#  Introduction

The present document constitutes the first issue of Deliverable D8.3 “ECO-
Binder Data Management Plan” in the framework of the Project titled
“Development of insulating concrete systems based on novel low CO  2  binders
for a new family of eco-innovative, durable and standardized energy efficient
envelope components” (Project Acronym: ECOBinder; Grant Agreement No.:
637138).

##  Purpose of the document

A novelty in Horizon 2020 is the Open Research Data Pilot which aims to
improve and maximize access to and re-use of research data generated by
projects.

In Horizon 2020 a limited and flexible pilot action on open access to research
data will be implemented (see guidance on Open Access to Scientific
Publications and Research Data in Horizon 2020). Participating projects will
be required to develop a Data Management Plan (DMP), in which they will
specify what data will be open.

Data Management Plan (DMP) details what data the project will generate,
whether and how it will be exploited or made accessible for verification and
re-use, and how it will be curated and preserved.

In this framework a background document has been prepared in order to describe
the open access issues associated to the Eco-Binder project.

This document from one side provides guidelines to maximise the spread of the
Eco-binder project results, on the other side provides management assurance
framework and processes that fulfil the data management policy according to
the confidentiality issues.

Within this document the following aspects are reported:

 Rules set out for control in order to ensure quality of project activities;
 effectively/efficiently manage the material/data generated within the
project;  how data will be collected, processed, stored and managed.

The Data Management Plan (DMP) is not a fixed document but it will be updated
during the whole project by the coordinator.

Moreover, the DMP will be updated during the project to fine-tune it to the
data generated and the uses identified by the Consortium since not all data or
potential uses are clear from the beginning.

New versions of the DMP should be created whenever important changes to the
project occur due to inclusion of new data sets, changes in consortium
policies or external factors.

#  Open Access and the Data Management Plan

##  Overview on Open Access  1

Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs
without restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright
agreements. Open Access includes the outputs that scholars normally give away
for free for publication; it includes peer-reviewed journal articles,
conference papers and datasets of various kinds.

Some advantages of the Open Access are:

  * ACCESS CAN BE GREATLY IMPROVED 

  

Access to knowledge, information, and data is essential in higher education
and research; and more generally, for sustained progress in society. Improved
access is the basis for the transfer of knowledge (teaching), knowledge
generation (research), and knowledge valorisation (civil society).

  * INCREASED VISIBILITY AND HIGHER CITATION RATES 

  

Open Access articles are much more widely read than those which are not freely
available on the Internet. Webwide availability leads to increased use which,
in turn, raises citation rates, a fact that has been empirically supported by
several studies. Depending on the field in question, Open Access articles
achieve up to three times higher citation rates and they are cited much sooner

  * FREE ACCESS TO INFORMATION 

  

Open Access content is freely available worldwide, thus enabling people from
poorer countries to access and utilise scientific knowledge and information
which they would not otherwise be able to afford.

Open Access to data generated in projects funded by the European Commission is
key to lower barriers to accessing publicly-funded research, as well as to
demonstrate and share the potential of research activities supported with the
help of public funding (and finally, of the European citizens).

##  Data Management Plan

This DMP deliverable is prepared according to the “ _**Guidelines on Data
Management in Horizon 2020** _ “.

References to research data management are included in Article 29.2 and 29.3
of the Model Grant Agreement (article applied to all projects participating in
the Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 2020):

###  Article 29.2: Open access to scientific publications

_Each beneficiary must ensure open access (free of charge, online access for
any user) to all peer-reviewed scientific publications relating to its
results._

_In particular, it must:_

  1. _as soon as possible and at the latest on publication, deposit a machine-readable electronic copy of the published version or final peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication in a repository for scientific publications;_

  

  

_Moreover, the beneficiary must aim to deposit at the same time the research
data needed to validate the results presented in the deposited scientific
publications._

  2. _ensure open access to the deposited publication — via the repository — at the latest:_

    1. _on publication, if an electronic version is available for free via the publisher, or_

  

    2. _within six months of publication (twelve months for publications in the social sciences and humanities) in any other case._

  
  

  

  3. _ensure open access — via the repository — to the bibliographic metadata that identify the deposited publication._

  

  

_The bibliographic metadata must be in a standard format and must include all
of the following:_

