1. OPEN ACCESS
AND
ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
Dimitar Poposki, PhD candidate
Department of Information and Communication Sciences
University of Zagreb

2. OPEN ACCESS IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
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10/25/2012
 The Budapest Open Access Initiative
Open Access Week 2012
Definition of open access
“By ‘open access’ to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public Internet,
permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the
full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or
use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers
other than those inseparable from gaining access to the Internet itself. The only
constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this
domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the
right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”
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3. OPEN ACCESS IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
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10/25/2012
 Gold
OA _ E-Journals
http://www.mjms.ukim.edu.mk/
Open Access Week 2012
http://www.mjcce.org.mk/
 Green_ OA_Repositories
DSpace
http://metamorphosis.mk/digitalniskladista/skladishta/
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4. OPEN ACCESS IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
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Open Access Week 2012
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 BASE - search engine for academic open access web resources
http://www.base-search.net/
Open Access Week 2012
 List of academic databases and search engines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines
 Directory of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/find.php?format=charts
http://www.opendoar.org/search.php
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Open Access Week 2012
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http://www.base-search.net/about/en/about_statistics.php?menu=2

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Recommendations
10/25/2012
http://goo.gl/2eh32 1. There is a moral imperative for open access
Open Access Week 2012
2. Individual agencies must work together to raise
awareness of the moral imperative for open access
3. All research stakeholders should work together in
order to support the extension of Europe PubMed
Central into a Europe-wide PubMed Central
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8. OPEN ACCESS IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
SEPTEMBER 2012
10/25/2012
Professor Josef Syka, Chair of the Science Policy
http://goo.gl/2eh32 Briefing and EMRC Core Group member, commented:
Open Access Week 2012
“The turnover of information in biomedical sciences is
very fast, so rapid delivery of information is needed at a
fair price.
Open access publishing has the potential to
revolutionise the way in which biomedical
scientists publish and access the latest results.
The EMRC supports open access publishing as the
ultimate goal to maximise the discoverability process,
the access to and the re-use of biomedical research
results in Europe.”
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9. THANK YOU! QUESTIONS?
Poposki Dimitar
PhD candidate at the Department for Information Science, Faculty
of Philosophy, University of Zagreb
Looking for a new exciting job in information management
industry...Contact me for job offers and project possibilities!
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