Pierre Mounier (OpenEdition)

UP Redux 2018

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IN SSH

of research time dedicated to reading, annotating, writing academic literature

30 to 100%

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The digital

challengeManage the

transition to the

Open Science

model

Reconfigure the

publishing

landscape

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I think there’s an element of

desperation here

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/european-commission-considering-leap-open-access-publishing

The European

Commission

believes the

publishing

industry is

moving too

slowly

Leo Waaijers, Science,

2017

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DESIGNSTUDY

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Technical Mapping :

Diversity of sizes and

technologies

Users needs :

Across different types of

stakeholders

Business and Governance

model :

Long term strategy of the

infrastructure

ESFRI landscape study

European research

infrastructures

THE SITUATIONbefore OPERAS

In SSHIn STEM Opportunity

Fragmentation of the

publishing community, mostly

university led

Early Open Science adopters

in SSH

Scientific community lost

control to commercial

publishers

Reclaim control by uniting

researchers, libraries and

publishers in a common

effort

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IN A NUTSHELL

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IN THE RESEARCHLIFE CYCLE of SSH

OPERAS

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MAIN MISSIONOPERAS CLUSTER OF

CONTENTS journals, books, blogs.

IMPACT

TRUST

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Label

Label

Label

Label

Label

Label

Label

Integration of the

long tail into

Open Science

To provide a pan-European

infrastructure for open

scholarly communication

CONSORTIUM OF PLAYERSpublication platforms

and publishers.

SCALABILITY

OF QUALITY

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PARTNERSOPERASOPERAS is led by OpenEdition

(France)

Partners35Countries

Projects2 H2020

ConsortiumCore group Members

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CommunityOPERAS

Visitors/year

800 000 Publications

Authors

55 000 000Current volume

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UNITED WE STAND

The first Open Access

academic books community

:

300 publishers

The first Open Access

journals community :

1200 journals

The first academic

blogging community :

20 000 scholars

SSH Publishers

30 0

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... to deliver Open Science

services...

A federation of scholarly communication platforms...

Certify

Find

Activate

OpenEdition

OAPEN

Ubiquity Press

Perspectivia

UC Digitalis

Share Press

Hrcak

EKT e-publishing

Research for Society

Researchers and

socio-economic actors

Researchers, Funders

and Libraries

Certification

Discovery

Researchers and

LibrariesOPERASHub

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Coordinated by OPERASCore Group

AISACNR

CRUI Lexis

Napoli University Federico IIRoma Tre University

University Ca'Foscari Venice University of Milan

UniTo

Georg-August-University GöttingenKnowledge Unlatched

MWS

FCSHISCTE- IUL

University Coimbra

KU ResearchOLH

Open Books PublishersUbiquity Press

UCL Press

AEUP

SRCEUniversity Zadar

University of Liège

Huma-NumOpenEdition

C²DH

LingOAQOAM

HypothesisOAPEN

SciELO

IBL PAN

IBL PAN

EKT

Univ. Coimbra

OAPEN

Univ. Zadar

UCL press

MW S

Open Edition

UniTo

W G Plateforms

& servicesW G

Multilingualism

W G Standards

W G Tools

W G Advocacy

W G Best

practices

Core group

W G Business Models

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7A USERS’ NEEDS

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PROOF OF CONCEPT:

HIRMEOS19

◆OPERAS is a game changer in the scholarly communication system for all :

↘ Regains control of the scholarly communication system

↘ Engages deeply with societal challenges through open science

CONCLUSION

◆OPERAS community is highly mature and outstanding at international level :

↘ The first Open Access academic books community

↘ The first SSH Open Access journals community

↘ The first academic blogging community

◆OPERAS is the missing piece in the landscape serving researchers needs :

↘ Complement data infrastructures with publications

↘ Integrates a fully functional Open Science ecosystem

↘ Adresses the needs of all SSH disciplines

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THANK YOU22