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M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries Directors

Learn about UK Research and Innovation's vision to create an outstanding organization that maintains the UK's world-leading position in research and innovation. Discover their commitment to open science, accessibility, accountability, and innovation through initiatives like the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) and Research Excellence Framework (REF).

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M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries Directors

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  1. M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries Directors David SweeneyExecutive Chair, Research England 20 September 2019

  2. UK Research and Innovation • More that £6.5 billion per year • 3900 research and business grants each year • 151 universities funded • 38 research and innovation performing organisations

  3. UKRI vision UK Research and Innovation intends to be an outstanding organisation that ensures the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation • We will do this by creating a system that maximises the contribution of each of the component organisations and which creates the best environment for research and innovation to flourish • We will preserve the strengths which have made today’s system successful, in particular around the Haldane Principle, dual support and recognition for the particular strengths and roles of each partner body

  4. Open science in research culture • Incentives • Pressure on staff • Reproducibility

  5. Open Science • Open data • Different forms of peer review • Intellectual property

  6. Open everywhere Research is a process of investigation leading to new insights, effectively shared

  7. Open for accountability By Maurice from Zoetermeer, Netherlands (The British Parliament and Big Ben) CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  8. Open for innovation • Minimising the barriers to: • Ideas • Data • Tools

  9. KEF – two pillars

  10. KEF Purpose(s) • More accessible information and data for institutions to understand and improve their own performance. • More information for businesses and other users of university knowledge and resources • Increased public visibility and accountability for £250m of funding

  11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icq_B7DeLwY&t=4s

  12. Open for researchers

  13. Policy instruments – UK Research and Innovation

  14. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) and open research To be eligible for assessment journal articles and conference proceedings must be deposited and available OA with maximum embargo periods of 12 or 24 months • Environment template will require information on: • OA beyond minimum requirements • Approach to open research data • Other aspects of open research 60% 15% 25%

  15. REF2021 timeline

  16. REF2021 timeline

  17. REF2021 timeline

  18. REF2021 OA policy • REF OA policy is not there to catch institutions out • REF aims to assess excellent research • Exceptions to the policy, policy flexibility (1 April 2016 – 1 April 2018) • Policy presentation • Increased open access to research is resulting from considerable effort on the part of researchers, libraries, research offices

  19. National progress towards open access UUK (2017) Monitoring the transition to open access. http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2017/monitoring-transition-open-access-2017.pdf

  20. Issues to Address:UK policy environment • Changing researcher and university behavior • Leading to significant progress on OA • Resulting in increasing costs • Stimulating move to hybrid journals rather than fully OA • Limited evidence on open data • Need to consider promotion and recruitment criteria

  21. Plan S: Making full and immediate Open Access a reality M25 Libraries David Sweeney Sldes last updated: 3rd Sept 2019

  22. Agenda

  23. Plan S : Built on strong principles

  24. Implementation guidance – key changes (1) • Timeline extended by one year: • Calls published as of 1 January 2021 onwards • Transformative arrangements will be supported until end of 2024 • Greater clarity on compliance routes: • cOAlition S supports a diversity of business models • Plan S is NOT just about Gold OA • Options for range of transformative arrangements are supported • Transformative agreements and transformative journals)

  25. Implementation guidance – key changes (2) • Funders commit to implement DORA principles when undertaking research assessment • Greater emphasis on the transparency of OA publication fees • Option to request a CC-BY-ND licence as an exception • Technical requirements for journals, platforms and repositories revised and simplified

  26. cOAlition S: alignment of Open Access policies

  27. OA Champion of cOAlition S appointed • Johan Rooryck appointed as OA Champion of cOAlition S • Will represent cOAlition S in discussions with key stakeholders, globally • Over the next 3 months speaking at many meetings including: ALPSP, OASPA, AmeliCA, OA2020, and United Nations • Will help promote and develop Plan S and advise cOAlition S on the ways to implement the transition to full and immediate Open Access as smoothly as possible

  28. Working with key stakeholders: researchers • Working with researcher groups to ensure we understand their concerns and find ways of mitigating them • Seeking to work with Global Young Academy (and others) on developing indicators to measure impact of Plan S on ECR’s. A Task Force has been established to progress this. • Ambassador network established – to engage with research community and share concerns with cOAlition S leadership team

  29. Working with key stakeholders: publishers • In active discussions with publishers – such as the Society Publishers’ Coalition, Springer Nature and others – to explore the “transformative journal” model

  30. Working with key stakeholders: learned societies • Wellcome and UKRI, in partnership with ALPSP have funded a study to explore alternative business model for learned society publishers • Key deliverable will be the development of a model Transformative Agreement and implementation framework • Expectation is that a number of Societies will this Agreement to offer TA’s as early as 2020

  31. Working with key stakeholders: other OA initiatives Plan S is acting as a spur to encourage a transition to OA – as witnessed by the upsurge in transformative agreements

  32. Other activities – Transparent Pricing

  33. Other activities – cOAlition S Secretariat

  34. Other activities https://www.coalition-s.org/workplan/

  35. Questions and discussion

  36. OA - a global transition

  37. Plan S – one main shared objective “After 1 January 2021 scientific publications on the results from research funded by public grants provided by national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.”

  38. Where next? • UKRI review of open access policies: • A future open access policy for UKRI • Cap on APCs? Preference for gold or green? Preference for fully OA journals? Linkage to off-setting policy? • Monographs and other long form outputs • REF-after-next policy (will apply to monographs published from 1 Jan 2021 onwards) • Open research data • Publication practice and author choice • Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), Leiden Manifesto, Metric Tide

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