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Open Access in France
Francis André
Jean-François Lutz
Mariette Naud
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STRUCTURE OF THE CIVIL
RESEARCH SYSTEM
President of the Republic
Prime Minister
Parliament
High Council for Science
& Technology
POLICY
Ministry of
Economy, Industry
and Employment
Other Ministries
Ministry of Higher
Education and
Research
OSEO
AGENCIES /
PROGRAMMES
High Council for
Research & Technology
ANR
Research
Foundations
Regional
Agencies
Programmes
R&D
PERFORMERS
Firms
Universities and other
Higher Education
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Research
Organisations
(CNRS, INSERM…)
EVALUATION
REFORMS IN UNIVERSITIES
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85 universities, 1,3 million students (2.3 in higher education)
University Act (2007) :
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Greater autonomy in recruiting staff and faculty
University board more open to external personalities
Budget autonomy, full ownership of real estate (optional)
Possibility of creating fundations
« Campus » Plan (2008)
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Renovation of university campuses
10 projects selected
Financed through interest revenues instead of subsidies
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SOME PUBLIC RESEARCH
ORANISATIONS
Total
turnover
2007 (bn€)
Main public
research institutes
Main fields of activities
CEA
Energy, ICT, Health,
Defence, Security
3,4
CNRS
All fields of basic research
2,8
INSERM
Biology, Medical,
Public Health
0,75
INRA
Agriculture, Food,
Environment
0,73
INRIA
ICT
0,18
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NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS BY
INSTITUTION TYPE AND SUBJECT
(2005)
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FRENCH PUBLICATIONS
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OA HISTORY (I)
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At the begining : a researchers’ initiative
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Role of Frank Laloe
CCSD created in 200O, HAL running in 2001
The research institutions involement
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Berlin declaration
2005 : Archimer
Role of the ANR
2007 : CLEO
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OA HISTORY (II)
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In Universities :
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1998, Early Cybertheses project : University of Lyon II, 1998
2004, REVEL
2004, Couperin Manifesto
Set up of many theses repositories
Many universities tend to join HAL
Funding agencies
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ANR statement, 2006
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OA HISTORY (III)
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What does the SNE (French publishers union) think ?
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Ok for OA
But ask to take disciplinary spectificities into account
Preserve a viable and sustainable economic model for STI
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A NATIONAL AGREEMENT TOWARDS
OPEN ARCHIVING
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Signed in 2006 for 2 years : national ly coordinated approach to open access to
scholarly communcation
Signed by CEA, CEMAGREF, CIRAD, CNRS, CPU (Universities), INRA, INRIA,
INSERM, Pasteur institute, IRD, Conférence des Grandes Ecoles = 80% of the
French research community
Raising awareness in the scientific community, sharing common directory of
laboratories and research institutions, sharing a core metadata set, linking local
systems and HAL, proving long term preservation, offering legal support to authors
Not renewed in 2008…
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FRENCH OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
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March 2010 : 168 existing open access journals
No embargo period
6 were referenced in the Thomson – JCR
Titles possibly missing
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A LARGE MAJORITY OF PUBLICLY
FUNDED JOURNALS
38
11
Commercial pub.
Public Research Inst.
95
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Scholarly Societies
A LARGE MAJORITY OF HSS
JOURNALS
7
45
116
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Science, Technology &
Medicine
Humanities & Social
Sciences
Economics - Law Political Sciences
ONE PLATFORM CENTRALIZES
MORE THAN HALF OF THE TITLES
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A LACK OF VISIBILITY IN
INTERNATIONAL TOOLS
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FRENCH OPEN ARCHIVES
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March 2010 : 68 repositories
Central, thematic, institutional repositories taken into account
No labotatory repositories
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VARIETY OF DOCUMENT TYPES
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HAL’S CENTRAL ROLE
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INSTITUTIONS
Percentage of institutions having set up an IR
Research organisms
15
20
Universities
61
Grandes ecoles
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STILL A LONG WAY TO GO…
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Raised initial enthusiasm among early advocates
Keen discernment from some decision-makers
Recent concern of universities for research exploitation potential
Mandates : decision still depending on institutions
Consensus on OA as a good mean for research output exploitation
Still some disagreement as to the approach
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