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SELL 2010Open Access in France

Francis AndréJean-François Lutz

Mariette Naud

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STRUCTURE OF THE CIVIL RESEARCH SYSTEM

Ministry of Higher Education and

Research

POLICY

AGENCIES / PROGRAMMES

R&D PERFORMERS

High Council for Science & Technology

High Council for Research & Technology

Research Foundations

Ministry of Economy,

Industry and Employment

Firms Universities and other Higher Education

Parliament President of the Republic Prime Minister

Other Ministries

OSEO ANR

Regional Agencies

Programmes

EVALUATION

AERES

Research Organisations

(CNRS, INSERM…)

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REFORMS IN UNIVERSITIES

• 85 universities, 1,3 million students (2.3 in higher education)

• University Act (2007) :

• Greater autonomy in recruiting staff and faculty

• University board more open to external personalities

• Budget autonomy, full ownership of real estate (optional)

• Possibility of creating fundations

• « Campus » Plan (2008)

• Renovation of university campuses

• 10 projects selected

• Financed through interest revenues instead of subsidies

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SOME PUBLIC RESEARCH ORANISATIONS

Main public research institutes

Main fields of activitiesTotal

turnover 2007 (bn€)

CEAEnergy, ICT, Health, Defence, Security

3,4

CNRS All fields of basic research 2,8

INSERMBiology, Medical, Public Health

0,75

INRAAgriculture, Food, Environment

0,73

INRIA ICT 0,18

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NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS BY INSTITUTION TYPE AND SUBJECT

(2005)

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FRENCH PUBLICATIONS

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• At the begining : a researchers’ initiative

• Role of Frank Laloe

• CCSD created in 200O, HAL running in 2001

• The research institutions involement

• Berlin declaration

• 2005 : Archimer

• Role of the ANR

• 2007 : CLEO

OA HISTORY (I)

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• In Universities :

• 1998, Early Cybertheses project : University of Lyon II, 1998

• 2004, REVEL

• 2004, Couperin Manifesto

• Set up of many theses repositories

• Many universities tend to join HAL

• Funding agencies

• ANR statement, 2006

OA HISTORY (II)

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• What does the SNE (French publishers union) think ?

• Ok for OA

• But ask to take disciplinary spectificities into account

• Preserve a viable and sustainable economic model for STI

OA HISTORY (III)

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A NATIONAL AGREEMENT TOWARDS OPEN ARCHIVING

• Signed in 2006 for 2 years : national ly coordinated approach to open access to scholarly communcation

• Signed by CEA, CEMAGREF, CIRAD, CNRS, CPU (Universities), INRA, INRIA, INSERM, Pasteur institute, IRD, Conférence des Grandes Ecoles = 80% of the French research community

• Raising awareness in the scientific community, sharing common directory of laboratories and research institutions, sharing a core metadata set, linking local systems and HAL, proving long term preservation, offering legal support to authors

• Not renewed in 2008…

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• March 2010 : 168 existing open access journals

• No embargo period

• 6 were referenced in the Thomson – JCR

• Titles possibly missing

FRENCH OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

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A LARGE MAJORITY OF PUBLICLY FUNDED JOURNALS

11

95

38Commercial pub.

Public Research Inst.

Scholarly Societies

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A LARGE MAJORITY OF HSS JOURNALS

45

116

7 Science, Technology & MedicineHumanities & Social SciencesEconomics - Law -Political Sciences

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ONE PLATFORM CENTRALIZES MORE THAN HALF OF THE TITLES

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A LACK OF VISIBILITY IN INTERNATIONAL TOOLS

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• March 2010 : 68 repositories

• Central, thematic, institutional repositories taken into account

• No labotatory repositories

FRENCH OPEN ARCHIVES

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VARIETY OF DOCUMENT TYPES

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HAL’S CENTRAL ROLE

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INSTITUTIONS

6120

15

Percentage of institutions having set up an IR

Research organisms

Universities

Grandes ecoles

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STILL A LONG WAY TO GO…

• Raised initial enthusiasm among early advocates

• Keen discernment from some decision-makers

• Recent concern of universities for research exploitation potential

• Mandates : decision still depending on institutions

• Consensus on OA as a good mean for research output exploitation

• Still some disagreement as to the approach