Open Science 2020
Harmonizing Current OA practices with H2020 Guidelines
8 April 2014
The European Commission has recently published the Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data under Horizon2020.
Open access to scientific publications is now mandatory for all publications resulting from Horizon2020 funded projects. Projects are also invited to deposit the research data needed to validate the results presented in the deposited publications, known as "underlying data".
To start-up this process the Commission has also launched a Pilot on Research Data. It targets both underlying data and other data as indicated by researchers in their Data Management Plans (DMPs), a new element in Horizon 2020. DMPs describe the data management life cycle for all data that will be collected, processed or generated by the research project. Research and academic institutions in the different Member States are called to set up appropriate instruments to enable their researchers to comply with these guidelines.
This workshop aims at outlining the Italian answer to these requirements, supported by collaborations experienced in the OpenAIRE European Project.
In particular, its main objectives are:
- Identify which research institutions and universities are activating initiatives or proposing solutions;
- Discuss these initiatives and solutions to verify whether and how they can contribute to support the European guidelines;
- Recognize which technological, organizational and/or policy gaps are to be overcome in order to set up a national plan meeting, and being interoperable with the solutions proposed at European level and by other Member States.
