New reports on the European Open Science Cloud governance and on Open Access Publishing in Europe.

The Open Science Policy Platform has adopted consensual reports on the European Open Science Cloud governance and on Open Access Publishing in Europe. The report on EOSC includes recommendations on governance and financial schemes, while the report on Open Science Publishing gives recommendations on how to implement open access publishing in Europe by 2020.

Key takeaways on EOSC governance:

• The EOSC should rely on a multi-stakeholder governance that integrates both the national and European levels of authority.
• European countries and the European Commission should ensure long-term funding of the services that are needed to enable the integration of and access to the resources that can be federated in the EOSC.
• Different and innovative funding schemes should be investigated to support users to consume services from EOSC-certified providers that are approved based on a commonly-agreed European certification scheme.
• Raise awareness and communicate the benefits of the EOSC among decision makers, research and education bodies, private sector, industrial and citizen organisations.
• Develop open science and data skills among all the stakeholders.

Key takeaways on open science publishing:

• Stakeholder communities, member states and the European Commission should jointly assess and identify how the open access (OA) mandate should be achieved by 2020.
• Progress towards full OA must take into account how fast the publishing system is changing, and how scholarly communications are growing in variety.
• Publishing options should be made clear and easily accessible.
• Starting 2020, the European Commission must move toward a broader definition of OA that incorporates the full range of emerging formats and applications of scientific research output.

Read the full report on European Open Science Cloud and on Open Access Publishing.

Source: www.egi.eu