Policy makers and funders, Arts and Humanities researchers and research communities, publishers and content providers, libraries, research administrators, EOSC

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods
Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities
Value added data products/services from open science
Training and skills for open science
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and FAIR data

Open Humanities, Responsible career assessment, Open access to monographs, FAIR data, FAIR Cultural Heritage data

The digital transformation of research opened up radically new potentials in innovation and dissemination in all scientific areas. Open Science is becoming the new normal modus operandi in them, also as increasingly central conditions of research funding. Still, in many cases, the dominant impact of STEM disciplines on the Open Science paradigm makes it uneasy for Arts and Humanities scholars to translate these values to their everyday research realities. Therefore, it is crucially important to establish a dedicated discourse and community practices around the open research culture as it makes sense in the Arts and Humanities disciplines. DARIAH is in a unique position to push forward to an open ecosystem that is organically growing out from real community practices and needs.

The presentation aims to outline discipline-specific, yet widely interoperable models of Open Science emerging from community practices of arts and humanities. It will be shown how DARIAH, a pan-European infrastructure for arts and humanities builds an open agenda for arts and humanities research that is firmly grounded in disciplinary realities. This includes:

• Providing a strong voice for arts and humanities research communities to be heard in European and national research policy debates, with special focus on career assessment
• Supporting our communities in navigating themselves in this whole new world and providing Open Science advocacy to them in all career stages and levels of expertise.
• Making arts and humanities’ contributions to Open Scholarship more visible both inside and outside the arts and humanities research communities.
• Facilitating access to Cultural Heritage data
• Building infrastructural components that enable open research practices across arts and humanities disciplines. 

Policy makers and funders, research communities, libraries, research support services, research-performing organisations, EOSC

Competence centers: models, integration and coordination, Sharing best practices and knowledge, Skills within the wider research context, Sustaining open science training: people, resources, governance

Data stewardship in Austria, postgraduate certificate data steward, data stewardship training, open science training

Data-driven research is growing exponentially. In order to support researchers with the proper management of their data, 500.000 data stewards will need to be trained in the EU alone. The first professional data stewards in Austria (e.g., at the TU Graz) had to acquire their skills and knowledge while “learning on the job”. As there is currently no dedicated training for data stewards in Austria, the Vienna University Library in cooperation with the FAIR Data Austria project currently develops the first postgraduate certificate for data stewards.

With regard to the tasks of data stewards (especially the support of researchers, information transfer and research data management (RDM) training, as well as requirements engineering), the course will include the basics of RDM, open science, data science, coding and teaching skills. The course will be practice-oriented and allow the students to learn not only from national and international experts on data stewardship and RDM but also benefit from transdisciplinary exchange among the participants themselves. The course will be offered part-time and in a hybrid format as a way for RPOs to upskill current research support staff as well as offer an alternative career path for researchers. Data Stewardship experts on the national and international level have given feedback on the preliminary curriculum in three workshop in July 2021.

Research institutions worldwide are developing data stewardship training to meet the growing demand. As the first formalized further education program in Austria, this lightning talk on the postgraduate certificate “Data Steward” from the Vienna University Library is sure to spark discussion on the topic of data stewardship training and contribute to the global efforts regarding Open Science education. The talk should serve as an example of possible collaborative efforts to implement high-quality certified data stewardship training on the national level.

Policy makers and funders, researchers, research Infrastructures and research communities, repository managers, publishers and content providers, libraries, research administrators, service providers and innovators, EOSC

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and FAIR data

Overlay journals ; Open repositories ; Interoperability ; OA Diamond journals

Episciences is a platform to publish diamond open access overlay journals.

It offers an alternative to the monolithic system of scientific publication dominated by private publishers. The ambition is to provide the scientific communities with the technical means to produce high quality journals, at an efficient cost, compliant by design with FAIR principles, by relying on open archives and repositories in general (arXiv ; Zenodo ; HAL ; CWI). The mechanism implemented is simple: the submission of an article to a journal is done by a prior deposit in an open archive. The article is freely accessible and therefore consultable by all, whether or not it is accepted by the journal.

