2. Enabling Open Scholarship Open Access to research Alma Swan Convenor, Enabling Open Scholarship Director, SPARC Europe Director, Key Perspectives Ltd Open Forum Europe, Brussels, 25 September 2012

3. Enabling Open Scholarship Open Access to research Freely available research literature at the time of publication Few – preferably no – restrictions on re-use of the text and the data within it supporting it

4. Enabling Open Scholarship Beneficiaries Academic researchers: access to research articles is a major problem Education community ‘General public’ Industry and commerce (innovative SMEs): 80% have access problems Industry and commerce (not particularly innovative companies, too)

5. Enabling Open Scholarship EU CIS studies

6. Enabling Open Scholarship What does this need? Research and technical infrastructure to support knowledge circulation Culture change Policy support Horizon 2020

7. Enabling Open Scholarship Thank you for listening a.swan@talk.com sparceurope@arl.org