The Royal Society (2012) opine that: “a shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve … expanding the criteria used to evaluate research to give credit for useful data communication and novel ways of collaborating … [and] the development and use of new software tools to automate and simplify the creation and exploitation of datasets”. Likewise, research organisations such as the Research Council (UK) also advocate this shift.
Is this a commonly held opinion and what is the global perspective?
http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/
http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/
In France, it is mainly the CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - who is among the most important institutional promotors of open access to research. Actually, there are more than 70 open access repositories in France.
http://open-access.net/fileadmin/downloads/OAT13/OAT_frankreich-gruettemeier.pdf
Sorry, Nicholas, that my answer comes up so early in this thread, but your question made me think of the GCHQ as the most prominent research organisation in the UK (at least seen from outside) with a strong disposition to open access (for them, not for us) ;))
For Thailand I can cite from the Global Open Access Portal: ' Thai Digital Collection project is a cooperative open access initiative aiming to collect, theses, eBooks, and ejournal collections of research output from different universities in Thailand coordinated by Office of Information Technology for Development Studies, which has also taken up a Thai Union Catalogue project.'
I think you'll get valuable answers at the link below.
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/
In Germany, I would suggest the the DFG (German Research Society) as the most prominent institution as it is subject independent, government financed, and fully related to basic research (we additionally have the BMBF funding applied science). In terms of a DFG funding (which, in Germany, more or less is the non plus ultra for scientific projects), you must publish your results. Since some years the association explicitly supports open publications as far as those are listed within the DOAJ. Going a step further, the DFG even supports authors with funding for such open journals that take a publication fee.
However, what makes the whole "thing" a bit more complicated and far less promising (according to fostering the Open Science movement) is the acceptance of open publications in the research community: The reputation of a scientist (in Germany in far too many disciplines still fully depends on the (ISI) Impact factor of the journals in which the scientists' work has been published. Even though there is evidence that publishing in Open Journals has no negative effect on further citations (see e.g., http://www.jofde.ca/index.php/jde/article/view/661/1210), those journals often are not ranked in the citation indexes (some are too young, others never applied, ...). The IRRODL, e.g., took 13 years to get indexed in the SSCI. In the practice, this results in the ongoing preference of publications in closed but ranked journals. I guess, in Germany, some further time is required until open publications meet the same level of acceptance as closed (ranked) journals have. A very good support, however, could be provided by the ISI Web of Science and other Ranking Systems' producing associations.
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