  * _the terms ["European Union (EU)" and "Horizon 2020"]["Euratom" and Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018"];_ \- _the name of the action, acronym and grant number;_

  

  * _the publication date, and length of embargo period if applicable, and_ \- _a persistent identifier._

  

###  Article 29.3: open access to research data

_Regarding the digital research data generated in the action (‘data’), the
beneficiaries must:_

  4. _deposit in a research data repository and take measures to make it possible for third parties to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate — free of charge for any user — the following:_

    1. _the data, including associated metadata, needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications as soon as possible;_

  

    2. _other data, including associated metadata, as specified and within the deadlines laid down in the data management plan (see Annex I);_

  
  

  

  5. _provide information — via the repository — about tools and instruments at the disposal of the beneficiaries and necessary for validating the results (and — where possible — provide the tools and instruments themselves)._

  

  

##  Dissemination and Communication strategy

The DMP and the actions derived are part of the overall ECO-Binder
Dissemination and Communication strategy, which will be included into the
Initial, Interim and Final Plan for Use and Exploitation of Foreground (PUEF)
as well as into the Final Dissemination Report.  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

RESEARCH

RESULTS

</th>  
<th>

Decision

on IP

protection

(

patentig

or

other

forms

of

protection

)

Dissemination

:

Research

results

publicaiton

Exploitation

:

Research

results

commercialization

</th>  
<th>

Not

open

access

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<th>

Open

access

</th>  
<th>

‘Green’ open

access

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<th>

‘Gold’ open

access

</th> </tr> </table>

**Figure 1: Research results in the context of dissemination and
exploitation**

As described in the Technical Annex, **all dissemination actions in the
project will pass through the DESB (Dissemination, Exploitation and
Standardisation Board)** .

The DESB is a _“consultant project body that shall assist and support the
coordinator and the SC in matter of exploitation of results issues and
disagreement resolution. It constitutes the central office co-ordinating all
contacts towards stakeholder communities and other dissemination and
communication target audiences, including the media (web, TV, newsletters,
etc.).[…] [The DESB]_ _will report to the SC_ (Steering Committee) _on issues
regarding project strategy relative to exploitation, dissemination and
standardisation, and they will be responsible to propose activities aiming at
maximizing the impact of the project. Among these activities, the DESB will
also evaluate scientific papers to be submitted in line with confidentiality
issues […] “_ .

The ECO-Binder DESB will therefore support the coordinator and the
Dissemination Task Leader in the implementation of actions described in the
Data Management Plan.

##  Position of the project

The cement market is a super-conservative market with highly regulated cement
and concrete products, where leakage of relevant information during the R&D
phase can severely affect the exploitation of results. To this respect, it is
worth recalling a statement already included in the Technical Annex referring
to publishing of project information (including research data).

“[…] _it is worth mentioning that permission to publish any information
arising from the project will need to be submitted to the Management Board
which will ask advice to the Exploitation Committee to ensure that sensitive
material is not disclosed. In the first half of the project, dissemination of
the information about the project will remain limited to the distribution of
the publishable abstracts. This is in order not to endanger the commercial
interests of the industrial partners and the possible patenting of the ideas._
”

In addition to that, the Consortium believes that all of the data on the
mechanical, physical and chemical performance of the new binders must be kept
confidential at least until the end of the project, for the following reasons:

  1. Cement performance test methods as used today were developed for Ordinary Portland cements and for Portland composite cements. The objective of such methods is to make a prediction of the long term behavior of cements based on a short term measurement. Many of the methods applied today to characterize the performance of such cements have been in use for many decades. Despite that, they do not always reliably predict the long term behavior of classical cements under ambient conditions. None of these cement test methods was conceived to characterize BYF-type cements. Consequently, they are not yet validated for BYF cements. The ECO-Binder project will help us validate the procedures. This will be done in the first project phase, but it is definitely too early yet to say exactly when they will be considered to be validated. This will induce some delay. It is however absolutely necessary that the procedures be validated before we use them to generate data to be published. As they will be used for future standardization activities, it is essential that the data generated and shared with the public, and in particular with standardization bodies, be meaningful and correct. Any data inconsistencies will seriously endanger our ultimate goal of standardizing BYF type cements for a large range of applications, a goal essential for successful commercialization of these new, sustainable cements. 

