Open Access and Open Data in Ireland: Embrace the complexity! Open Access -Open Action | 26 October 2016 | HRB Louise Farragher, Health Research Board

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Timeline of OA and OD in Ireland Launch of TARA and IRs 3rd level and research agencies 2007 Development of RIAN and launch in Launch of Lenus – National repository for health 2010 TCD National OpenAire desk 2011 Digital Repository of Ireland established - a national digital repository for Ireland's social and cultural data 2012 National Policy on Open Access launched by Minster Sean Sherlock - Ireland as Exemplar for Green Access and a nationally aligned OA policy 2012 Irish Social Science Data Archive transferred to UCD Library

Timeline (2) 2013 Horizon2020 Data Pilot announced 2013 RECODE Project (Policy Recommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe) launc PASTEUR4OA launched. FP7 funded project to improve alignment of European Open Access (to Publications) policies – Ireland (HRB) a key node and active participant 2014 TCD eDeposit Ireland –for voluntary Open Access legal deposit of publications from Irish publishers (including government departments) FOSTER Open Science initiative launched – FP7 funded project to Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research 2015 FOSTER Open Science 2 day Training organised by UCC & Repository Network Ireland 2015 Publication of Innovation 2020 National Science strategy by DJEI – includes actions referring to OA and Irish OA Infrastructure (RIAN Portal)

Timeline (3) 2016 PASTEUR4OA meeting in Brussels meeting included HRB, EPA and TCD participants – aimed at high level participants from RPOs and RFOs 2016 HRB 2-day Open Science event at RIA, with a wide range of participants 2016 Development of Open Research Ireland (ORI) - an initiative of Library Directors, repository managers and other senior librarians representing academic, public and national institutions, research bodies and funders. This initiative is a response to the HRB’s OS event, and a demonstration of commitment to the principles of open research Under the revised version of the 2017 work programme, the Open Research Data pilot has been extended to cover all the thematic areas of Horizon 2020

Timeline (4) 2016 HRB & DEGI to be joint National Points of Reference (NPR) on Scientific Information representing Ireland to the European Commission 2017 HRB FAIR Data Stewardship for Open Science - A 2-day workshop sponsored by the Health Research Board (HRB) and coordinated by the FAIR Data Team at the Dutch Techcentre for Life Science NL

Open Access in action Recent posts in Data and Scholarly Communications: – Digital Publishing and Data Management Librarian – Data Manager – Scholarly Communications and Research Support Officer – Research Data Specialist 25 October 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund hospital Waiting List data. NTPF announced yesterday it will make hospital waiting list data Open and Accessible - updated monthly and in CSV format. ( Source: IPH Open Access event) 25 October 2016: Dublin City Marathon data -participants are older, faster and more male! (Source: Silicon Republic & Irish Times)

Future challenges Embrace the complexity! We live in an evolving policy landscape on research data preservation and sharing & research publishing. OA Policy implementation has been slow in Ireland but is gaining momentum Open Access for publishing is still very much a live issue – there is a clear role for libraries in increasing deposit rates, and continuing to guide researchers through the complexity of Open Access requirements, publishing and Open Data deposit Libraries need to continue to forge links with Research Support and IT departments and be active in policy development and implementation at institutional, national and European level Better linkages with Open Data government (administrative data and data generated by state agencies) Be involved!