What is the Open Access Pilot about?

The European Commission (EC) and the European Research Council (ERC) want to ensure the widest possible dissemination and access to the published results of research funded by them. Therefore, the ‘Open Access Pilot‘ requires researchers to deposit these publications into an appropriate institutional or disciplinary repository. If such a repository is not available, researchers can use the OpenAIRE Orphan Repository.

Relating Open Access to European research results

All research builds on former work, and depends on scientists’ being able to access and share scientific information. Therefore, access to information and data is crucial to education and research, and more generally for the advancement of society. Open access (OA) provides free, online access to research literature: either by publishing in OA journals or books (‘Gold’ OA), or by archiving manuscripts published in subscription journals in an online repository ('Green' OA).

The EC expects researchers to deposit their publications or final manuscripts upon publication into an appropriate institutional or disciplinary repository and make their best efforts to ensure open access to these articles within 6 or 12 months after publication (six months after publication in the areas of : Energy, Environment (including Climate Change), Health, Information and Communication Technologies (Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics), Research Infrastructures (e-infrastructures), twelve months in the areas of Science in Society, Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities).

OpenAIRE in Hungary

OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) is a three-year project funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission. The main goals of OpenAIRE include to support researchers in complying with the FP7 Open Access Pilot through a European Helpdesk System; to support researchers in depositing their research publications in an institutional

or disciplinary repository; and to explore scientific data management services together with 5 disciplinary communities.

Hungarian universities and research institutes participate in more than 200 FP7 projects. Our duty, as a University Library managing an institutional repository, is to contact all researchers participating in these projects and offer them our help in complying with the ERC requirements and to advance open access publishing at our university, in particular, and in Hungary, in general. The presentation reports about reserachers’ willingness to publish open access, and about the negative and positive results of making researchers comply with FP7 publishing requirements. Furthermore, the presentation contains suggestions for other universities and institutions in Hungary on how to communicate about open access publishing and uploading research result into institutional repositories with researchers and other FP7 project participants.