1. NRF Open Access Statement
Implications for grantees’ research output submissions and dissemination
In pursuit of OPENNESS: Scholarly Communication and Open Access (OA) issues at UNIZULU
17 March 2017

2. Definition: Open Science
Open Science represents a new approach to the scientific process based on cooperative work and new ways of diffusing knowledge by using digital technologies and new collaborative tools (European Commission, 2016b:33). The OECD defines Open Science as: “to make the primary outputs of publicly funded research results – publications and the research data – publicly accessible in digital format with no or minimal restriction” (OECD, 2015:7)

3. Global Research Council: Open Access Principles
Return on investments: Research councils encourage open access to all results from publicly funded research which originated from their funding
Responsibility of Research Councils: to raise their grantees’ awareness and educate (especially young) researchers regarding the importance, the benefits, and the various approaches towards open access
Research Funders: Provide support for their grantees, encourage and enable them in making their works openly accessible with suitable means, e.g. open access policies, addressing copyright, or dedicated open access funding, enabling technology and infrastructure

4. NRF OA Mandate - Open Access Policies: Global Outlook
Link: Statement on Open Access to Research Publications from the National Research Foundation (NRF)-Funded Research

6. A Closed Research Model
Source:

7. An Open Research Model

8. South Africa’s Global Knowledge Contribution
South Africa’s research output is less than 1% of the global research output
Most of this research output is publicly funded
Before open access publishing model most SA’s publicly funded research was locked in commercial databases

9. Open access to publications research data supporting publications
NRF OA Access Mandate: 2015
Open access to publications
research data supporting publications
Be deposited in a public access compliant repository designated by the NRF
Be managed to ensure long-term preservation
Be available for download, reading and analysis free of charge not later than 12 months after initial publication, and
Be reported in the Annual Progress Report
Further information check at

10. Conditions of Grants extract… Publications and Datasets

11. ORCID Registration for NRF Grantees: to link research outputs

12. Funded Publications Dissemination
All NRF Funded grantees (students and researchers) are required to disseminate their research outputs either through Green or Gold Open Access
Author's accepted manuscript of a journal article or published conference paper needs to be deposited into a repository with 12months of publishing
OA Journal articles
i.e. published through ASSAf’s
SciELO;
This also includes book chapters, and books etc.

13. NRF OA Statement Requirements: Research Outputs Dissemination
Open Access (journals, conference proceedings & books/book chapters)
Publisher PDFs/ HTMLversion free online (Internet)
Authors’ accepted
Manuscripts, if published
version is restricted
Pre-prints/Post-prints deposited in an OA institutional repository
Dataset free online (open format, easily readable by computers) – if embargoed metadata should be published and made available in an OA repository
Publicly funded data

14. Research Output Archiving & Dissemination - DOIs
PDFs
Journal articles, Conference proceedings, Books/book chapters (OA e-publications)
Applicable formats
e-Dataset supporting a publication
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Final peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts submitted to non-OA journals. These should be linked to the published version via URL when archived in repositories
OA Publishers, OA Journals, OJS systems, i.e. SciELO
NRF’s SADA repository
Institutional
repository

15. Reporting Research Outputs: Annual Progress Report
Publications metadata should include DOIs (Gold OA articles) provided on publisher databases/ Green OA articles archived on OA repositories handles are provided
Theses and Dissertations metadata handles are provided on OA repositories
Datasets metadata, DOIs are provided by publishers or by DataCite (NRF) and handles are also available from OA Repositories (Institutional or Subject based)

16. Streamlining the Publication and Research Data Lifecycle
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17. Data Management Plan (DMP)
Most research funders and journal publishers require data data management plans (DMP) for data sharing and re-use purposes
NRF will issue a DMP template in order to help researchers to create data management plans fitting its requirements and international data publishing guidelines
The DMP should describe how the project will conform to the NRF’s OA Mandate on dissemination and sharing of publicly funded research results

18. Digital Object Identifiers
Data Publication and Citation
NRF is a national DOI registry for datasets publishing
NRF grantees will be encouraged to register their datasets in order to get DOIs
Datasets can be curated/archived in the hosting institutional repository/ open access registered repository or NRF’s SADA repository
Datasets that are curated according to international standards and licensed through a DataCite usually get cited and get re-used by other researchers, or in collaboration with the owner, CC license is important

21. Registered SA Open Access Repositories
South Africa has 48 registered repositories on ROAR
NRF’s South African Data Archive (SADA) registered as a dataset repository on DataCite

24. NRF Funded ETDs http://ir.nrf.ac.za/handle/10907/237

26. Harvesting form HEIs’ Repositories
Deposit Institutionally, Harvest Centrally

30. Alternative Metrics & Citations: OA Repositories
There is an interesting relationship between altmetrics and open access. One could even refer to altmetrics as open metrics. This is firstly due to the fact that altmetrics data uses open sources. 

31. OA Repository Archiving: Alternative Metrics & Citations

32. References
European Commission (2016b). Open innovation, Open Science, open to the world. A vision for Europe.
Brussels: European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. DOI: / Available at:
Exploring the Relationship Between Open Science Policies and Research Practice/Levin et.al. DOI: /
Global Research Council (2013) Action Plan towards Open Access to Publications endorsed during the 2nd Annual Global Meeting, 27 – 29 May 2013, Berlin / Germany.
Do Scientists Define Openness?
OECD (2015). Making Open Science a Reality. (OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers, 25). Paris: OECD Publishing. Available at:
Registry of Open Access Repositories,

33. Thank you
Lazarus Matizirofa