  

  2. As soon as we have validated the methods, these methods themselves can – in principle – be put into the data base; but the results of applying the test methods to the BYF binders that will be tested will still have to be kept confidential for at least 18 months in case they need to be used to file patent applications. This may well be the case for many of the key data; however, it is not yet possible to say which data will be needed 

  

  

for IP related activities and when these data will be considered non-
confidential. A decision will be made (for each data set) by the end of the
project.

Detail of this is shown in the list of expected project results (Chapter 3.3).

#  Research Data

'Research data' refers to information, in particular facts or numbers,
collected to be examined and considered and as a basis for reasoning,
discussion, or calculation. In a research context, examples of data include
statistics, results of experiments, measurements, observations resulting from
fieldwork, survey results, interview recordings and images. The focus is on
research data that is available in digital form.

##  Key principles for open access to research data  2

As indicated in Guidelines on Data Management in Horizon 2020 (European
Commission, Research & Innovation, 2013), scientific research data should be
easily:  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

  1. DISCOVERABLE 

  

  2. ACCESSIBLE 

  

  3. ASSESSABLE and INTELLIGIBLE 

  

  4. USEABLE beyond the original purpose for which it was collected 

  

  

</th>  
<th>

The data and associated software produced and/or used in the project should be
discoverable (and readily located), identifiable by means of a standard
identification mechanism (e.g. Digital Object Identifier).

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<th>

Information about the modalities, scope, licenses (e.g. licencing framework
for research and education, embargo periods, commercial exploitation, etc.) in
which the data and associated software produced and/or used in the project is
accessible should be provided.

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<th>

The data and associated software produced and/or used in the project should be
easily assessable for and intelligible to third parties in contexts such as
scientific scrutiny and peer review (e.g. the minimal datasets are handled
together with scientific papers for the purpose of peer review, data is
provided in a way that judgments can be made about their reliability and the
competence of those who created them).

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<th>

The data and associated software produced and/or used in the project should be
useable by third parties even long time after the collection of the data (e.g.
the data is safely stored in certified repositories for long term preservation
and curation; it is stored together with the minimum software, metadata and
documentation

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

5) INTEROPERABLE

to specific quality standards

</td>  
<td>

to make it useful; the data is useful for the wider public needs and usable
for the likely purposes of non-specialists).

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

The data and associated software produced and/or used in the project should be
interoperable allowing data exchange between researchers, institutions,
organisations, countries, etc. (e.g. adhering to standards for data
annotation, data exchange, compliant with available software applications, and
allowing re-combinations with different datasets from different origin).

</td> </tr> </table>

##  Roadmap for data sharing

**What and when to deposit:**

Projects participating in the open Research Data Pilot are required to deposit
the research data described below:

  * The data, including associated metadata, needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications as soon as possible; 

  

  * Other data, including associated metadata, as specified and within the deadlines laid down in a data management plan (DMP). 

  

At the same time, projects should provide information (via the chosen
repository) about tools and instruments at the disposal of the beneficiaries
and necessary for validating the results, for instance specialised software or
software code, algorithms, analysis protocols, etc. Where possible, they
should provide the tools and instruments themselves.

**How to manage the research data**

A table template in order to collect the information generated during the
project is circulated periodically. The scope of this table is to detail the
research results that will be developed during the project life span detailing
the kind of results and how it will be managed.

**Tag of the Eco-Binder project results**

According to Annex 1 all results will be tagged by the following information:

  * **Data set reference and name:**

  

Identifier for the data set to be produced.  **Data set description:**

Description of :

  * the data that will be generated or collected, 

  

  * its origin (in case it is collected), nature and scale 

  

  * to whom it could be useful, 

  

  * whether it underpins a scientific publication. 

  

Information on the existence (or not) of similar data and the possibilities
for integration and reuse.

  * **Standards and metadata**

  

Reference to existing suitable standards of the discipline. If these do not
exist, an outline on how and what metadata will be created.

  * **Data sharing**

    * Description of how data will be shared, including access procedures, embargo periods (if any), 

  

    * outlines of technical mechanisms for dissemination and necessary software and other tools for enabling re-use, and definition of whether access will be widely open or restricted to specific groups. 

