SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 1 16/07/08 SELL 2009 France Country Report Grégory Colcanap & Catherine Etienne Consortium

France Country ReportCouperin

18-20/05/2009

1

SELL, Izmir, May 200916/07/08

SELL 2009SELL 2009France Country ReportFrance Country Report

Grégory Colcanap & Catherine EtienneGrégory Colcanap & Catherine EtienneConsortium CouperinConsortium Couperin


18-20/05/2009

2

SELL, Izmir, May 2009

Agenda

• Brief presentation of the consortium

• 2009 : a year of change in France ?– May 2008 : a governmental report on scientific information in France– March 2008 : creation of the Council of the book and its working groups– February 2009 : reorganization of the ministry of research and higher

education

Tomorrow : a new landscape, recombining actors ?


18-20/05/2009

3


Couperin brief presentation

A non profitable organization.Created in 1999 by 4 universities, ten years later 211 members (all french

universities, high schools, most of the research institutes)Activity (2007)• 114 resources negotiated• 1968 contracts signed• 164 members had at least one contract• 14 grouping orders (10 Abes, 3 universities, 1 CNRS)


18-20/05/2009

4



18-20/05/2009

5


Higher education : 1 326 000 students, 62 000 researchersCNRS :12 000 researchersOthers research institutes : ? researchers

Budget for scientific information in 2007Higher education : 56 M€CNRS : 15 M€Others research institutes : ?


18-20/05/2009

6


The Salençon's reportThis report describes the mechanisms of purchase scientific information in France.He gives a few recommandations :

• a legal obligation to publish in an open archive the results of a public research

• a clear and coherent policy for e-journals preservation

• same VAT for paper and electronic publications


18-20/05/2009

7


The Salençon's report

• a charter between editors and users including those points : open access, institutionnal repositories, transfort of title from an editor to another, preservation...

• to use professional negociators and centralize this activity

• establish a national licenses program

• to seek a coherence in the field a scientific information : structure of the ministry, role of the actors (Couperin, Abes, Inist), national projects of digitalization and edition (Persée, Cairn) and portals in humanities (HAL SHS, Adonis)

• create a digital scientific library for all the french research


18-20/05/2009

8


The Council of the bookCreated on March 2008 to answer one of the proposals of the report “Livre 2010”. The council of the book is a kind of “Parliament of the book”, created to initiate a public debate. It is an interprofessional and interdepartmental structure attached to the ministry of Culture and charged with discussing great transverse subjects.Five working groups have been created :- price of books- e-books- french books in foreign countries- studies on books and reading- national plan for digital librairies


18-20/05/2009

9


The Council of the book

The working group in charge of the plan to digital librairies is divided in 4 groups :• Acquisitions• Evaluation, usages and statistics• Preservation and perpetual access• Digitalization plans for librairies

At the end of 2009, the president (Bruno racine : also president of the BNF) will give his report and conclusions.


18-20/05/2009

10


The Council of the bookCouperin take part in 2 groups : acquisitions and evaluation. Groups are still working but a few points are established :Necessity of a national licensing program to build the french digital scientific

library.

Couperin identified two main types of resources and works to list them :- backfiles of e-journals for the majors editors- highly specialized ressources for researcher scattered in all the country


18-20/05/2009

11


National licenseCouperin's approach is based on the german model. The German Research Agency gives funds to 9 major academic and public

librairies, to buy resources for all the country.


18-20/05/2009

12


2007 a new law for universities : autonomy and responsibility, 2009 a new statut for teachers : more than three months of strike in the

french universities,

2009 a new organization of the ministry with a unified structure for scientific information


18-20/05/2009

13


Organize a national policyThe phases : • To select resources• To negotiate• To pay (central funding)• To catalog (national catalog)• Authentication (shibboleth and the research identity federation)• Preservation and perpetual access, • Usage statistics• To develop Open Archives


18-20/05/2009

14


Organize a national policyOrganize cooperation between actors : a big challenge• Couperin• CNRS-INIST (National Research Center)• INSERM (Research center for medicine)• Abes (Bibliographic National Agency)• Cines (Computer National Center)• BNF (French National Library)• ANR ? (National Research Agency)


18-20/05/2009

15


An advice

Two steps are importants for a promote a high level of research :First time : to build a system of quality in all the universities by reinforcing collaboration, mutualisation and cooperationSecond time : to promote excellence by the competition

Never do the second before the first

(from Jean-Claude Guédon, canadian researcher)


18-20/05/2009

16


2009Important projects

• A website devoted to promote open archives and a two days meeting http://www.couperin.org/archivesouvertes/

• Couperin shared ERMS project• A new website for the consortium

http://www.couperin.org/

Documents

SELL, Izmir, May 2009 France Country Report Couperin 18-20/05/2009 1 16/07/08 SELL 2009 France Country Report Grégory Colcanap & Catherine Etienne Consortium