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07.18.2016
PASTEUR4OA’s Knowledge Net embedded within OpenAIRE

PASTEUR4OA and OpenAIRE are delighted to announce that PASTEUR4OA’s Knowledge Net activities to support the development and alignment of open access policies in Europe will continue as the Knowledge Net is integrated into the OpenAIRE infrastructure from September 2016. As the PASTEUR4OA project draws to a close, this will ensure the ongoing sustainability of its vital activities within one of Europe’s major Open Science e-infrastructures.

The Knowledge Net was developed in the context of the FP7-Funded policy-support project PASTEUR4OA to facilitate knowledge transfer and support read more...

07.11.2016
The Knowledge Net
One of the main aims of the PASTEUR4OA Project was to establish, nurture and build a sustainable future for a network of expert organisations across Europe that could continue the project’s OA (Open Access) policy work after the end of the funding period. This network is called the Knowledge Net.
 
The Knowledge Net is composed of an expert organisation in each country that has the authority and expertise to engage with policymakers, provide them with information, share best practices and offer guidance and advice where appropriate. These Knowledge Net member read more...
07.05.2016
PASTEUR4OA Toolkits for Research Performing Organisations and Research Funders to Develop Open Access Policies and Strategies

Supported by the European Commission (EC) under its 7th Framework Program, PASTEUR4OA (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research) project aims to help Member Nations develop policies to ensure open access to publicly funded research output.

As part of the project, a strong advocacy program has been developed.  Over 50 advocacy materials (c. 450 pages) covering various aspects of Open Access (OA) have been issued.  Among them are the two toolkits, one for read more...

06.30.2016
New at Open Science policy making? PASTEUR4OA offers a starter kit
If recent developments in the realm of Open Science show anything, it’s that ‘opening up’ research is here and it’s here to stay. 
 
The PASTEUR4OA project has played a small but crucial part in this process of transforming open science from a niche issue (remember the time when only 8% of articles were openly available) to the new standard in academics. ‘Open Access’ is no longer limited to providing access to journal articles. The standard is now Open Science - and with it comes the expectation that all publicly funded research should be available online for read more...
06.24.2016
Financial aspects of Open Access
The financial aspects – of Open Access is a recurring theme in the various advocacy materials produced by the PASTEUR4OA project. An overview on the price and value can be found in "The costs and benefits to the research community of Open Access: a briefing paper". 
 
Different business models for the scholarly communication are reviewed based on the literature, and potential savings are discussed. Transition to Green OA would be considerably cheaper, and less risky that to Gold OA, while Gold could read more...
06.22.2016
Blog post - Policy alignment to Horizon 2020 Data Visualizations

Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS), partner of the PASTEUR Project, have developed a set of data visualization tools which allow an overview of how aligned Open Access policies across the world are to thirteen of the requirements of the Horizon 2020 funding program.   The visualisations use data taken from the ROARMAP database to provide a view of the average read more...

06.21.2016
Funder Case Studies
The PASTEUR4OA project has produced a vast array of advocacy and dissemination materials aimed at supporting and assisting every aspect of establishing or updating an Open Access policy. It has among other things produced reports on policy efficiency, template documents and several case studies. In the funder case studies the PASTEUR4OA project presents two research funding organisations with a strong Open Access policy. They provide a closer look at the interesting examples of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) and the Health Research Board in Ireland (HRB) and their respective read more...
06.21.2016
PASTEUR4OA Institutional Case Studies

The collection of institutional case studies produced by the PASTEUR4OA project aims to deliver different views on the implementation of institutional Open Access policies across Europe.

Institutions from the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Norway, and Portugal describe several aspects that have influenced the adoption of Open Access policies within their organisations – from the institutional context to the development and running of institutional repositories.

In addition, a detailed description is given on how these institutions got to their current Open Access policies – read more...

06.16.2016
Open Access policy guidelines and checklists

To assist in the development of efficient Open Access policies among research performing organizations and funders the PASTEUR4OA project produced Open Access Policy Guidelines for Research Performing Organizations (also available in French, Portuguese, Slovak and Turkish) and Open Access Policy Guidelines for Funders (also available in French, Spanish, Slovak and Turkish). They provide the context, the process and a model policy (template) that will enable the institutions and funders read more...

06.15.2016
OA checker

The Nexa Center for Internet and read more...

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