FOCUS ON OPEN SCIENCE

CHAPTER XXXVIII: PARIS

Manon le Guennec, Paris Nanterre University

Manon le Guennec is an archivist-paleographer and library curator. She is deputy head of the Information system and research support Department at Paris Nanterre University Library. She works on the implementation of the university's open science policy regarding the openness of publications and data, the open science skills, and more broadly on access to knowledge. 

Véronique Champeil-Desplats, Paris Nanterre University

Véronique Champeil-Desplats is a Professor of Public Law, Deputy Vice Provost for Research at Paris Nanterre University. 

She has also several responsibilities as she is Vice President of Section 02 of the National Council of French Universities, Member of the Scientific Council of the library La Contemporaine, Member of the Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Chair “rights, violence, governance", President of the French Society of Legal Philosophy, Vice-President of the IVR (World Congress for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) and Director of an open access journal,  the Revue des droits de l'Homme.

Dr. Paul Ayris, University College London, UK

Dr Ayris is Pro-Vice-Provost (LCCOS – Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science) in UCL (University College London). He joined UCL in 1997.

Dr Ayris was the President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) 2010-14. He was Chair of the LERU (League of European Research Universities) INFO Community for 10 years, ending in 2020. He also chaired OAI12 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication. He is a member of the UUK High-Level Strategy Group on E-Resource purchasing for the Jisc community. He has served two terms of office as a member of the President’s and Provost’s Senior Management Team in UCL. In 2015, Dr Ayris launched UCL Press as the UK’s first fully Open Access University Press and in 2020 both the UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship and the UCL Research Institute for Collections.

Dr Ayris has a Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical History and publishes on English Reformation Studies. In 2019, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 

Presentation:

From Rhetoric to Practice – The Role of the UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship

This paper will use UCL (University College London) as a case study for the development of Open Science practice. The UCL Office for Open Science has developed from a library offering and now co-ordinated Open Science activity across the university. The paper will explain how the Office of Open Science works, how it is staffed and financed, and do a deep dive into one of the most successful of UCL’s Open Science developments, the creation of UCL Press.

Julien Roche, University of Lille - LIBER

Julien Roche served as Director of the libraries of the University of Lille – Sciences and Technologies from 2005 to 2018. Following a merger of Lille’s three universities he became, in March 2018, director of libraries at the newly enlarged University of Lille.

From 2010 to 2016, Julien served on LIBER’s Executive Board. He was also Chair of the LIBER Steering Committee on Reshaping the Research Library and led the Leadership Working Group, which is responsible for two leadership programs: the Emerging Leaders programme and the LIBER Journées programme. In July 2018, he was elected as LIBER Vice-President. In July 2022, he was approved as LIBER President.

Julien Roche also has several national responsibilities including co-chair of the “European and international” college of the French Open Science Committee since July 2018 and member of the scientific board of the French National Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education – ABES.

He authored more than 30 scientific publications in medieval history as well as in library and information science and has been an invited speaker in many conferences. 

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4000-2791

Presentation:

Presentation of the French National Strategy of Open Science 

Cécile Swiatek, Paris Nanterre University - ReiSO /MESRI

Cécile Swiatek is Director of the library of the University of Paris Nanterre, France. She is interested in accessible knowledge, information skills, pedagogy and digital innovation in higher education. Member of the Executive Board of the European league of research libraries (libereurope.eu) and SPARCEurope, former Secretary General of the French academic libraries association ADBU (adbu.fr, 2016-2021), she takes a curious and critical look at Open Education issues through her work at SPARCEurope, OERGlobal Francophone and with the UNESCO. From 2020 to 2022, she participated in the French EDUCAUSE delegation. Since 2021, she has been mandated as a permanent national expert on Open Educational Resources (OER) in the French International Open Science Network (ReiSo) for the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI).

https://fr.linkedin.com/in/cecileswiatek

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1066-4559

Presentation: 

Nanterre Experience 

As the dissemination of knowledge and scientific influence are structuring values of the université Paris Nanterre, the institution wished to adopt an open science policy in 2021, the year of publication of the French second National Plan for Open Science. The challenge for the university is to develop a political vision on this subject that is specific to its context, and to determine a strategy that is collectively supported by the departments concerned. 

