1. KIOS Open Knowledge: A pillar for excellence
Dr. Demetrios Eliades
Research Associate

2. KIOS Center of Excellence
Over 100 researchers working in a multidisciplinary environment (~200 by 2023)
Over 70 externally funded research projects since 2008
Excellent research record
Expertise in technology transfer
Industrial collaborations
KIOS CoE: A strategic partnership between the University of Cyprus and Imperial College London
Publishing more than 100 papers, posters, presentations and code per year

3. KIOS CoE Vision
To become a world-class centre of excellence for multidisciplinary research and innovation in the area of intelligent systems and networks with emphasis on monitoring, control, management and security of critical infrastructures, for the benefit of the society and economy of Cyprus and Europe.

4. KIOS CoE Strategic Pillars

5. KIOS Open Knowledge
Openly disseminate published scientific results beyond the traditional academic dissemination channels
Ensure that these results achieve maximum visibility to other researchers
Motivate others to build on-top of our work

6. Portal Features
Link to projects: Connect to H2020 projects (for automating the Participant Portal reporting requirements)
Link with other document versions, research data, code, posters, presentations
Link to the KIOS GitHub code repository
Upload research data related to publications
Accessible to KIOS CoE researchers at Imperial
API to extract information for KPI monitoring
Altmetrics for each paper

7. Steps towards Open Knowledge
Preparation of Standard Operating Procedures
Open Access & Open Research Data
Data & Knowledge Management Plans
Established the Zenodo Community KIOS Open Knowledge Portal
KIOS Open Access Committee (3 Post-docs)
Information day for all KIOS Researchers
Clear step-by-step guidelines
Identified common mistakes and update procedures

8. The path from research to OA
Project Dissemination Plan
Publications (Green/Gold Open Access)
Research
Research Results
Protection of Intellectual Property needed?
Publication and Open Access Dissemination
KIOS Open Knowledge Policy
Project Data Management Plan
Research Data (Open, Restricted)

9. KIOS Open Access Policy
All Accepted Pre-prints of journals and conference publications produced after 1/1/2017 must be made available online as soon as they are accepted and not later than 6 months.
Pre-prints of journals/conference publications may be made available as soon as the paper is submitted for review.

10. KIOS Open Knowledge Portal

11. Outline of guidelines Login using ORCID account
Select publication type & upload document
Links to IEEE services for downloading OA versions
What if the paper is already under OA?
DOI: when to create or reuse existing one
e.g. from arXiv
Special OA requirements for IEEE, Springer etc
e.g. “The final publication is available at Springer via DOI]”.
Zenodo Communities: KIOS & Cyprus
H2020 Grant titles
Link to related documents
e.g. document identical on Lekythos, previous version of [IEEE]

12. Upload files

13. Basic Information

14. License, Communities, Funding

15. A KIOS article in OA

16. Altmetrics

17. Challenges ORCID accounts for all researchers
Train researchers in understanding who has the copyright for each document version
Handling problems:
Wrong document versions (which may violate copyright)
Wrong funding acknowledgement
Incorrect DOI
Missing note for IEEE, Springer etc
Contact researchers to request modifications
Large flow of papers

18. Key Ingredients for Success
Open Access to papers and research data is a key pillar for scientific excellence
Researchers need to have clear guidelines
Leadership must fully support OA
Researchers need to be trained
Curators need to have expertise in the different types of documents, licences, publisher guidelines