[eIFLoa] Open Access: Maximising Research Impact workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria

[Iryna Kuchma]

52 research managers, researchers and librarians from Bulgaria, Macedonia,
Serbia and Slovenia participated in the Open Access: Maximising Research
Impact workshop in the New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia, organised by
the Bulgarian Information Consortium, New Bulgarian University Library and
eIFL.net, and supported by the Higher Education Support Program (HESP) of
the Open Society Institute. The participants discussed the benefits of open
access for researchers, research managers and policy makers; case studies
from TARA: Trinity's Access to Research Archive, Ireland, New Bulgarian
University Scholar Electronic Repository and ePrints.FRI, Slovenia, and
value-added services that can be build on top of the repositories - the
Serbian Citation Index - SCIndeks developed for publications in Serbian
journals (all of them are open access journals due to the mandate from the
Ministry of Science and Education). The second day of the workshop was
devoted to discussing funders open access policies, university open access
policies, repository policies, copyright management and open content
licences for sharing materials from the repositories and checklists for
setting up institutional repositories and increasing usage. You can download
all workshop presentations here:
http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-oa/training/2009-sofia. The
HESP Program will be supporting eIFL.net is organising more seminars for the
HESP supported institutions in Poland, Latvia and Russia.

Background information - Open Access projects in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia
and Slovenia

Bulgaria: - 14 OA journals registered in DOAJ published by New Bulgarian
University Library, Bourgas University, Technical College; Hikari Ltd,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Trakia
University, National Bank for Industrial Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
Bulgaria and Bulgarian Geological Society. - 3 institutional repositories:
New Bulgarian University Scholar Electronic Repository,
http://eprints.nbu.bg/ Research at Sofia University
http://research.it.fmi.uni-sofia.bg:8880/dspace/ and University of Rus.
http://dspace.ru.acad.bg American University in Bulgaria is working on
creating institutional repository.

Macedonia: 4 OA journals registered in DOAJ published by Versita, Society of
the Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia, University Ss Kiril and Metodij
and Institute for Sociological and Political Research.

Serbia: - Open Access journals from Serbia at the National Library
http://nainfo.nb.rs/doiserboai/oai2.aspx - 24 OA journals registered in DOAJ
published by the The Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Sciences and
Mathematics, University of Nis; University of Belgrade and Academic Mind;
Astronomical Observatory, Department of Astronomy; Serbian Academy of
Sciences and Arts; Association of the Chemical Engineers; Electrochemical
Science Group; Serbian Chemical Society; Mathematical Society of Serbia;
VINČA Institute of Nuclear Sciences; Drustvo Psihologa Srbije; University of
Belgrade, Sports Academy, Serbian medical association, Zajecar.

Slovenia: - 20 OA journals registered in DOAJ published by Biotechnical
Faculty, Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana; Slovenian Chemical
Society, Geografski inštitut Antona Melika ZRC SAZU, Slovene Anthropological
Society, Morana RTD d.o.o., Association of Surveyors of Slovenia, Versita,
Slovenian Museum of Natural History and Mississippi College, Slovenian
Society for Stereology and Quantitative Image Analysis, The Slovene Society
Informatika, University of Primorska, Faculty of Management, Institute of
Metals and Technology with associated publishers, International Association
for Political Science Students (IAPSS), Slovensko društvo učiteljev tujega
strokovnega jezika (SDUTSJ) and Slovenian Forestry Institute. - department
repository ePrints.FRI at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science
(FRI), Univerza v Ljubljani. http://eprints.fri.uni-lj.si The collegium of
the rector commissioned a draft model for the establishment of the
institutional repository for research publications and higher education
works (diploma, master and PhD theses) for Ljubljana University.