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Open Science Strategy Building in Lithuania: Administrator's Perspective

Learn about the legal framework and infrastructure supporting open science in Lithuania, incentives for implementation, challenges, and the funding landscape. Explore the push towards research excellence, knowledge transfer, and economic and social impact.

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Open Science Strategy Building in Lithuania: Administrator's Perspective

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  1. Open ScienceStrategyBuildingin Lithuania: administrator‘sperspectiveRimantas Jankauskas

  2. Legalframework • Law of ScienceandStudies, Article 51: Publicity of results of researchactivities • Seeking to guaranteethequality of researchfundedbystatebudget, transparency of theuse of fundingand to enhanceresearchprogress, allresults of researchmust be publiclyaccessible (oninternetorotherways), aslongas it doesnotcontradictlegalactsonprotection of intellectualproperty, commercialorstatesecrets. • Research Council of Lithuania: • GUIDELINES ON OPEN ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND DATA (2016)

  3. Infrastructurewehave: • Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library eLABa; this information system includes e-documents, such as scientificpublications(PDB),theses and dissertations (ETD). The data stored in the eLABaisaccessible in international aggregated databases DART-Europe, DRIVER, NDLTD and others; • Inter-institutional research publication and research data archives: The Lithuanian humanities and social sciences research data archive LIDA, the full-text database Lituanistika, the national open access research data archive (MIDAS); • Institutionalresearch databases: Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University and MykolasRomeris University open access databases.

  4. Incentivesfor (non)implementation of OS • Research Council project of „Qualificationrequirements“ (2019-03-26): • Not a singlementioningaboutpublishingin OS • Nomentioningabout Open Data • For STEM: imperative to havepublicationsin CA WoS, indicatingquartiles of journals (=“look at container, not contents”) • National depositories: metadata of papers, full texts only if does not contradict policy of journals

  5. Ratio of OA journals with total No (WoS data) Only 9.1% in Open Access journals in 2018!

  6. Why is it so? • Hierarchic traditions – academic merits are based on “prestige” • researcher needs “navigation tool” to get through growing silos of publications etc. • See “Qualification Requirements” with subsequences • No imperative for Open Data • No costs for publishing • Providing access to scientific information – administration’s business

  7. There is no free lunch… • Till March 2021, subscription for databases is covered by the structural funds • VU co-funding: c.300,000 Eur/year • After 2021 – several options: • Increase institutional co-funding (at expense of research?) • Decrease number of subscriptions (researchers will be “happy”?) • Look for alternatives (will discuss during those days)

  8. Alternative – shift from “reader pays” to “writer pays” • Who pays for Lithuanian authors? • Partner institutions • Research Council • University fund • Faculty funds • Included into budget of the project • Total sums - ???

  9. Summing up… • Let’s count money! • Let’s discuss alternatives for the ways to ultimate goal: • Research excellence (information flow ecosystem) • Necessity for studies (knowledge transfer) • Economic impact • Social impact and outreach

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