The study aimed to:
1. Measure the uptake of open access publications by Horizon 2020 beneficiaries and compliance to the requirements set in Article 29.2 of the Horizon 2020 MGA.
2. Measure the uptake of the Open Research Data Pilot in Horizon 2020 and compliance to the requirements set in Article 29.3 of the Horizon 2020 MGA.
3. Provide the Commission advice and a process through which to monitor compliance to the policy in the future.
4. Assess the progress of the Horizon 2020 open access policy to date and provide lessons learned and recommendations for the future.
The team implemented a number of activities, in particular:
- Specified a set of indicators for assessing the H2020 open access to publications and data (ORD), its uptake and implementation, related methodologies for data collection, computation and analysis;
- Identified the most relevant and reliable data sources for each of indicators ensuring data quality including flexibility in the proposed approach to allow for a prompt adaptation of the indicators and related methodologies for data collection and computation if needed. (Tasks 1 and 2);
- Using state-of-the-art research metrics, open data and open technologies the study followed a comprehensive multi-stage approach to systematising and improving the monitoring activities of the OA policy in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe in terms of both content and process(Task 3).
- Formulated the intervention logic of the H2020 open access policy as regards to the objectives, expected impact, actors, expected cause-and-effect relationships and run two parallel assessment exercises in terms of efficiency and effectiveness of the H2020 open access policy (Task 4).