Slovenian efforts in Open Access
Mojca Kotar, University of Ljubljana
(mojca.kotar@uni-lj.si)
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Open Access
Part of Open Science
Open peer-reviewed research publications:
Gratis/free Open Access: © 2012 Publisher
Libre Open Access, CC-BY license:
© 2012 Author1 et al., licensee Publisher
Gold OA = open journals
Green OA = articles published in (subscription) journals +
postprints deposited into repositories
Open data: CC0 license
Enriched publications: open articles and open data connected
via metadata (typically project info)
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Slovenia – publications and research datasets
14,153 registered researchers
National CRIS = SICRIS
Estimate of a yearly number of publications for
deposit into Open Access repositories
no. of ETDs no. of research total
publications
Univ Ljubljana 9,620 14,600 24,220
Univ Maribor 4,000 4,500 8,500
Univ Primorska 1,000 1,600 2,600
Univ Nova Gorica 140 1,000 1,140
Slovenian Academy of / 2,600 2,600
• Independent country since 1991 Sciences and Arts
• 2 million inhabitants Jožef Stefan Institute / 1,400 1,400
National Institute of / 550 550
• EU Member State since 2004 Chemistry
• Adopted EUR in 2007
• Financial crisis, severe austerity No record of the type and number of research
measures imposed by the datasets per year
Government
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Current state of Open Access (1/2)
• No Open Access policies by funders and institutions yet (Legal Deposit of
e-versions of co-financed scientific and professional journals and final
research reports into the national digital library)
• Research Infrastructure Development Plan 2011–2020: establishment of
national Open Access infrastructures for research publications and data,
connected with SICRIS; when established, deposit will be made mandatory
• Low awareness of researchers, very little open data
• Recently very strong support from the rectors (August 2012)
• None of the institutions has signed any of the Open Access declarations
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Current state of Open Access (2/2)
• 37 Slovenian scientific journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (out
of app. 120), no national portal of journals
• Rare Slovenian Open Access monographs
• Scattered repository implementations, mostly contain Electronic Theses and
Dissertations and very little research publications, no national portal of
repositories:
1 university repository
3 faculty repositories, more non-OAI-PMH compliant ETD archives
1 national digital library
• 1 data archive for social sciences & humanities
• National and University Library partner in DRIVER projects
• University of Ljubljana partner in OpenAIRE and OpenAIREplus projects
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Key national Open Access projects
• openaccess.si (2011, EIFL grant, consortium of 13 institutions):
active national information portal
• Open data project (2010–2013, Ministry grant, Univ Ljubljana):
survey and action plan for the national open data infrastructure
• Portal of Slovenian scientific and literary journals (2010–2011,
Slovenian Book Agency grant, The Peace Institute): action plan
prepared
• Pilot establishment of a national Open Access infrastructure for
ETDs and research publications (August 2012, application to the
Ministry tender, consortium of all universities): 4 repositories +
national portal, OpenAIRE compliant, connected with SICRIS,
contribute to DART-Europe and WorldCat, plagiarism detection
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Desired developments
Establishment of a national Open Access infrastructure for Electronic
Theses and Dissertations and research publications
estimate per year no. of ETDs no. of research total
Tender application Univ Ljubljana 9,620
publications
14,600 24,220
August 2012 Univ Maribor
Univ Primorska
4,000
1,000
4,500
1,600
8,500
2,600
Univ Nova Gorica 140 1,000 1,140
total 14,760 21,700 36,460
estimate of a national share nearly all app. 80 %
Mirrored Open Access mandates by funders and institutions, based
on European Commission Recommendation of 17 July 2012:
all articles openly accessible either immediately by the publisher
and/or available through Open Access repository no later than 6
months (12 months for social sciences and humanities)
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Advice for Macedonia
Benefit from being late – plan nationally:
•information portal (openaccess.mk )
•national Open Access infrastructure
(institutional repositories + national portal)
•national Open Access helpdesk (research
librarians)
•Open Access mandates (funders, institutions)
•curation and preservation
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Analyse the national research environment
Estimate of a yearly number of publications for
deposit into Open Access repositories
estimate per year no. of ETDs no. of research total
publications
University 1
University 2
University 3
National Academy of
/
Sciences and Arts
Institute 1 /
Institute 2 … /
total XX,XXX
2 million inhabitants
No. of researchers in 2009: 1,254
(erawatch Country Reports 2011: Republic of Macedonia)
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Useful documents & assistance
• Commision recommendation of 17. 7. 2012 on
access to and preservation of scientific
information
• UNESCO Policy Guidelines for the
Development and Promotion of Open Access,
2012
• Recommendations for Implementation of
Open Access in Denmark, 2011
• assistance: iryna.kuchma@eifl.net
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Conference e-Society.mk, Skopje, 14 November 2012