open access in national laws – a case study of lithuania dr. gintare tautkeviciene head of...

OPEN ACCESS IN NATIONAL LAWS – A CASE STUDY OF LITHUANIA

Dr. Gintare Tautkeviciene Head of Information Services Department, Kaunas University of Technology; Lithuanian Research Library Consortium (LMBA)

EIFL 2010 General Assembly, Lund, Sweden, August 6 - 8, 2010

OUTLINE

Open access in Lithuania: initiatives, situation

The national repository eLABa: description, collections, statistics

Documents regulating open access

Problems


OA IN LITHUANIA: INITIATIVES

Membership in BioMedCentral: The Institute of Oncology at Vilnius University,

2004 The Library of Kaunas University of Medicine, 2003-2006

Start-up of the development of the repository: ETD Lithuania Project as a Pilot for the Baltic

States, 2003-2004


OA IN LITHUANIA: INITIATIVES

Main OA events: Workshop Open Access and Scholarly Communication, 2005.

Organizers: LMBA, OSI Workshop Open Access - Revolution in the Scholarly

Publishing?, 2005. Organizers: LMBA, LABT Workshop OA in European Union and Lithuania, 2008.

Organizers: SPARC, LMBA, Ministry of Education and Science Open Access Day: Workshop Quality Assurance of Scientific

Information in Open Access, October 14, 2008, Ministry of Education and Science, Research Council of Lithuania, LMBA

OA Week: a promotion event; an OA panel session at the international conference Innovation and Creativity in e-Learning, November 20, 2009, Kaunas


OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

13 journals in DOAJLithuanian Academy of Sciences12 scientific journals are published (all of

them are OA) Lithuanian research journals

http://www.mab.lt/pdb_msd1.html (the majority of them are OA)


Electronic Academic Library of Lithuania (eLABa)

Project Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network http://www.labt.lt, 2003

ETD Lithuania Project as a Pilot for the Baltic States, 2003-2004

Projects financed from the European Union Structural Funds, 2005-2008: Development of Lithuanian academic e-publishing

system Lithuanian virtual library and creation of a full-text

documents database Lithuanian science and study e-documents

accumulation and delivery to the users



eLABa COLLECTIONS

ETD; 14431; 77%

Books; 79; 0%

Journal articles; 4182;

22%

Empirical data; 145; 1%

Proceedings; 34; 0%

Working papers; 1; 0%

ETD Books Journal articles

Proceedings Working papers Empirical data

0 1000 2000 3000

VPU

MRU

VDU

ŠU

LŽŪU

VGTU

VU

KTU

KMU

LKKA

LVA

ISMVEU

KU

LMTA

VDA

BT

MT

WPGA

DD

DDS

SWRHP

ETD COLLECTION (submission by institutions)

BT – Bachelor thesesMT – Master thesesWPGA – Works by post-graduates of artDD – Doctoral dissertationsDDS – Doctoral dissertation's summariesSWRHP – Science works for habilitation procedures


ETD COLLECTION (by access status)

Unrestricted

Available on intranet only

Withheld

On submission

4301; 30%

5402; 37%

4724; 33%

Now

8740; 61%2463; 17%

3224; 22%


eLABa INTEGRATION WORLDWIDE

Registration: ROAR (The Registry of Open Access

Repositories) OpenDOAR (The Directory of Open Access

Repositories)Availability: Google OAIster BASE NDLTD DRIVER DART-Europe PEER, etc.


OA POLICY: governmental level

The Law on Copyrights and Related Rights (as of May 18, 1999)

The Order of the Minister of Education and Science of Lithuania as of July 14, 2006 Re: Establishment of Information System for Online Research and Studies Documents in Lithuania

The Order of the Minister of Education and Science of Lithuania as of March 13, 2008 Re: Accumulation of graduation thesis, doctoral dissertations and their summaries as well as reviews of research works submitted for the habilitation procedure in the information system for science and study e-documents of the Republic of Lithuania

The Law on Science and Studies of the Republic of Lithuania (as of April 30, 2009)


The Law on Science and Studies of the Republic of Lithuania (as of April 30, 2009) Article 45. Publicity of the results of scientific

activity: 1. In order to guarantee the quality,

transparency of scientific research and to stimulate scientific advancement carried out by utilizing the state budget funds, all results of scientific activity carried out in the state science and study institutions must be made public (via the internet and by other means) if this is in agreement with the laws regulating intellectual property and protection of the commercial, state or work-related secrets.

2. The results of scientific activity carried out at non-governmental institutions of science and studies using the state budget funds must be made public (via the internet and by other means) if this is in agreement with the laws regulating intellectual property and protection of commercial or state secrets.


POLICY AND REGULATIONS: Institutional level

Regulations of Open Access to Scientific Information of Vilnius University (October 8, 2009)

Vytautas Magnus University Regulations on Submission of Study and Research Documents to the Electronic Academic Library of Lithuania (eLABa) (May 27, 2009)


PROBLEMS: Governmental Level

No secondary legislation has been adopted

Changes of top-level officials Adjustments in financing the

development of the repository


PROBLEMS: Institutional Level Unwillingness of certain institutions to

allocate funds for the development and maintenance of the repository

Administrators of the Institutions are not inclined to share the results of research

OA publications do not provide additional points in ranking accomplishments of scientists

The eLABa interface is not sufficiently clear and user friendly

Uploading of works on the eLABa is rather complicated.


FUTURE PLANS A new consortium – the Consortium of Lithuanian

Academic Libraries for the Development and Support of Information Infrastructure for Science and Studies, 2010

One of its objectives – reorganisation and development of the eLABa

Vilnius University - a new administrator of the eLABa New documents regulating involvement of

institutions in the development of the eLABa are under preparation

A Working Group consisting of representatives of all research and higher education institutions has been established and will start its activities in early September


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