2. BULGARIA
Successful OA activities
• Creation of OA repositories
• Open Journal System in Bulgaria research journals
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3. BULGARIA
OA Policy
• Bulgarian Science Fund
Ministry of Education, Youth and Science
• Ministry of Transport, Information
Technology and Communications
• Bulgarian Information Consortium
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4. BULGARIA
OA Events and Workshops
• National Information Days “Open Access to Scientific
and Culture Information”
• Conferences and Workshops during the International
Week Open Access to Scientific Publications
• Round table on "e-Infrastructures: the new highways of
European development of Bulgaria“
• Seminars together with the Foundation “13 Centuries
Bulgaria” with representatives of Bulgarian museums and
libraries
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6. CROATIA
Successful OA activities
HRČAK
300 Croatian OA journals
7 institutional
repositories
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7. CROATIA
Open Access Policies
Croatian Open Access Declaration
Open Access is public interest
Scientific information are national treasure
Results of publicly funded scientific researches should be provided in
open access
Particular significance of the information relating to Croatia
Science evaluation procedures should not be obstacle to open access
New licensing methods to access information are necessary
Information is stored and permanently preserved
National infrastructure for open access should be sustainable
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8. CROATIA
Research Data Initiatives
SERSCIDA - support for
Establishment of
National/Regional
Social Sciences Data Archives
FULIR - Full-text Institutional
Repository of the Ruđer
Bošković Institute
Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb
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10. CZECH REPUBLIC
Successful OA activities
Association of Libraries of Czech
Universities (AKVŠ)
Open Access Support Initiative
• Promoting Open Access in the Czech
Republic
• Open Access Week events support
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11. CZECH REPUBLIC
OA Policy
Institutional Policies only…
The Academy of Sciences of the
Czech Republic adopted its Open
Access Policy in 2010.
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12. CZECH REPUBLIC
Research Data
CSSDA
Czech Social Science Data Archive
LINDAT-Clarin (CLARIN ERIC)
Centre for Language Research
Infrastructure in the Czech Republic
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14. ESTONIA
OA Policy
The Research and Innovation Policy Monitoring
Programme (TIPS Programme) has been commissioned
by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research.
The programme provides high quality research
competencies for policymaking and strategic
development of Estonian research, development and
innovation (RDI) policy.
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15. ESTONIA
Successful OA activities
• Open Access gate as part of webpage of University of
Tartu Library.
• OJS (Open Journal System)platform is implemented
for researcher and publisher in University of Tartu by
University of Tartu Library.
• Seminars and workshops during the OA week in
collaboration with researchers, policy makers,
publishers and other libraries.
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16. ESTONIA
Research Data
University of Tartu Library is a leading
member of new project. The project is
focused on the scholarly infrastructure
around datasets and planing the
cooperation with DataCite.
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18. HUNGARY
Successful OA activities
Advocacy program
• Translating DRIVER Guidelines
• SHERPA/RoMEO
• Hungarian translation
• Hungarian journal information
open-access.hu
• Providing information on open access to all
stakeholders
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19. HUNGARY
OA policy
•Government mandate on PhD theses
• OTKA (Hungarian Research Fund)
• MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
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20. HUNGARY
Research data
• HuVetA (Hungarian Veterinary Archive)
• Nationwide storage infrastructure
maintained by the National Information
Infrastructure Development Institute
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22. LATVIA
Successful OA activities
E-resources repositories:
• University of Latvia
o The scientific achievements of the leading
the University of Latvia
• Riga Technical University
• National Library of Latvia
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23. LATVIA
OA policy
The Library of the University of Latvia
actively invites to make a national policy
Discussion held at the University of Latvia about Open Access resources
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24. LATVIA
Research data
The Library of the University of Latvia
has introduced subject of research data
in to scientific organizations in Latvia
Seminar held at the University of Latvia about Open Access resources and
Open Research data
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26. LITHUANIA
Successful OA activities
OA projects supported by EIFL:
• Promoting Open Access in Lithuania
• Promotion open access with implementing
Open Journal System in Lithuanian research
journals
• Open Access from the Perspective of Young
Researchers
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27. LITHUANIA
OA Policy
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A requirement to publicly
publish has been embedded in
the Law on Higher Education
and Research of the Republic
of Lithuania in 2009
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28. LITHUANIA
Research Data
LiDA
Lithuanian humanities and social
science data archive
MIDAS
National Open Access Research Data
Archive – infrastructure of national
research data.
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31. POLAND
OA Policy
“We are working to allow open access to results of research financed
from public funds in the foreseeable future. We want 60% of results of
research financed from public funds to be available for public access in
2015 or at the beginning of 2016.”
Minister of Science and Higher Education
Barbara Kudrycka
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33. ROMANIA
Successful OA activities
The Understanding of Open Accces
Romanian Open Access Declaration
Acces-Deschis.ro
The launch of the
Romanian Open Access Portal
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35. SLOVAKIA
Successful OA activities
Slovak Chemical Library
providing free Open Access
electronical publishing services
for scientist on specialized
e-portal
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36. SLOVAKIA
Successful OA activities
Slovak centre of scientific and
technical information
preparing backgroud for
implementing OA among
scientific institutions
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37. SLOVAKIA
Successful OA activities
Slovak academy of sciences
provides academical backgroud
for teoretical issues and forming OA
policies for academical
institutions
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