Implementing open access mandates in Europe: OpenAIRE study on the development of open access repository communities in Europe

摘要

The Openaire project supports the implementation of Europe’s open accesspolicies as outlined in the European Research Council’s Guidelinesfor Open Access and the European Commission’s Seventh FrameworkProgramme (FP7) Open Access Pilot.This work highlights existing open access policies in Europe and providesan overview of publishers’ self-archiving policies. It also highlightsthe strategies needed to implement these policies. It provides a uniqueoverview of national awareness of open access in 32 European countriesinvolving all eu member states and in addition, Norway, Iceland, Croatia,Switzerland and Turkey. Moreover, it describes funder and institutionalopen access mandates in Europe and national strategies to introduce andimplement them. An overview is provided of the repository infrastructurecurrently in place in European countries, including institutional and disciplinaryrepositories, national repository networks and national open accessinformation portals and support networks.There are robust regional and national networks of open access advocatesrepresenting libraries and some research discipline communities.More than half of the European countries covered in this work have alreadyestablished national repository infrastructures. In some of thesecountries, the FP7 Open Access Pilot was the catalyst for discussionsabout funders’ open access policies and the development of national researchinfrastructures (e.g. in Bulgaria, Estonia and Slovenia).