 Welcome everybody to this webinar, which is called the Stepping Up Open Science. Few housekeeping rules. This webinar is recorded. The question and answer will be recorded, but not disseminated. For the duration of the webinar, please keep your microphone and cameras off during the presentation. Make sure you add your name and your affiliation and briefly introduce yourself via chat or during the questions. Feel free to unmute and turn on the camera in the question and answer session. Thank you. Now we will start. I would like to introduce Natalia Manola, the CEO of Open AIR, and I am the Attorney and Engagement Officer. Natalia, the floor is yours. Yes, thank you Julia and a warm welcome to everyone. We appreciate you being here and taking the time to listen to what we're doing because I think it's changing for Julia. Because what we are doing is to us very important. We will try today to give a brief overview of the services that we have been developing and operating for the past 10 years and give you a glimpse on the way forward on the future. And in all that, we would like to thank you as collaborators, not just as users, because from the beginning Open AIR has been a participatory infrastructure and we would really like to extend and value your input. So I will start with a brief introduction and I think, you know, I will not go very strongly over it. It's about Open Science. So what we need to realize that now Open Science goes beyond Open Access to Publications and we know that institutions need to have new functions and organizational schemes to embrace it, but not just to embrace for the sake of embracing it, but just to make it work for them. And this is crucial and this is what we need to have in mind. So it's collaboration and interdisciplinarity, some of the things that we are seeking. So what are the objectives of every institution or of each institution? But at the end is, you know, we need to make it ours. Next slide, Julia. So just to give you all a brief overview, things have started in Europe from 2003 and the European Commission have started to implement things in 2007. I will not go over this in detail because this is, you know, we will share the slides so you can see it. But now we are at the point here after 2021, when the horizon Europe started, it has Open Science all over the place. So that means is that researchers and their affiliated institutions have to step up and help them implement it in a very efficient way. But also now we are in the process of where Open Science really enters the research ecosystem, especially with the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment. So how can Open Science be part of it? Next slide, Julia. So Open Science, just, you know, just to revisit some facts and truths before we go into Open Air. So as you've seen, Open Science is here to stay because it's the new way of doing science. Then Open Science is multifaceted, you know, even in Open Air that we have been operating services for 10 years, sometimes things are complex, they are interconnected, and it's many facets that we have to tackle it. Then what is true is that Open Science costs, it doesn't come for free. You know, there's free access, but it's not without cost. And what we need to realize is that we need to have, from the institutional point of view, long-term investments. Not huge investments, but continuous and, you know, constant advances over time. Why does the institution for Open Air for us is crucial? Why? Because it's the one that is supporting researchers at where research takes place. And this is very, very important. And then what we see and what you will see throughout the presentation and the services is that Open Science requires a holistic approach. You can't have a tool or a service just, you know, to do something without continuing on it. So we need to the tools, the incentives, the assessments to become a win-win for all. And then what we need to realize is that, of course, researchers and the holy grail of putting researchers and then users in the center is there. But we need to think also in institutions, and as I said before, with the functional and organizational changes that other actors like librarians, like research managers, vice-rectors, teams need to be involved. And this is very important. Next slide. Now, what we need to think also about is that Open Science, why is it important? Because, you know, everything is digital, everything is big, everything is connected. And as you will see now in the slide is that we have this research life cycle from planning to discovering, processing, publishing, archiving and assessing. And everything is connected. So we plan in order to be able to discover, in order to be able to share how we publish and in order to be assessed. We discover previous results and then we use in our planning and we use in our processing to derive new data. So everything now is interconnected. And this is, you know, this is the difficulty of it, but also the magic of it. Next slide. Now, what are we doing here? So, and why do the institutions, you know, are important? Because we all know that scholarly communication and an open air as a scholarly communication infrastructure, we are very well aware of the processes. So the challenge here is to go from a closed and traditional scholarly communication to an open scholarly communication system. And what does this mean? You know, what are the stakes here? The transition to an open ecosystem that will support diversity, equity and inclusion. And these are not just some words, it's something that we need to take in mind because we have big universities, small universities, big labs, small labs, big data, you know, long tail of science of data. So we need to somehow get this on board. And then of course, it's the ownership and the cost. So who owns and controls the processes? It's not about the data or the publications, but about the processes. How can we become managers from what we do? And what are the