National ePosters (East region) - OpenAIRE Conference 2012

1. ePosters
south region
Cyprus
Greece
Italy
Malta
Portugal
Spain
Turkey
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2. CYPRUS
Successful OA activities
•Berlin Declaration has been signed by the Senate of the
University of Cyprus (UCY) and the Cyprus University of
Technology.
•The Cyprus Academic Library Consortium (CALC) has signed a
nationwide subscription contract with BMC (Biomed Central)
for an open access model to the BMC journals
•Several presentations regarding OA resulting from Cyprus
participation in OpenAIRE & OpenAIREplus projects.
•CUT (Cyprus University of Technology) organizes special
events for OA with the contribution of the further Research
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3. CYPRUS
Successful OA activities
•VOA3R (Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository):
Sharing Scientific and Scholarly Research related to Agriculture,
Food, and Environment. Represented by Agricultural Research
Institute – Cyprus
•Two institutional repository initiatives:
•LEKYTHOS (academic – institutional repository of
University of Cyprus), offered to all the local researchers
and already compliant with OpenAIRE .
•Ktisis (academic – institutional repository of Cyprus
University of Technology) being in process to comply with
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4. CYPRUS
OA Policy
Madrid/Brussels, 9 July 2012 - The Cypriot Presidency of the Council
of the European Union (EU) has decided to accept the challenge of
reaching an agreement on the revision of the EU access to
documents Regulation (Regulation 1049/2001).
Cyprus has not yet officially adopted any OA policies or mandates.
Some of the Universities organize presentations or conferences for
Open Access publishing in order to familiarize the scientific
community with the benefits and advantages of Open Access. Mainly
the national Universities host those events aiming to spread the idea
of Open Access widely.
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5. ePosters
south region
Cyprus
Greece
Italy
Malta
Portugal
Spain
Turkey
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6. GREECE
Successful OA activities
- Steady growth of OA journals by small publishers (~35), as well
as repositories (~14). Latter expected to grow even more with
public funding already approved for this
- Among other nation-wide OA activities, EKT runs the main
aggregator for OA content in the country
www.openarchives.gr
- Main information hub for OA in Greece www.openaccess.gr
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7. GREECE
OA Policy
- No policy at the national level yet
- Open access article included in the proposed law on Research
and Technology (in deliberation since 2011)
- No funder policies exist and only one institutional policy
- Through the policy-oriented EU project MEDOANET (
www.medoanet.eu) - coordinated by EKT, rigorous
engagement has been enveloping with research funders and
institutions in the country, whose practices have been mapped
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8. GREECE
Research Data
Access to research datasets of PhD theses from the
National Archive of PhD Theses is being planned for the
near future (http://phdtheses.ekt.gr)
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9. ePosters
south region
Cyprus
Greece
Italy
Malta
Portugal
Spain
Turkey
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10. ITALY
Successful OA activities
PLEIADI
National OAI-PMH Harvester
Wiki-OA
Supporting the research
community in open access
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11. ITALY
OA policy
CARIPLO Foundation
First Italian grantmaking
foundation with an OA policy
MedOANet task-force
Recommendations towards OA
Policies implementation
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12. ITALY
Research data
Survey on Researchers data
production, management, and
access policies (Aug-Nov 2012)
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13. ePosters
south region
Cyprus
Greece
Italy
Malta
Portugal
Spain
Turkey
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14. MALTA
Successful OA activities
Malta Council for Science and
Technology
Promoting Open Access Standards
and Services for Repositories
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15. MALTA
OA Policy
Malta Council for Science and
Technology
National RTDI Funding Programme
promotes Open Access publishing
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16. MALTA
Research Data
Malta Council for Science and
Technology
Supporting the research
community in open access
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17. ePosters
south region
Cyprus
Greece
Italy
Malta
Portugal
Spain
Turkey
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18. PORTUGAL
Successful OA activities
RCAAP - PORTUGAL OA SCIENCE REPOSITORY
RCAAP project contributed to strong
OA progress in Portugal. Currently 35 OA
repositories, with more than 100.000
documents (www.rcaap.pt).
OpenAIRE IR COMPLIANCY
29 repositories OpenAIRE compliant.
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19. PORTUGAL
OA Policy
INSTITUTIONAL OA POLICIES
17 OA institutional policies & mandates
(14 since 2010).
FUNDERS POLICY
FCT, the national public funder,
announced an OA mandate recently.
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20. PORTUGAL
Research Data
NATIONAL REPORT
"Open data Repositories: State of the Art“
(2010) report signaling the start of RCAAP
intervention and local initiatives on this
domain.
PILOT DATA REPOSITORY
RCAAP project has already an Open Data
Repository working with 3 pilot institutions.
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21. ePosters
south region
Cyprus
Greece
Italy
Malta
Portugal
Spain
Turkey
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22. SPAIN
Successful OA activities
Recolecta - Developing Services for Repositories
42 Institutional repositories
More than 200.000 resources
(www.recolecta.net)
International projects
OpenAIRE -> 21 repositories OpenAIRE compliant.
OpenAIRE Plus
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23. SPAIN
OA Policy
 National OA mandate in the new Law
of Science -> green road
 2 Regional Governments (Madrid &
Asturias) with OA mandate
 More than 10 Universities with OA
mandate
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24. SPAIN
Research Data
Recolecta National experts group
Recolecta National position report in
progress
R&D projects on research data:
 Odisea
 EUDAT
 Wf4Ever
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25. ePosters
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Cyprus
Greece
Italy
Malta
Portugal
Spain
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26. TURKEY
Successful OA Activities
• Translating the "OpenAIREplus Poster", "How Open Is It?
Brochure" and "OpenAIRE Leaflet" into Turkish and
disseminate them in OA Week
•25 March 2012, National Library Week, Istanbul Kadir Has
University, "OpenAIREplus Presentation"
• 26 March 2012, National Library Week, Ankara National
Library, "OpenAIREplus Presentation"
• 28 April 2012, ANKOS 12th Annual Meeting, Elazig Firat
University, "ANKOS OA&IR Group and OpenAIREplus
Project Presentation"
• 5 October 2012, University and Research Libraries
Assoc. Annual Meeting, Batman University, "Paving the
way to an open scientific information: OpenAIREplus
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Presentation"

27. TURKEY
Successful OA Activities
• 18 October 2012, National OA Week Activities, Istanbul
Koc University, "Open Access and OpenAIREplus Project
Presentation"
• 2 November 2012, OA Panel, Istanbul Marmara
University, "Enhance the Impact of Your Scientific
Academic Studies and Projects: Open Access and
OpenAIREplus Presentation"
• 7 November 2012, inet'tr'12 OA Panel, Eskisehir Anadolu
University, "Open Access to the Scientific Information
Support from the Turkish OpenAIREplus NOADs for E-
Science Presentation"
• 8 November 2012, National Open Access Workshop,
Ankara Hacettepe University, target audience (librarians,
research managers, policy makers, funders, researchers
etc.), "Open Access, Institutional Repositories and
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OpenAIREplus Project Presentation"

28. TURKEY
OA Policy
• Institutional Policy by IZTECH (Izmir
Institute of Technology) to disseminate
and expand around Turkey
• Turkish Scientific and Technical
Research Council (TUBITAK) will support
the National OA Policy
Research Data
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