OA Repositories @ Special and Academic Libraries in Zagreb

Ivana Hebrang Grgić, M. A.

Ana Barbarić, PhD.

Iva Džambaski, student

Department of Information Sciences

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

University of Zagreb

Introduction

Increasing number of scientific journals

Technological development

Electronic publishing became a new way of making research results available to scientists and wider public.

Open Access Movement

3B initiatives:

Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)

Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003)

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003)

Open Access in Croatia

Valuable initiative for achieving better visibility of research results

More than 200 Croatian OA journals

Few institutional OA repositories

The Research

Librarians' attitudes about launching institutional OA repositories

Online questionnaire, 14 questions

All 46 special and academic libraries without Open Access repositories

Response rate – 70% (32 libraries)

Reasons for the Research

Do academic and special librarians in Croatia think that OA repositories are necessary?

Have they considered the possibility of establishing them?

Are they aware of all the problems connected with choosing appropriate software, metadata model, and types of documents?

Are they aware of the problems connected with copyright issues?

How long will it take to set up an institutional repository?

37,5%

59,4%

3,1%

1 year

2 or 3 years

never

Launching the repository?

31,3%

28,1%

34,3%

Ministery of Science,Education and Sports

the library

the institution

Should repositories be funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports ?

80,7%

19,3%

yesno

Who should have access to the repository?

93,8%

6,2%

everyone

employees only

Number of persons responsible for maintanance

31,3%

3,1%

65,6%

1

2-3

more than 3

Which software should be used?

18,8%

6,2%

75,0%

Open sourcesoftware

commercialsoftware

don't know

Material types

18,8%21,6%

59,4%

84%90,6%

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100

postprints theses conferencepapers

preprints ppt

Archiving of material in a repository

12,5%

34,4%

43,7%

56,3%

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

authors withlibrarians'assistent

librarians authors someoneelse

Should consent for archiving be sought from a copyright owner?

77,4%

22,6%

no

yes

Why a repository has not been established yet?

Reason Percentage

Non-obligatory self-archiving 58%

Lack of maintenance staff 48.4%

Financial problems 38.7%

Indifference of management staff 25.8%

Indifference of employees 19.3%

Nothing of the above 9.7%

Conclusion

Lack of self-archiving policies Funding Setting up and maintaining an institutional

repository Special and academic librarians in Zagreb are

very well informed about OA repositories and are ready to take an active part in their establishing and maintenance.

THANK YOU!