costs? Because the costs, again, are non-negligible. So in all of this, so I'm just putting the context and we are presenting open air. So open air is a non-profit organization. It's called Open Air Amke, which is a non-profit civil organization was established in 2018. We have 15 members from 34 countries. And the power that we have is a network of experts, the National Open Access Desk. So they have been in operations from the beginning when we started back in 2009. And we have services that Julia will be presenting. So this is just a few words about us. And then what we would like to invite is to read our strategy. You can find it on the web. We have the strategy for 2325. And it shows our commitment to facilitate open science. But by our commitment, it's the members. It's the 15 members. And the more members that we are expecting to join Open Air to commit to open science. And as you will see on the right side of the slide, we have three action lines. One is services, the other is training, and the other is policies. And this is embracing this. This is what we are trying to present through our services. And this is what we will do. And probably we will refine as things are emerging in the next years. Julia, so going, so this was just a preamble. I think, you know, most of you were aware of these things about open science. It's just the message that I want to get through is that this is something that we need to embrace at the institutional level. This is something that we need to embrace in a way that fits our own needs because different institutions have different needs. And what we can do in Open Air is to support you and to work together with you because in an area of this complexity, what we believe is that are only through co-design and co-development, we can take this forward. So what we have identified and where we can support you in this is six steps towards open science. First of all, is adopting an open science policy. Some of you do have a policy. Some of you need to adjust this policy to the new things that are coming along. Some of you don't have a policy. And you know, how can you start making this? This is where through our consulting and through the National Open Access Desks and through our training, we can guide you through. Second, you can link your repository, Open Action Journal, or Cree Systems through Open Air and the Open Air Graph to the world. You can publish. You can support your researchers to publish in the open services to do that. You can discover and share. I would know barriers. So how can you connect your things, your content with others? And how can you let people discover it? Then most importantly for some of the research managers is how to monitor research outcomes, open science policy uptake and impact. And this is where you can do it through the open science and the openness of the processes. And last but not least, this is, you know, something that is all over the place is how to train students, research and staff to perform open science, you know, in this digital, interconnected world, how, you know, what are the most important things. And this is where what we focus on on this webinar. So now I think I will pass on the button to Julia. Hi, Julia. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Natalia. Welcome, everybody. I am the outreach and engagement officer and I will speak about more focusing on the services. So to increase the visibility and the impact of the research that is produced in your organization, we compile a series of services that can support you in making your research more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. So we, as Natalia said, we are co-designing, so we want always your feedback and we customize services on base, on your needs. The backbone service of OpenAir is called OpenAir Graph, which is a collection of different entities, meaning data from different kinds of data sources, publication, ID for authors or institutions that are not just a poorly collection of little dots, but they are linked together to produce some data that can be easily accessible and manageable from the form that the user can do. For instance, for researchers to explore the data and the link or to deposit their own research from the monitor system, so from funders and institutions to understand and track what are the policies and several services that I'm going to show you in a few. So OpenAir is a systematic structure, it's a service of service present in the European Open Science Cloud, IOSC. So the data that are provided and are compliant to the OpenAir guidelines will feed this graph that can be also directly feed by resources from publication, data source, database, or other research product, and can be discovered by our service like Explorer or Connect, Monitor and Assessed. So now what I'm going to show you is all these services in which kind of phases of the research life cycle they can enter and then how you can support and facilitate the uptake of open science from researchers and the research staff during different phases of research. Let's start with the plan. Argos is a software for data management tool that is also one of the services that Science Europe, one of the biggest coalition of founders, is suggesting and we know that the founders have a mandatory request to have a data management plan. But for the institutional level, what kind of information you can get from it? The data management plan is a template of form, so we provide a template in which the researchers have to describe where they collect the data, how, so which kind of facilities they are using, what kind of ethics there is behind, what kind of licensing for reuse they have, and how much how many data they are reusing or they plan to create to develop during a project. So you have all this information that are called the metadata that can be directly provided by the researchers. And this is fundamental because everything will be already transparent and open and you can get information