  

    * Identification of the repository where data will be stored, if already existing and identified, indicating in particular the type of repository (institutional, standard repository for the discipline, etc.). In the case of ZENODO, these are the particular features of the applied data management (extracted from http://www.zenodo.org/policies). Data sharing conditions might be different if another repository is chosen. 

  

    * In case the dataset cannot be shared, the reasons for this should be mentioned (e.g. ethical, rules of personal data, intellectual property, commercial, privacy-related, security-related). 

  

  

  * **Archiving and preservation (including storage and backup)**

    * Description of the procedures that will be put in place for long-term preservation of the data. 

  

    * Indication of how long the data should be preserved, what is its approximated end volume, what the associated costs are and how these are planned to be covered. 

  

  

**Where to deposit**

Projects should deposit preferably in a research data repository and take
measures to enable third parties to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and
disseminate — free of charge for any user.

Binder Data Management Plan

OpenAIRE  (www.openaire.eu/)  implements the Horizon 2020 Open Access mandate
for publications and its Open Research Data Pilot, and provides a Zenodo
repository  (www.zenodo.org)  that could be used for depositing data.

We could use Zenodo Repository, but it is important to underline that it does
not permit to have information about the users since the data can be
downloaded without registration. Moreover, “Zenodo does not track, collect or
retain personal information from users of Zenodo, except as otherwise provided
herein. In order to enhance Zenodo and monitor traffic, non-personal
information such as IP addresses and cookies may be tracked and retained, as
well as log files shared in aggregation with other community services (in
particular OpenAIREplus partners). User provided information, like corrections
of metadata or paper claims, will be integrated into the database without
displaying its source and may be shared with other services. Zenodo will take
all reasonable measures to protect the privacy of its users and to resist
service interruptions, intentional attacks, or other events that may
compromise the security of the Zenodo website.”

Alternative solutions are being investigated by the ECO-Binder Dissemination
Task Leader, together with the DESB (Dissemination, Exploitation and
Standardization Board) Chairman and the Project Coordinator, as for example
the identification of other repositories where registration is required or the
creation of a dedicated ECO-Binder Repository to be hosted on the project
website.

**Figure 2: Zenodo webpages**

ECO-Binder

##  Expected project results and related research data

Expected project results catalogued by Task are listed within table below. The
Table below reports a short description of the contents, the format of the
data and when they will be tentatively circulated. IN particular:

  * Workpackage and task number originating the result 

  

  * The month within which the data related to the result is expected to be generated 

  

  * The partner leading the task that originates the data 

  

  * A description of the result and related data 

  

  * The expected format of the data linked with the result 

  

  * Relevant comments 

  

This table template is circulated periodically in order to monitor the results
and set the strategy for their sharing.

**Table 1: table template for collection of project results and their sharing
strategy**  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**WP**

</th>  
<th>

**Task**

</th>  
<th>

**End Month**

</th>  
<th>

**Leader**

</th>  
<th>

**Contents**

</th>  
<th>

**Format**

</th>  
<th>

</th>  
<th>

**Comments**

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<th>

**short description (metadata)**

</th>  
<th>

**.xlsx**

</th>  
<th>

**.pdf**

</th>  
<th>

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**2**

</td>  
<td>

**2.1**

</td>  
<td>

**M12**

</td>  
<td>

**VICAT**

</td>  
<td>

Conduction calorimetry and setting times (EN 196-3) on pastes following EN
196-3

Heat of hydration on mortars.

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

to be kept confidential at least until the end of the project

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Relationships between time-dependent rheology and chemical admixture dosage at
various w/c ratios.

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

to be kept confidential at least until the end of the project

</td> </tr> </table>  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**WP**

</th>  
<th>

**Task**

</th>  
<th>

**End Month**

</th>  
<th>

**Leader**

</th>  
<th>

**Format**

</th>  
<th>

**Comments**

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<th>

**short description (metadata)**

</th>  
<th>

**.xlsx**

</th>  
<th>

**.pdf**

</th>  
<th>

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

Plastic shrinkage for each set of mortars.

