Implementing open access mandates in Europe
Birgit Schmidt, Iryna Kuchma · 2012
early outreach to researchers (i.e. when a fp7-funded project is launched), the active involvement of fp7 National Contact Points (ncps), personal interaction with repository managers and the sharing of success stories to encourage new developments.The main issues that still need to be resolved in the coming years include the effective promotion of open access among research communities and support in copyright management for researchers and research institutions as well as intermediaries such as libraries and repositories.This work also outlines the continuation project, Openaireplus which aims to grow the scope of Openaire in terms of open access publications, and in addition connect these publications to other contextual information, such as research data and funding information.Opportunities for Openaire to cooperate with other stakeholders in order to achieve European and global synergies are also highlighted.Such stakeholders include research communities and/or publishers, the international Confederation of Open Access Repositories (coar), the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (sparc) Europe, Electronic Information for Libraries (eifl), unesco, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), international oa publishers, disciplinary scholarly societies and young researchers' organisations.