RESOLUTION REGARDING THE APPROVAL OF THE GUIDELINES ON OPEN ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND DATA

Abstract

1. The Research Council of Lithuania (hereinafter – the Council) supports the policy of the European Union[1] regarding Open Access to the results of research supported by public funds, and the possibilities for the user to access such results not impeded by any financial, organisational, legal or technical barriers. 2. The Council approves the possibility to freely carry out text and data mining in Open Access publications and/or the related data, also approves the possibility to reuse scientific results employing automatic document content analysis tools to the extent that does not infringe any copyrights or the rights of any third parties. 3. The Council takes all the necessary measures to participate in the common Open Access movement active globally and in the European Union, and initiated and supported by UNESCO[2], the European Commission, the European Research Council[3], the Science Europe[4], European University Association[5], other organisations and movements, and contributes to the harmonisation of the requirements for researchers and research results in the European Union. 4. The Council seeks to advocate Open Access among policy makers, scientists and knowledge managers, the Council supports global, national, regional and institutional initiatives fostering Open Access. 5. The Council calls Lithuanian academic institutions, research infrastructures and other related organisation to approve the provisions of their policies on Open Access to research results, and the procedures for management and stewardship of such data. 6. In response to the provisions regarding Open Access of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020[6],the Council drew up the Guidelines on the Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data (hereinafter – the Guidelines).