On the organisational, networking and partnerships aspects:  this paper will display how the université Paris Nanterre has been developing strong transversality between decision-makers, research department and library services in order to multiply and structure collaborations, and then included them in its organisation in a sustainable manner. This paper will underline how the development of its open science strategy has also strengthened the collaboration between the institution and other actors in the region or among the institution's partners in the open science and FAIR research data fields, but also helped opening up concerted partnerships with external actors in complementary fields such as open educational resources and OpenData.

On the human resources and interservice collaborative aspects: this paper will showcase how designing an ambitious strategy and implementing coherent and collaborative services related to open science in a sustainable perspective of internal and external collaborations led the université Paris Nanterre to break down traditional frameworks of professional silos, and rethink traditional missions according to a bold and prospective vision.

Feel free to download the université brochure and discover the “Spirit” of Nanterre, “the university that makes things possible” :

 https://www.parisnanterre.fr/presentation/brochure-institutionnelle 

Nicolas Fressengeas, Lorraine University

Born in 1970 in France, Nicolas Fressengeas earned a PhD in physics in 1997, was granted the right to supervise PhDs in 2001 and became Full Professor in 2004 in the university of Metz, which merged in 2012 into the University of Lorraine. His research interests evolved from non-linear optics to optical materials, involving both experimental and theoretical work, with an emphasis on simulation and optimization in the last decade. He is teaching physics, digital physics, computer science, university pedagogy and Open Science.

From 2012 to 2017, he was an actor of the university teaching transition involving digital technologies to situate student learning at the heart of the teaching activity. Following, in 2017, he used this experience to create the applied physics master's degree in his university, alongside taking the head of his laboratory.

Finally, he was appointed university Open Science officer in 2019, which allowed him to take in charge the editorial and data policies, and to get involved in the boards of the national Open Science infrastructures (HAL, Recherche Data Gouv, Institute for Scientific and Technical Information), in national and European working groups on research assessment, as well as in the national council on research integrity. This position evolved in 2022 into the vice presidency of his university, in charge of the digital, data an open science policies.

Presentation

Open Science Strategy in Lorraine University with a Focus on Scholarly Edition, FAIR Data and Research Assessment

The Open Science strategy in the Université de Lorraine is a decade old but has been reinforced thanks to the publication of the two French National Plans for Open Science. The first edition of the plan was focusing on opening scholarly communication and FAIR data : these two objectives became central in Lorraine from 2019 up to now. The Open Science policy was designed by a steering committee involving all stakeholders : researchers, decision makers and data, computer and information professionals. It decided on an initial policy dedicated to building the necessary Open Science infrastructures, with two teams dedicated to helping researchers get their hands on them. 2022 saw the Paris Call on Research Assessment, a keystone in the scenery which aims at properly recognizing the Open Science new tasks in the researcher already pretty full basket, as well as bringing some coherence to the diverging incentives for researchers. The Université de Lorraine has dedicated one whole part of its Human Resources Strategy for Researchers label (HRS4R) to this crucial transition. The job is starting in Lorraine, but strong incentives have already been built nationally and the results are already starting to blossom.

Odile Hologne, INRAE

Odile Hologne is the Head of the department for Open Science of the French research institute for agriculture, food and environment – www.inrae.fr/en , supporting open science practices (publication, data and e-infrastructures, citizen sciences …) .

For several years she has been involved in the dissemination of scientific knowledge by being responsible for publishing or research libraries activities and since 2011 she has been involved in various initiatives for the sharing of research data whether at the international level (RDA , GOFAIR, etc.), European level (member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Open Research Europe article publication platform of the European Commission, coordination and participation in EOSC projects and working groups) or national level within the framework of the national committee for open science.  

Presentation

INRAE's Open Science Strategy and Data Governance Policy

For more many years INRAE has been engaged in the development of open science practices. Dealing with societal issues that affect agriculture, food and the environment, INRAE's core research areas require concerted action by many people, researchers across diverse disciplines and also citizens engagement. This means creating and using many kinds of knowledge, from beyond the borders of a single lab or country. To this end, INRAE has used open science to support its scientific strategy and strengthen its leadership position internationally. In 2020 a directorate for Open Science was created to help to define the open science and data governance policies of the institute and to accompany the transformation of researchers practices by developing services, tools, training ... in all the dimensions of open science : opening research processes and results. This talk will be focused on the process to elaborate the policies, their main goals and actions, especially to support FAIR data sharing.