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Open Science Strategy Building in Lithuania: administrator‘s perspective Rimantas Jankauskas. Legal framework. Law of Science and Studies , Article 51: Publicity of results of research activities
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Open ScienceStrategyBuildingin Lithuania: administrator‘sperspectiveRimantas Jankauskas
Legalframework • Law of ScienceandStudies, Article 51: Publicity of results of researchactivities • Seeking to guaranteethequality of researchfundedbystatebudget, transparency of theuse of fundingand to enhanceresearchprogress, allresults of researchmust be publiclyaccessible (oninternetorotherways), aslongas it doesnotcontradictlegalactsonprotection of intellectualproperty, commercialorstatesecrets. • Research Council of Lithuania: • GUIDELINES ON OPEN ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND DATA (2016)
Infrastructurewehave: • Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library eLABa; this information system includes e-documents, such as scientificpublications(PDB),theses and dissertations (ETD). The data stored in the eLABaisaccessible in international aggregated databases DART-Europe, DRIVER, NDLTD and others; • Inter-institutional research publication and research data archives: The Lithuanian humanities and social sciences research data archive LIDA, the full-text database Lituanistika, the national open access research data archive (MIDAS); • Institutionalresearch databases: Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University and MykolasRomeris University open access databases.
Incentivesfor (non)implementation of OS • Research Council project of „Qualificationrequirements“ (2019-03-26): • Not a singlementioningaboutpublishingin OS • Nomentioningabout Open Data • For STEM: imperative to havepublicationsin CA WoS, indicatingquartiles of journals (=“look at container, not contents”) • National depositories: metadata of papers, full texts only if does not contradict policy of journals
Ratio of OA journals with total No (WoS data) Only 9.1% in Open Access journals in 2018!
Why is it so? • Hierarchic traditions – academic merits are based on “prestige” • researcher needs “navigation tool” to get through growing silos of publications etc. • See “Qualification Requirements” with subsequences • No imperative for Open Data • No costs for publishing • Providing access to scientific information – administration’s business
There is no free lunch… • Till March 2021, subscription for databases is covered by the structural funds • VU co-funding: c.300,000 Eur/year • After 2021 – several options: • Increase institutional co-funding (at expense of research?) • Decrease number of subscriptions (researchers will be “happy”?) • Look for alternatives (will discuss during those days)
Alternative – shift from “reader pays” to “writer pays” • Who pays for Lithuanian authors? • Partner institutions • Research Council • University fund • Faculty funds • Included into budget of the project • Total sums - ???
Summing up… • Let’s count money! • Let’s discuss alternatives for the ways to ultimate goal: • Research excellence (information flow ecosystem) • Necessity for studies (knowledge transfer) • Economic impact • Social impact and outreach