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

to be kept confidential at least until the end of the project

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**2.2**

</td>  
<td>

**M24**

</td>  
<td>

**TECNALIA**

</td>  
<td>

Results of tests for the optimization of the time dependent behaviour of BYF
based concrete mixes (e.g.:

Slump (ASTM C143 - 12 or EN 206), Setting time (ASTM

C403 – 08), Bleeding (ASTM C 232))

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

to be kept confidential at least until the end of the project

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**3**

</td>  
<td>

**3.1**

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

\-

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

to be kept confidential at least until the end of the project

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**3.2**

</td>  
<td>

**M32**

</td>  
<td>

**HC**

</td>  
<td>

Results of compressive and flexural tests carried out on prismatic specimens
40 x40 x160 mm according to EN 1015 (Young’s Modulus)

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

to be kept confidential at least until the end of the project

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

Internal loss factor using the resonance frequency method carried out on
prismatic specimens 500 x50 x40 mm.

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

to be kept confidential at least until the end of the project

</td> </tr> </table>  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

**WP**

</th>  
<th>

**Task**

</th>  
<th>

**End Month**

</th>  
<th>

**Leader**

</th>  
<th>

**Format**

</th>  
<th>

**Comments**

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<th>

**short description (metadata)**

</th>  
<th>

**.xlsx**

</th>  
<th>

**.pdf**

</th>  
<th>

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

Thermal conductivity (λ) (ISO 8301:1991)

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

to be kept confidential at least until the end of the project

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**3.3**

</td>  
<td>

**M36**

</td>  
<td>

**DTI**

</td>  
<td>

Results of microstructural characterisation

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

to be kept confidential at least until the end of the project

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**4**

</td>  
<td>

**4.1**

</td>  
<td>

**M6**

</td>  
<td>

**LCR**

</td>  
<td>

Durability testing protocols

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

to be kept confidential until the protocols have been validated

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**4.2**

</td>  
<td>

**M27**

</td>  
<td>

**BRE**

</td>  
<td>

Results of fire testing on BYF concretes (at different scale)

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

to be kept confidential until the protocols have been validated

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**4.3**

</td>  
<td>

**M48**

</td>  
<td>

**BRE**

</td>  
<td>

Results of long term performance and durability test

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

to be kept confidential at least until the end of the project

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**5**

</td>  
<td>

**5.1**

</td>  
<td>

**M24**

</td>  
<td>

**NOVEL TECH**

</td>  
<td>

Results of finishing technologies classification

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**WP**

</td>  
<td>

**Task**

</td>  
<td>

**End Month**

</td>  
<td>

**Leader**

</td>  
<td>

**Format**

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

**Comments**

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**short description (metadata)**

</td>  
<td>

**.xlsx**

</td>  
<td>

**.pdf**

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

**5.2**

</td>  
<td>

**M24**

</td>  
<td>

**NTUA**

</td>  
<td>

Results of tests carried out on the novel finishing materials

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**M24**

</td>  
<td>

**NOVEL TECH**

</td>  
<td>

Insulation Materials Classification

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**M24**

</td>  
<td>

**NUOVA TESI**

</td>  
<td>

Results of tests carried out on insulating prefabricated samples

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**5.3**

</td>  
<td>

**M27**

</td>  
<td>

**NOVEL TECH**

</td>  
<td>

Evaluation of optimal components – system

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**6**

</td>  
<td>

**6.1**

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

\-

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**6.2**

</td>  
<td>

**M33**

</td>  
<td>

**NUOVA TESI**

</td>  
<td>

Results of quality control of the BYF cement based façade precast components

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**6.3 & **

**6.4**

</td>  
<td>

**M45**

</td>  
<td>

**ACCIONA**

</td>  
<td>

Description of ECO-Binder envelope technologies demonstrators

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**6.5**

</td>  
<td>

**M48**

</td>  
<td>

**ACCIONA**

</td>  
<td>

Results of monitoring analysis and evaluation of the new facade elements for
building envelopes in both new construction and renovation

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**7**

</td>  
<td>

**7.1**

</td>  
<td>

**M36**

</td>  
<td>

**GEO**

</td>  
<td>

Results of LCA of the new concrete mix compositions at material level

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

**7.2**

</td>  
<td>

**M48**

</td>  
<td>

**GEO**

</td>  
<td>

Results of LCA of new products/constructions at application level (including
LCCA)

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

x

</td>  
<td>

</td> </tr> </table>

Binder Data Management Plan

#  Scientific Publications

As reported in the Technical Annex, “the Consortium is willing to submit at
least 2-3 papers for scientific/industrial publication during the course of
the project”. In the framework of the dissemination plan agreed by the GA, R&D
partners are responsible for the preparation of the scientific publications,
while the DESB is responsible for review and final approval.

