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Open Access in Slovenia. Mojca Kotar, University of Ljubljana ( mojca.kotar@uni - lj.si ). Publications and research data. Independent country since 1991 2 million inhabitants EU Member State since 2004 Adopted EUR in 2007
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Open Access in Slovenia Mojca Kotar, University of Ljubljana (mojca.kotar@uni-lj.si) UNESCO Regional Consultation on »Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies«, Minsk, 6 September 2012
Publications and research data • Independentcountrysince 1991 • 2 millioninhabitants • EU MemberStatesince 2004 • Adopted EUR in 2007 • Financialcrisis, severe austeritymeasuresimposedbythegovernment 14.208 registeredresearchers NationalCRIS = SICRIS Estimateof a yearlynumber of publications for depositintoOA repositories No record of thetypeandnumber of research datasetsperyear UNESCO Regional Consultation on »Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies«, Minsk, 6 September 2012
Current status of Open Access (1/2) • No OA policiesbyfundersandinstitutionsyet(legal copy of co-financedjournalsandfinal research reports: obligatorydepositintothenational digital library) • Research Infrastructure Development Plan 2011–2020: establishment of national OA infrastructures for research publicationsanddata, connectedwith SICRIS; whenestablished, depositwillbemademandatory • Lowawareness of researchers, reluctant to publish in gold OA journals – becauseof theevaluationmetricstheypreferhybridjournals of traditionalpublishers; verylittle open data • Recentlyverystrongsupportfromtherectors (August 2012) • None of institutionshassignedany of the OA declarations UNESCO Regional Consultation on »Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies«, Minsk, 6 September 2012
Current status of Open Access (2/2) • 36 Slovenianscientificjournalslisted in DOAJ, no nationalportal of journals • RareSlovenian OA monographs • Scatteredrepositoryimplementations (mostlycontainETDs, verylittle research publications), no nationalportal of repositories: 1 universityrepository 3 facultyrepositories, more non-OAI-PMH compliant ETD archives 1 national digital library • 1 dataarchive for social sciences • Nat & Univ Lib partner in DRIVER projects • Univ Ljubljana partner in OpenAIREandOpenAIREplusprojects UNESCO Regional Consultation on »Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies«, Minsk, 6 September 2012
Key national projects • openaccess.si(2011, EIFL grant, consortium of 13 institutions): activenationalinformationportal • Open dataproject(2010–2013, Ministrygrant, Univ Ljubljana): surveyandrecommendations on national open datainfrastructure • Portal of Slovenianscientificandliteraryjournals(2010–2011, SlovenianBookAgencygrant, ThePeace Institute): Action plan prepared • Pilot establishment of a national OA infrastructure for ETDsand research publications(August 2012, application to theMinistrytender, consortium of alluniversities): 4 repositories + national portal, OpenAIREcompliant, connectedwith SICRIS, contribute to DART-EuropeandWorldCat, plagiarismdetection UNESCO Regional Consultation on »Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies«, Minsk, 6 September 2012
Major players • Ministry of Education, Science, CultureandSport(funding Open dataproject) • SlovenianBookAgency(fundedAction plan for thescientificjournals portal) • Fouruniversities(openaccess.siconsortiumwith major research institutes, Open Data Project, tenderapplication for pilot OA infrastructure) • ThePeace Institute(=NGO, Action Plan for thescientificjournalsportal) • Research libraries(Open access to theachievements of Slovenianresearchersconference, 2010) UNESCO Regional Consultation on »Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies«, Minsk, 6 September 2012
Potentialbarriers for furtheradoption • Low awareness of researchers • Lack of OA mandates from funders and institutions • Lack of repositories for research publications and data • Lack of coordination of activities UNESCO Regional Consultation on »Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies«, Minsk, 6 September 2012
Desired developments Establishmentof a national OA infrastructure for ETDsand research publications Tenderapplication August 2012 MirroredOA mandatesbyfundersandinstitutions, based on EC Recommendation of 17 July 2012: allarticlesopenlyaccessibleeitherimmediatelybythepublisherand/or availablethroughOA repositoryno laterthan 6 months (12 monthsfor social sciencesandhumanities) UNESCO Regional Consultation on »Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies«, Minsk, 6 September 2012
Collaborativeandcollectiveefforts to advance OA in theregion • Draft OA policies for funders and institutions in the region • Support/help with building the repositories • Peruse of best practise cases from the region and worldwide for policies and infrastructures (SCIndeks, Hrčak, NARCIS, RIAN, NORA, Recommendations for Implementation of Open Access in Denmark ...) UNESCO Regional Consultation on »Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies«, Minsk, 6 September 2012
Enablingfeaturesandcriticalsuccessfactors in Slovenia • Access to thelatestinformation on OA developments (OpenAIRE, OpenAIREplus, Open Access Tracking Project) + enthusiasticadvocates • Regularandpersistantadvocacy to allshareholders, most importantly to fundersand research management, butalso to researchers, librarians, IT professionals • Use differentdisseminationchannels (directmailings, websites, livepresentations) • Possibility to detectplagiarism in Slovenianlanguage on a nationallevel UNESCO Regional Consultation on »Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies«, Minsk, 6 September 2012
UNESCO Regional Consultation on »Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies«, Minsk, 6 September 2012