Introduction

The national scientific portal is managed by the National library of Luxembourg on behalf of the national consortium "Consortium Luxembourg", which is a member of Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN). More information and news are available on blog.findit.lu .

As of March 2021, DOAJ indexes 3 OA journals from Luxembourg. There is one OA Policy registered in ROARMAP. Four OA digital repositories are listed in OpenDOAR.

Enabling Environment

University of Luxembourg: The University of Luxembourg’s repository, ORBilu, was launched on 22 April 2013. Following the example set by the University of Liège, the University of Luxembourg adopted an institutional ID/OA mandate (immediate deposit – optional access).

National and Institutional Level Policies/Mandates

On the 14th of December 2015, Luxembourg’s research institutions all signed and adopted the following common principles on Open Access which provide an overarching framework for individual research institution policies on Open Access.

For projects (co-)funded by the FNR and accepted before 1 January 2017, no policy applies, though authors are recommended to make their publications accessible in Open Access.

For projects granted after 1 January 2017 but before 1 January 2021 (exception: monographs), the FNR requires for publications to be accessible in Open Access. The minimum requirement is for the Author Accepted Manuscript (aka. postprint) or the Version of Record (aka. publisher's version) to be deposited on a suitable OA repository respecting an embargo period of 6 months (or 12 months for social sciences and humanities). Should OA publications fees (i.e. Article Processing Charges) be required, the FNR reimburses through its OPEN ACCESS FUND up to 2500€ for OA journals, 1500€ for hybrid journals and 2000€ for monographs.

For projects accepted after 1 January 2021, FNR's policy aligns with the guidelines set by Plan S, the FNR being a member of cOAlition S. Publications must be made available in OA immediately upon publication (i.e. no embargo allowed) and authors must retain sufficient copyright allowing them to deposit their Author Accepted Manuscript in an open access repository under a public licence.

Events and Programs

●    OpenAIRE presented in 2018 some of the “Myths and Realities around Open Access” to researchers and research support staff alongside a presentation of the  FNR’s Open Access Fund. Slides are available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1189190

●     Open Science Forum - 14-16 November 2018 - 3 days of seminars, debates and practical sessions to make your research more visible, transparent and efficient. https://openscience2018.uni.lu and all presentations: https://zenodo.org/communities/luxosf2018/

●    A series of workshops aimed at early career-researchers (PhD candidates, post-doc) have been organised in several research institutions in 2017-2018. Slides are available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1115405

●     Luxembourg Open Science Forum, 2018-11-14, Luxembourg, Organized by OpenAIRE / University of Luxembourg Library, Type: luxembourg, openaire, conference, forum

●   Do you speak Open Science? Discover why you should!, 2017-10-26, Luxembourg, Organized by Jonathan England, Type: luxembourg, openaire, conference, livestream

●    OA & Scientific Social Networks in Luxembourg, 2013-10-22, Luxembourg, Organized by MyScienceWork and Luxembourg university library, Type: open, access, week

Publications

●     Kinsinger, C. R., J. Apffel, M. Baker, X. Bian, C. H. Borchers, R. Bradshaw, M. Y. Brusniak, D. W. Chan, E. W. Deutsch, B. Domon, J. Gorman, R. Grimm, W. Hancock, H. Hermjakob, D. Horn, C. Hunter, P. Kolar, H. J. Kraus, H. Langen, R. Linding, R. L. Moritz, G. S. Omenn, R. Orlando, A. Pandey, P. Ping, A. Rahbar, R. Rivers, S. L. Seymour, R. J. Simpson, D. Slotta, R. D. Smith, S. E. Stein, D. L. Tabb, D. Tagle, J. R. Yates III, and H. Rodriguez. 2011a. “Recommendations for Mass Spectrometry Data Quality Metrics for Open Access Data (Corollary to the Amsterdam Principles).” Proteomics - Clinical Applications 5(11–12):580–89. doi: 10.1002/prca.201100097.

●     Kinsinger, C. R., J. Apffel, M. Baker, X. Bian, C. H. Borchers, R. Bradshaw, M. Y. Brusniak, D. W. Chan, E. W. Deutsch, B. Domon, J. Gorman, R. Grimm, W. Hancock, H. Hermjakob, D. Horn, C. Hunter, P. Kolar, H. J. Kraus, H. Langen, R. Linding, R. L. Moritz, G. S. Omenn, R. Orlando, A. Pandey, P. Ping, A. Rahbar, R. Rivers, S. L. Seymour, R. J. Simpson, D. Slotta, R. D. Smith, S. E. Stein, D. L. Tabb, D. Tagle, J. R. Yates III, and H. Rodriguez. 2011b. “Recommendations for Mass Spectrometry Data Quality Metrics for Open Access Data (Corollary to the Amsterdam Principles).” Molecular and Cellular Proteomics 10(12). doi: 10.1074/mcp.O111.015446.

●     Kinsinger, C. R., J. Apffel, M. Baker, X. Bian, C. H. Borchers, R. Bradshaw, M. Y. Brusniak, D. W. Chan, E. W. Deutsch, B. Domon, J. Gorman, R. Grimm, W. Hancock, H. Hermjakob, D. Horn, C. Hunter, P. Kolar, H. J. Kraus, H. Langen, R. Linding, R. L. Moritz, G. S. Omenn, R. Orlando, A. Pandey, P. Ping, A. Rahbar, R. Rivers, S. L. Seymour, R. J. Simpson, D. Slotta, R. D. Smith, S. E. Stein, D. L. Tabb, D. Tagle, J. R. Yates, and H. Rodriguez. 2012a. “Recommendations for Mass Spectrometry Data Quality Metrics for Open Access Data (Corollary to the Amsterdam Principles).” Journal of Proteome Research 11(2):1412–19. doi: 10.1021/pr201071t.

●     Kinsinger, C. R., J. Apffel, M. Baker, X. Bian, C. H. Borchers, R. Bradshaw, M. Y. Brusniak, D. W. Chan, E. W. Deutsch, B. Domon, J. Gorman, R. Grimm, W. Hancock, H. Hermjakob, D. Horn, C. Hunter, P. Kolar, H. J. Kraus, H. Langen, R. Linding, R. L. Moritz, G. S. Omenn, R. Orlando, A. Pandey, P. Ping, A. Rahbar, R. Rivers, S. L. Seymour, R. J. Simpson, D. Slotta, R. D. Smith, S. E. Stein, D. L. Tabb, D. Tagle, J. R. Yates, and H. Rodriguez. 2012b. “Recommendations for Mass Spectrometry Data Quality Metrics for Open Access Data (Corollary to the Amsterdam Principles).” Proteomics 12(1):11–20. doi: 10.1002/pmic.201100562.

●     Nikolas, A., S. Sotiriou, P. Zervas, and D. G. Sampson. 2014. Open Access to Formal and Informal Learning: Theory and Practice the Open Discovery Space Portal: A Socially-Powered and Open Federated Infrastructure.

●     Schumann, G. J. P., and P. D. Bates. 2020. “Editorial: The Need for a High-Accuracy, Open-Access Global Digital Elevation Model.” Frontiers in Earth Science 8. doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.618194.