Here follows the tentative description of the approach towards scientific
publications in ECO-Binder.

##  Selection of the publisher

As a general approach, the R&D partners are responsible for the scientific
publications as well as for the selection of the publisher(s) considered as
more relevant for the subject of matter.

Each publisher has its own policies on self-archiving  3  . Basically for Open
Access there are different modalities:

  * **Green open access:** researchers can deposit a version of their published work into a subject-based repository or an institutional repository. 

  

  * **Gold open Access:** alternatively researcher can publish in an open access journal, where the publisher of a scholarly journal provides free online access. Business Model for this form of open access vary. In some cases, the publisher charges the author’s institution or funding body an article processing charge. 

  

For Example:  
  
<table>  
<tr>  
<th>

Repository

</th>  
<th>

Self-archiving policy

</th> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

_http://www.springer.com/gp/_

</td>  
<td>

_"Authors may self-archive the author’s accepted manuscript of their articles
on their own websites. Authors may also deposit this version of the article in
any repository, provided it is only made publicly available 12 months after
official publication or later. He/ she may not use the publisher's version
(the final article), which is posted on SpringerLink and other_

_Springer websites, for the purpose of self-archiving or_

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

</td>  
<td>

_deposit. Furthermore, the author may only post his/her version provided
acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is
inserted to the published article on Springer's website. The link must be
provided by inserting the DOI number of the article in the following sentence:
“The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/[insert_

_DOI]”."_

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

__www.oasis-open.org/_ _

</td>  
<td>

_Publishers can facilitate Open Access in two main ways. The publisher may, of
course, publish the work with free, online access in an Open Access journal or
as an Open Access monograph. Alternatively, if the publisher's business model
is to sell monographs or subscriptions to journals, then the publisher can
still facilitate Open Access by permitting the author to self-archive the work
in an institutional or subject repository_

</td> </tr>  
<tr>  
<td>

_www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/_

</td>  
<td>

_Author's Pre-print: author can archive pre-print (ie prerefereeing)_

_Author's Post-print: author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-
refereeing)_

_Publisher's Version/PDF: author cannot archive publisher's version/PDF_

</td> </tr> </table>

As reported above there are several policies for the publication of the data
and for the selfarchiving. In this framework all cases proposed by the
relevant R&D partners will be analysed and a strategy will be defined with the
support of ECO-Binder Project Coordinator and DESB.

In addition to the official repository Zenodo (open research data repository
lunched by CERN and OpenAIRE for open data generated by projects in the H2020
framework) and the repository above listed, **institutional repositories**
will be taken into account.

In particular TECNALIA has developed its own institutional repository (i.e.
_www.dsp.tecnalia.com/_ )  . All scientific publications with Tecnalia as
author will be deposited in their institutional repositories, regardless of
the fact the ECO-BINDER articles will be deposit also in other repositories.

##  Bibliographic metadata

For adequate identification of accessible data, all the following metadata
information will be included:

Information about the grant number, name and acronym of the action:

  * European Union (UE) 

  

  * Horizon 2020 (H2020)  Innovation Action (IA)  Eco-Binder [Acronym] 

  

  * Grant Agreement: GA N° 637138 

  

Information about the publication date and embargo period if applicable:

  * Publication date 

  

  * (eventual) Length of embargo period 

  

Information about the persistent identifier (for example a Digital Object
Identifier, DOI):

  * Persistent identifier, if any, provided by the publisher (for example an ISSN number) 

  

#  Conclusions

This document constitutes the first issue of the Data Management Plan. The aim
of the DMP is to provide preliminary guidelines for the management of the
project results during the life span of the project and beyond.

The DMP will be updated during the project to fine-tune it to the data
generated and the uses identified by the Consortium since not all data or
potential uses are clear from the beginning.