OpenAIRE at the conference Bibliotheca Academica 2010, Brno, 2 November 2010

Open access in Slovenia and OpenAIRE project

Contents

National research environment

Current OA situation in Slovenia

OpenAIRE project

Conference Open access to the achievements of Slovenian scientists

OA in Slovenia tomorrow

M. Kotar, Bibliotheca Academica 2010, November 2, 20102

Slovenia

Independent state since 1991

Member of EU since 2004

Adopted EUR in 2007

2 mill. inhabitants


National research environment

Research

Research and Development Act (2002): the results of research, financed from government funds, are public App. 13.000 researchersSlovenian current research information system SICRIS Major funders: Slovenian Research Agency & Slovenian Technology Agency 1,66 % of GDP, 6 % of this from abroad


Universities

University of Ljubljana

54.000 students, 3.500 lecturers and researchers, 39 libraries, no central university library, 169 librarians and information specialists + CTK + NUK

University of Maribor

24.000 students, lecturers, researchers, 11 libraries coordinated by the university library, 92 librarians and information specialists

University of Primorska

7.000 students, lecturers, researchers, 5 libraries, 8 librarians

University of Nova Gorica

800 students, lecturers, researchers, 1 library, 3 librarians

Rectors’ Conference of RS


Institutes

Jožef Stefan Institute

Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

National Institute of Chemistry

Institute of Oncology

Agricultural Institute of Slovenia

Coordination of Independent Research Institutes of Slovenia


Current OA situation in Slovenia

Situation

Weak awareness among funders, researchers, research managers, librariansNo funder or institutional mandates for depositing publications or data from publicly financed research into OA repositoriesNone of institutions signed any of the open access declarationsNo joint policy towards publishing of open access journals


Major actions so far (1)

Rectors’ Conference suggested the establishment of a national repository connected with SICRIS to the Ministry for Science, Higher Education and Technology and to the Slovenian Research Agency (Dec. 2009)

ministry acknowledged the receipt of letter

research agency supports the ideaM. Kotar, Bibliotheca Academica 2010, November 2, 201010

Major actions so far (2)

Competitiveness of Slovenia public tender (April 2010):

gradual set up of open data system deposit of data from publicly financed

research in Slovenia


DRIVER-compliant repositories

Digital Library of Slovenia – dLib.si

(serves as national DRIVER aggregator)

Digital Library of the University of Maribor – DKUM

EPrints.FRI

ELPUB (discontinued)


Non DRIVER-compliant repositories

Univ. Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics

Univ. Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences


Other OA sources

20 OA journals in DOAJ

Rare OA monographs

Social Science Data Archives

Specialised OA databases

Public sector information


OpenAIRE project

Communication in science

Major part of published research financed from public funds

Access controlled with subscription (spiraling costs)

Copyright limitations


Open access

ICT enables the establishment of OA environment

No subscription or copyright limitations

Higher visibility and impact

Efficient use of public funds


EU response

Obligatory deposit of research publications into OA repositories

European Commission: Open Access Pilot in FP7

European Research Council: Guidelines for OA

Organisation and technical support within OpenAIRE project


Open Access Pilot in FP7

August 2008 till the end of FP7 (2013)

7 areas

Grant Agreement, Special Clause 39: deposit peer reviewed research articles or

final manuscripts resulting from their FP7 projects into an online repository

ensure open access to these articles in 6 or 12 months


European Research Council

Similar requirements as FP7 Pilot

Additionally: immediate deposit of data, OA in 6 months


OpenAIRE project (1)

Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe

Support FP7 Pilot and ERC Guidelines

Duration: 1. 12. 200930. 11. 2012

Budget: 5 mio EUR

38 partners from 26 EU countries and Norway

From Slovenia: University of Ljubljana

www.openaire.eu


http://www.openaire.eu/

OpenAIRE project (2)

OA infrastructure

European helpdesk

Orphan repository

OpenAIRE portal

Explore research data management


European Helpdesk (National Contact Points)

OpenAIRE Project Overview23

Coordinator Iryna



www.openaire.eu

Conference Open access to the achievements of Slovenian scientists

Ljubljana, October 2728, 2010

http://www.zbds-zveza.si/academic_2010.asp

Sessions

Open access worldwide

Open access in Slovenia

Open access and research evaluation

Open access in Slovenia tomorrow

(also round table)



Open access tomorrow

8th Framework Programme: 2014

Neelie Kroes: »all publicly-funded research should be freely and publicly available, rather than locked behind the paid-subscription firewalls of scientific publishers«

Slovenia will have to build the national infrastructure of open access to the achievements of Slovenian scientists



Funder mandateInstitutional mandates (to complement with)National helpdeskNational repository or national aggregator, connected with SICRISSlovenian OA journals:

register in DOAJ subscription print journals, frequently free pdfs:

enter info into Sherpa RoMEO


Useful source

Recommendations for Implementation of Open Access in Denmark (Daniela)


Thank you for your attention!

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University of Ljubljana
