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Who saves the memories for the Future ? L ibraries in the 21st centur y

Explore how commercial publishers dominate scientific literature, impacting library access. Delve into open access initiatives and Hungarian efforts to preserve and share research digitally.

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Who saves the memories for the Future ? L ibraries in the 21st centur y

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  1. Who saves the memories for the Future?Librariesin the 21st century „University and Universality” International University Conference 13th. October 2017. Pécs

  2. Scientific communication and publishing Outcomes of science universities, scientific institutions Outcomes of science commercial publishers Commercial publishers have monopoly or oligopoly in the subject of scientific publications the prices are increasing the libraries can buy less and less scientific publications

  3. Scientific communication and publishing „According to a new study by researchers at the University of Montreal, 53% ofall published research papers in 2013 in the natural and medical sciences wereproduced by just five publishing companies.” http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127502 https://www.elsevier.com/ http://www.springer.com/gp/ https://www.ebsco.com/ http://eu.wiley.com

  4. Scientific communication and publishing Content of the scientific databases In the beginning, in the early ‘90s the content of databases were mostly bibliographic data but nowadays the typical content is full text information: e-journals and e-books. E.g. Springer has more than 2,900 journals and 200,000 books http://www.springer.com/gp/

  5. Electronic Information Service National Programme (EISZ) Since 2002 a national program for country-wide licensing scientific databases for higher education and scientific research http://eisz.mtak.hu/index.php/en EISZ has 41 big databases (of which 5 are Hungarian) EISZ is accessible from universities libraries archives academic research institutes COMPASS - http://compass.konyvtar.mta.hu/ Database of databases and e-journals accessible from Hungary

  6. National Science Bibliographic Database (MTMT) A national database since 2009. https://www.mtmt.hu// Its aim is to collect bibliographic information about the Hungarian scientific publications Service provider: the Libraryof the Hungarian Academy of Sciences The legal rules for Hungarian scientists, researchers Members: the Hungarian higher education institutions

  7. Open Access Initiative (OAI) Answer to the problem of commercial scientific publishing Initiative for free access of scientific publications against to commercial publishers OAI-PMH for distribution of open access collections - http://www.openarchives.org/ First examples: preprints archives e.g. arXiv.org Cornell University Library

  8. Open Access Initiative (OAI) Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2002 at OSA http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/ Original declaration http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read Suggested strategies Self-archiving in open electronic archives Open-access journals Signatures of the declaration: 6056 individuals and 969 organizations Translationsto many languages

  9. Alternative ways to open access„Individual fighters” Aaron Swartz; free access to 4,8 million JSTOR articles in 2010-2011 JSTOR prosecution -> Swartz committed suicide 2013.01.13. Alexandra Elbakyan Kazakh student in 2011 Sci-hub; 62 million academic papers „To remove all barriers in the way of science” Sci-hub is a database, an infrastructure using stolen or donated credentials to bypasses publishers’ paywalls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

  10. Situation in Hungary – e-journals Small market size => no real commercial database vendors More and more Hungarian journals go online but they are scattered, the service and the financing is uncertain ADT Arcanum Digitheca One commercial actor - Arcanum https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/en/ Digitized journals, newspapers, ~ 480 titles Paid access, but part of the EISZ service

  11. Situation in Hungary – e-journals Hungarian e-journals in Open Journal Systems (OJS), e.g. http://ojs3.mtak.hu/ http://ojs.elte.hu/ https://pp.bme.hu One good example Scientific and Technical Information (TMT) One of the oldest library science journal in Hungary Since 2017.01.01. it is published online only with the OJS platform http://tmt.omikk.bme.hu/tmt/index Experimental unifiedsearch engine of OJS journals http://oaikereso.sztaki.hu/kereso/index.php?type=1

  12. Situation in Hungary – e-journals in the National Széchényi Library From 2004. Electronic Periodicals Archive & Database (EPA) Goals: to register every Hungarian online and digitized journal to archive some Hungarian, open access, digitized or born digital journals from Hungary and from abroad, too More than 820 titles, 7700 issues and 500.000 articles with full text Contains 255 scientific journal titles

  13. Situation in HungaryRepositories Repositories in the Hungarian higher education HUNOR – consortium of the HUNgarian Open Repositories http://www.open-access.hu/hunor Contents Digitized books and journals PhD papers Scientific publications of teachers and researchers Unified search engine of Hungarian repositories http://oaikereso.sztaki.hu/kereso/index.php?type=0

  14. Situation in HungaryRepositories 2012. The President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, hereafter MTA) issued an Open Access Mandate Open Access Mandate of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) http://real.mtak.hu/eprints/mandate.html MTA homepage for Open Access http://openaccess.mtak.hu

  15. Digital preservation in the National Széchényi Library 1999. Collect, preserve and make availableHungarian and Hungary-related digital books Hungarian Electronic Library (MEK) http://mek.oszk.hu Both digitized and born digital books, audiobooks With cultural, scientific or educational content 17.000 volumes(65% of it are scientific books) Source of the documents: Cooperation agreements with many universities, scientific institutions, civil associationsto collect and service their online publications Also directly from authors

  16. Digital preservation in the National Széchényi Library 2017-2018. Pilot project of web archiving http://mekosztaly.oszk.hu/mia Testing and planning the infrastructure, the required hardware and software Application to the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Collecting homepage URLs of universities, libraries, museums, archives, e-journals for selective harvesting Aim: to start the Hungarian Internet Archive (MIA)

  17. Trends The scientific communication is increasingly in digital form and online In Central and Eastern Europe the commercial sector is less developed than in Western Europe or in the US. Libraries have more responsibility in scientific communication; in preserving and distributing the digital scientific content Digital change-over is started in the libraries, too

  18. Thank you for your attention! István Moldován E-Library Services Department moldovan@oszk.hu 18

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