1. Dimitar Poposki,
PhD candidate

2. WHAT WE HAVE WHAT WE NEED
 12 OA journals listed in Directory of  Serious approach toward national
Open Access Journals infrastructure
(only 1 with Impact Factor –
Open Access pioneer - MJCCE  Functional national/local repository
http://194.149.146.33/index.php/MJCCE/i
ndex)
 Open Access Policies/Institutional mandates
 National digital library
(cultural heritage collections, rare books,  Active involvement of Information
manuscripts) professionals/architects
(http://www.dlib.mk)
 Scholarly communication centre at
 National library – Virtual Library of Faculty/University level
Macedonia
(http://www.vbm.mk/cobiss/)
 Information literacy trainers
 1 DSpace repository (404 file not
found)  Open culture/Open data movement
http://metamorphosis.mk/digitalniskladist
a/skladishta/  Public awareness for openness/open science

3. Green OA Gold OA
Electronic Journals
Institutional Repositories
CC-BY for all OA journals
DSpace (Macedonian, Albanian)
http://metamorphosis.mk/digitalniskladista/
Open Journal Systems
http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs
FEDORA
http://duraspace.org/
Publishing platform that supports
OAI – PMH OAI – PMH
http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/
http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/

4.  Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering (OJS)
http://194.149.146.33/index.php/MJCCE
 Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences (β)
http://www.mjms.ukim.edu.mk/
 Journal of Special Education & Rehabilitation
(β)
http://jser.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/

5. Gold OA road
Vs
Green OA road
 Gold OA
 First OA e-journals lead the way in implementing Gold OA approach
 Main reason: Use of Open Journal Systems (OAI PMH)
 Green OA
 Institutional repository (Green OA) might come after the Gold OA
 Main reason: situation concerning academic publishing and low level
of information literacy/academic OA publishing)

6. Stage 1
• Install repository
• Issue an OA mandate
Stage4
Stage 2
• Promote
Open Access • Use Open
disseminatio Journal
n results Systems for
(citations, Gold OA
altmetrics)
Stage 3
• National Policy
• Institutional policy
• Founder policy

8. THANK YOU 4 supporting #openaccess!
@poposkidimitar http://www.netvibes.com/poposkidimitar
@OpenAccessMKD http://www.scoop.it/t/open-access-mkd
@OER_MKD http://www.scoop.it/t/oermkd
http://poposkidimitar.googlepages.com/home
http://independent.academia.edu/DimitarPoposki
http://www.linkedin.com/in/poposkidimitar
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