about how much facilities, what is the use of facilities that the researchers are doing during their project. What we can provide with Argos is a cloud system in which the researchers can enter in a living document all their data, so they can update whenever they want. It's machine actionable, so you don't have to be worried about the interoperability of the system. Otherwise, we can give you a local installation from your organization, so the people have just to go directly to your website. Or another option is to have a white library installation for you for Argos, in which you can personalize, you can ask personalized support and training from us. So you get all these possibilities, so you can have your own template, but you can also have their access to the template that are already discussed from funders from our site, so they are already validated. You have a DMP, a data management plan that is already fair. Everything is automatic. All the contents are reached because they get access to the data that are already present in the research graph, and you can have a living document and you can track the indicators from the monitor. We have already some interesting case studies that you can check in our website. Let's proceed to the discovering and collect. So I already mentioned Explorer, which is the main services to see basically all the library, all the contents that is in provided. But what else, if I have to search for something specific, I will choose some specific shelf. For instance, if I'm interested in philosophy, I will go to the section that is labeled philosophy. So basically Connect is a search engine that can target a specific gateway. For instance, we can select together some repositories that are of interest for you, the journals of your choice, the data that are specific from funders that are from your institution. We help by using our artificial intelligence and automatic mechanism that is helping you to find and to collect the data sources that are more of interest for your community. You can have a specific for your repository or for some field, or you can make the most from university alliances. So we have, for instance, several repositories that are from university alliances together in a network. One of these examples is Aurora that you can see here. And the managers, we get an admin dashboard in which several people can contribute. You can decide who, mainly repository creator or someone that is more related to digital libraries. And you will be part of our community of creators. And the users on the other side can browse through publication, but not only also research data, research software and any kind of research product that is produced or we can find in the collection based on your interest input. You can also find the right place to deposit if the repository are compliant to open AIR. And if everything is in Zenodum, and you can always link. So these are some case studies, Utopia and Aurora are two of our research alliance already in Connect. And we have also specific institute that is called Nomad, in which we have topic related entries. Sharing data is the most difficult things for sensitive data for the worrying of which kind of data are shared. And we have Amnesia as a service provided by the data research center. This is a software that you can download for statistically guarantees that you cannot link any output from the original data. And this is useful if you want to be compliant with the GDPR guidelines, personalized data and sensitive data. We have a webinar coming soon in which you can go in depth on this service. I will move on to how to create the Diamond open access journal. Episcience is offered by our partner in France. And this is helping you to having an overlay journal on top of open access repositories, for instance, archives or Zenodum. The research can publish directly the preprint. And through this system, they can also manage an editorial board that can be chosen by the people who want to run this journal. And you can also invite reviewers to give feedback and to provide a peer review to the publication. So you get a manuscript that is fully peer reviewed with no cost. And you will have a toy. It will be harvested by an open-air visible on explore and eventually also in connect and everything will be open and free. So this is everything that you can get. It's interesting also that all the metadata that are used from our services will be already linked and indexed in the open-air services. So everything is connected. The nodo is the most popular of our services that is offered by CERN. Because nowadays we don't publish just the manuscript or book, but we also need a place where we can publish data sets and other kind of research product. So you get a toy. You can be cited. Your researchers can be cited and your institution can be mentioned because everything that is shared has to provide the metadata that are based on that site scheme, which is the standard way to be fair or to help the researcher to be fair. And it's just a simple form that you have to compile, you describe the data, you publish the data in two clicks and you get a toy that can be cited and exported. So it's easy to use. We have a GitHub integration so you can also publish softwares and you can create your own communities to collect the research in the same place from for instance the same institutes or from the same department up to your policies. Archive. We have one service provided that is the gateway also for EOSC. It helps you to expose institutional content to EOSC and to the world in just one stop shop place. It's more than an archive because behind there are several services of OpenAir that are helping you to do an automating validation of your metadata that are compliant to the OpenAir guidelines but also to the fair principle. You can get information about the downloads of the data so you can also see on top not only the download of the publication that are fully available but also about the