Episciences contributes to the development of bibliodiversity by supporting an alternative path to the conventional model of scientific publication. The editorial process is based on a convergence of the stages of qualification, certification and dissemination and a system for recording the different versions of a document (the preprint reviewed, revised, accepted for publication, the new version, the published article are all "record of version"). Thus the value chain is no longer limited to the only reference version which is the published article ("version of record").

The platform is currently being integrated in the OpenAIRE service catalogue and the EOSC portal thanks to the OpenAIRE Nexus project.

Episciences is tightly coupled with open repositories and will soon leverage the COAR Notify project to enhance overlay journals’s interoperability with open repositories. Based on recommendations of Notify Project, the journals will be able to exchange notifications with open repositories. For instance authors will be able to submit their preprint to a journal right after their submission on a preprint server ; the preprint servers will be able to be notified when a preprint has been endorsed and published by a journal.

Academic authors; infrastructure and research communities; publishers and content providers; libraries

Scholarly communication; Open Access monographs; Library subscriptions; Membership models

Collective funding models, Open Science Infrastructure, Sustaining OSis, Sustainability

We present the work of Liverpool University Press and the Central European University Press who have, with assistance from the COPIM Project, launched an innovative revenue model this year to fund open access monographs. Building on existing library subscription models, their membership programmes give libraries access to highly-regarded backlist eBooks, with the membership fees then used to publish new frontlist monographs that will be OA for anyone in the world to read.

As the reality of Covid-19 dawned early in 2020 and campuses worldwide went into lockdown, publishers rushed to temporarily open their publications by removing paywalls. Usage of eBooks soared. It seems clear there is an opportunity to reassess scholarly monograph publishing. Given the current global library environment and budget pressures exacerbated by Covid, a consortial model of funding promises a cost-effective solution for OA that means no single institution bears a disproportionate burden. This model appeals to both those libraries that wish to pay for subscription-access content (i.e. traditional university acquisition models), and those libraries that are in a position to support OA initiatives. It brings many institutions together under one roof for an affordable route to open access books.

We call this transformational scheme Opening the Future and its aim is to make library funds go further: achieving the dual objectives of increasing library digital collections while also supporting open access. As a pilot with COPIM it is a small-scale trial for how small- to medium-sized traditional university presses might convert to a low-risk and sustainable OA model. COPIM is documenting these publisher case studies to create a free toolkit, codebase and roadmap for other presses considering going OA.

Policy makers and funders, researchers, research Infrastructures and research communities, repository managers, publishers and content providers, libraries, research administrators, service providers and innovators, EOSC

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods
Value added data products/services from open science
Training and skills for open science

Open science, Responsible Research and Innovation, Research Assessment, Promotion Review and Tenure Policies

This Lighting talk will analyse data on career pathways and institutional policies to investigate how institutional structures of recognition and reward shape the uptake of principles and practices of Open Science and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). The term Open Science refers to the movement to make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all levels of inquiring society. RRI is a broader concept incorporating Open Science (along with Science Education, Public Engagement, Governance, Gender, Ethics); it involves society and innovation in science and tries to align these outcomes with the values of society.

Our work seeks to add to our knowledge of how current institutional recognition and reward structures (especially as contained in promotion policies) shape open practices. Could it be that reward structures could be reshaped to foster increased adoption of these principles? To this end, this work involved two main activities:

• A qualitative study of institutional promotion policies to determine the extent to which a range of criteria relevant for Open Science and RRI practices are currently reflected.
• A survey of active researchers to assess their own opinions in relation to the current assessment criteria used in their own institutional promotion policies, as well as their own extent of uptake of Open Science/RRI, and reflections on what may further incentivise uptake.

This work will present the collected data and the general conclusions that can be brought together to draw broader conclusions. It will set recommendations on the role and potential of existing as well as new RRI and Open Science incentives, as well as a proposal for new indicators that both incentivise researchers in applying RRI and Open Science principles as well as help them further develop their careers.