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Ouverture des données publiques – Les exceptions au principe de gratuité sont-elles toutes légitimes ?

Posted on by Hans Dillaerts

Lors du premier Comité interministériel pour la modernisation de l’action publique (CIMAP), organisé le 18 décembre 2012, le Gouvernement a réaffirmé « le principe de gratuité de la réutilisation des données publiques » (la demande d’une redevance étant l’exception) et a souhaité « l’étendre, en concertation, aux collectivités, aux délégataires de service public, à la sphère sociale et aux autorités administratives indépendantes».

Il a décidé de « confier au SGMAP, en lien avec le ministère du budget, la mission d’évaluer les modèles économiques des redevances existantes, notamment en auditant les coûts et les recettes associés ».

M. Trojette, à qui a été confiée cette mission, recense 27 catégories de données soumises à redevances. Il constate que celles-ci produisent des revenus décroissants (35 millions d’euros en 2012, -33% par rapport à 2010) et que 90% de ces revenus se concentrent sur dix jeux de données, généralement vendus par des opérateurs dédiés à la production de données.

Le rapport apporte également des éclaircissements sur le cadre juridique applicable aux différentes formes de redevances. Il analyse également les raisons qui devraient conduire, à moyen terme, à l’extinction des modèles économiques fondés sur la vente de données brutes. »

URL : http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/rapports-publics/134000739-ouverture-des-donnees-publiques-les-exceptions-au-principe-de-gratuite-sont-elles

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SciELO 15 Years of Open Access an analytic…

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SciELO – 15 Years of Open Access: an analytic study on Open Access and scholarly communication :

« The 15 year path taken by the SciELO Program in bringing about the improvement of the academic journals which it indexes and publishes in Open Access – a path which it continues to follow to this day – is examined from various perspectives such as the rationale and objectives of the program, its origin in Brazil and expansion to 15 other countries, the results it has achieved, its quality control and production system, the technological platform and the impact that has been made by the Program. »

URL : http://www.scielo.org/php/level.php?component=42&item=29&lang=en

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Encouraging Digital Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities White…

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Encouraging Digital Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities: White Paper :

« This project, led by the University Press of North Georgia, and funded by a Digital Start-Up grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities focused on exploring the peer review process and increasing its usefulness to presses and scholars publishing digitally. By exploring this issues we have made recommendations for best practices in digital publishing, specifically for small academic presses. Through surveys and a workshop of key stakeholder groups (press directors, college administrators, humanities faculty, and library/technology center directors), we found a strong investment in the “gold standard” of double- or single-blind peer review. Working within the current academic publishing structure (including publishing in print) was a priority, even to presses and faculty members who were actively exploring digital publishing and open access models. On closer inspection, we realized that the various stakeholders valued the current peer review process for different reasons. And we found that the value of peer review goes beyond vetting the quality of scholarship and manuscript content. Based on these findings, we considered ways to obtain these benefits within the current academic structure through innovative peer review processes. At the same time, we looked for ways of offsetting potential risks associated with these alternative methods. We considered cost effective ways to accommodate the needs of the disparate constituencies involved in academic publishing while allowing room for digital publishing. While our findings focus primarily on small academic presses, they also have significant implications for the open access community. »

URL : http://ung.edu/college-of-arts-and-letters/encouraging-digital-publishing/

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Open Access monographs in the humanities and social sciences conference

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« As academics in most disciplines know, the unit cost of traditionally printed monographs is rising, while sales have been in steady decline. This is a particular problem in the humanities and social sciences, in which monographs are often the output of choice for scholars and the benchmark against which standing and academic performance are judged. Open Access (OA) is a model that has the potential to support a vibrant research environment, enabling non restricted access, widening readerships, facilitating collaboration and the creation of new ideas and increasing impact. Yet the problems inherent in moving to OA publishing for books seem so numerous, and so hard to solve, that even the Finch Report concluded that it couldn’t be insisted upon without further experimentation. Two organisations, leading experimentation, Jisc Collections and OAPEN, thought it was high time to bring together experts from across academia and publishing to explore open access as a means not just to secure the monograph’s future, but also to transform it, extending its reach and ‘making the scholarship better’. »

 URL : https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Documents/Reports/OA%20Monographs%20in%20HSS%20Conference%20Report%20Oct%202013.pdf

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Do developing countries profit from free books? Discovery and online usage in developed and developing countries compared

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Author : Ronald Snijder

For years, Open Access has been seen as a way to remove barriers to research in developing countries. In order to test this, an experiment was conducted to measure whether publishing academic books in Open Access has a positive effect on developing countries.

During a period of nine months the usage data of 180 books was recorded. Of those, a set of 43 titles was used as control group with restricted access. The rest was made fully accessible.

The data shows the digital divide between developing countries and developed countries: 70 percent of the discovery data and 73 percent of online usage data come from developed countries. Using statistical analysis, the experiment confirms that Open Access publishing enhances discovery and online usage in developing countries.

This strengthens the claims of the advocates of Open Access: researchers from the developing countries do benefit from free academic books.

URL : http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0016.103

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Open access clauses in publishers’ licenses current state…

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Open access clauses in publishers’ licenses: current state and lessons learned :

« In 2012, the Open Access Agreements and Licenses Task Force was launched by COAR to monitor, evaluate and promote the implementation of effective open access agreements and licenses. The task force has members from the repository, licensing and OA communities who share an interest in promoting sustainable and effective practices for open access. In 2012/2013 the task force undertook an environmental scan of the licensing language for article deposit into repositories. This report presents the result of the review and some lessons learned from organizations that have been successful in implementing OA clauses in publisher licenses. »

URL : http://www.coar-repositories.org/files/OA-Clauses-in-Publishers-Licenses.pdf