data used from your repository and we have also the duplication and curation of the data that you can see in your metadata updates notification. So we can show you the hidden value of your repository in one service. You will get a dashboard as a admin. You can validate your data sources from a literature data crisis system. You can have also a fair assessment that at the moment is in bed but it's about to be released in production. You will have a metadata enrichment because all the information that are coming from the OpenAir Graph will be part of this dashboard, content dashboard. You will receive a notification, you can browse on history, you can get a statistic and everything that is related to how OpenScience is advancing also the level of your repositories. So now the fun part, how you can track and assess the OpenScience activities inside your institution. We have created a monitor dashboard that is customized based on your needs. It can be public if you want to be transparent in the evaluation and assessment and you want to showcase what you are doing. It can be restricted for the internal members who are performing the evaluation or can be private in the moment that we are doing the setup. We have different indicators that we can show you that are the research output. So you will have information about the publication, data set, software. If your university is producing more interdisciplinarity work or it's much more specific or expert in some field of science or if some field of science are more open than others. So you will get this kind of information. You will be also informed about the fairness of your production, the access right, the open access rules which are the journals that are most preferred by your researchers. How much expenses are you investing in article processing charges for open access journal? How much compliant you are with the plan S principles? Then you will have also information about the networking of your researchers. So which kind of universities internal or external are more collaborating with your institution? You can also check the impact with some indicators that we are also still developing. So we are always on the track of reaching these kind of indicators and everything can be connected to grants and projects. So you will get all this information in one single dashboard. So it's customized. We have predefined indicators but you can have also different breakdown. Everything can be download for any kind of report that you need to do from your institution. And of course you can customize indicators that should be showed or not. We have several institutions that are already part of our dashboard. We have not only universities but also research institutions and a cooperative research organization. So from Czech Republic to Finland, from Italy to international cooperation, Germany, Portugal, we have several possibilities to show you and to give you a demo. And finally open APC is another service that is helping you to assess the cost of the publication that your researchers are performing. It's offered by the University of Bielfield. You can have a global data set by measuring your APC cost but we are not just collecting the cost information. We are also enriching this kind of information with an in-depth analysis and give you also the metadata that are coming from the graph to give you a much broader perspective of the cost that you are spending in the article processing charges or book processing charges and so on. At the end you will have this three map visualization that you can download, export, you can work on this data to analyze, to produce all the research on top. And we give you all the ownership, it's yours. And it's for you just easy to use. These are all the institutional universities that are already part of our case studies. You can visit also the three maps in the dedicated website that you can see down my screen. But the services are nothing if there is not the skills or the training for using it. What OPNL does is that we have a network very strong in training to obscure your student and the staff. We also provide several material in forms of guidelines, guides, fact sheets, tutorials and podcasts that you can visit in our YouTube and in our webpage. We offer direct help with our helpdesk system. We create bootcamp to train your staff to give training in open science. And we create an open platform that is hosting a community and creating open courses. This is the platform that is already used or chosen by EOSC. So it will be populated by the training directly from EOSC. But you will find also materials from our open science community and the training on research data management plan because we know that not all the national and the universities are in the same stage. We offer learning path and badging mechanism. And we are giving the possibility of having a long-term access to this up-to-date material. So how we can start our collaboration? You can contact us, express your needs, say what kind of services you are not thinking to develop but you may need or you are in need of recent training. And we will provide the services that are more tailored made for you. Then we make it official. So we write all the parts of our agreement in a personalized one-to-one call. And then we will do a public lunch. So we will have dissemination of your activities in open science. The fact that you are really stepping up open science in your universities. All the services are coming for free till the end of the OpenERNAXUS project which we learned in this year. However, some of these services can have a subscription fee, not all of them. But this fee can be waived based on the founder's funding opportunities or no-profit pricing. Also, all the members that are part of OpenERNAXUNC or want to be part of OpenERNAXUS, will have a special discount. And in any case, our services are for co-designing and co-developing with your needs. So if there are already some questions, we can give the floor.