress made on Open Access policy and infrastructure development in Italy. Issues related to the development of Open Access policies and challenges linked to institutional policy implementation and compliance were addressed. Presentations on the progress made by Italian institutions towards Open Access demonstrated how institutions are adapting to this transition. Read more... Italy's Roadmap for Open Access 2014-2018   On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Messina Declaration on Open Access nearly forty Italian universities and research bodies signed the Roadmap for Open Access 2014-2018. The roadmap  promotes the implementation of institutional policies focused on consolidating Open Access to scientific information. It fosters institutional dialogue in order to build a national vision towards Open Access and promotes actions that require the further implementation of the  Open Access legal framework. These measures are intended to promote alignment with the Horizon 2020 Open Access mandate. Revision of Serbia's Higher Education Law Amendments were made to the Serbian Higher Education Law that are now obligatory for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Doctoral dissertations must now be made available to the public prior to the thesis defense. Universities must establish a digital repository where the doctoral dissertation will be stored and they must submit a copy of the dissertations to a central repository. These changes comply with the guidelines of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and encourage Serbian HEIs to comply with the European repository of doctoral  dissertations regulations. www.pasteur4oa.eu | pasteur4oa-news@ekt.gr  This publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Photo Credits: Photo 1 ©  Open Access Week; Photo 2 © PASTEUR4OA; Photo 3 © PASTEUR4OA; Photo 4 © Raysonho; Photo 5 ©  RECODE; Photos 6 - 11 ©  Wikipedia.

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