1) The document discusses open access to information for researchers in Northern Cyprus and evaluates e-libraries and databases available. It notes that while open access helps reduce costs, economic challenges like high inflation in Northern Cyprus increase costs of accessing information. 2) Recommendations include that all institutions in Northern Cyprus should collect information and backup data in open archives to integrate with European research infrastructure and comply with open access rules. 3) Adopting open access policies can help Northern Cyprus researchers despite the territory's economic and political situation.

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Evaluation of Open Library : The Case of Northern Cyprus.
Akman Dincyurek
Abstract
Developing electronic library (e-library), academic publications and scientific data, has helped
take digital environment. Developing this situation has created a new market. İn this case, the
costs of researchers and funders, is rising continuously. Especially , institutions and civil society
organizations, through open access, providing the reach of science to researchers, facilitating
access to information and it is helping to drive down research costs. Cyprus is a member of the
European Union. Depending on the responsibility Turkey, Northern Cyprus, is not formally
recognized by the European Union.
In this article, researchers in Northern Cyprus, regarding open access to information , it was
studied have been evaluated.
Keywords: Northern Cyprus, Library Management , E-Library , Corporate Archives, Open
Access.

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İntroduction
Ease in many areas has reduced the cost significantly.
Besides the existing institutions, new organizations have been created and edited the collected
information sources, significant improvements in the provision of easily accessible to The
investigators recorded.
greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots continues studies in progress for the establishment of the
Federal Republic of Cyprus. In the current state of northern Cyprus is the responsibility of the
republic of turkey. With this reason, Turkey has deep ties to northern Cyprus.
Due to our deep cooperation, Our membership databases are made with the consortium in
Turkey.
E-Library and Databases
ANKOS is the acronym for the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium. While consortium
development in North America and Europe was well underway more than four decades ago1, it
started in Turkey on the eve of the 3rd
Millennium, when one State and three private university
libraries signed a contract, initiated by Ebsco, for the joint purchase of two databases for 1999.
Consortium development began in earnest a year later, when seven more State university
libraries and the National Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBIM) joined the
Ebsco contract for 2000, nine institutions joined an agreement with Academic Press for IDEAL,
and all twelve jointlysubscribed to MathSciNet.
In late 1999, ULAKBIM secured an agreement with Thomson-ISI to mount a local intranet of
its science and social science citation indices. ISI’s sales representative then offered the
libraries a 3-year consortium deal. Ultimately, 22 libraries accepted it, in spite of general
unhappiness with the licensing terms and the pricing; but there simply was no agreement
among ourselves about how to share the costs, nor did we have any expertise for
negotiating such deals. This was the catalyst for the creation in May 2001 of ANKOS, which
assumed the ISI contract and those with Ebsco, the American Mathematical Society, and
Academic Press
ANKOS is a member of ICOLC, and one or more Steering Committee members attend the

3. Annual e-ICOLC meetings. The ideas gained from interaction with other ICOLC members
Have been normously helpful in our endeavours to develop ANKOS into a sustainable
consortium. ANKOS joined e-SPARC in 2002 and is now actively promoting its aims
throughout the country. Another joint effort in which ANKOS is involved is SELL
(Southern European Libraries Link), comprised of the consortia of Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain
and Turkey. Also, with the increased focus on international cooperation, a number of ANKOS
Member libraries have joined IATUL during the past two years2
Perhaps our biggest challenge is the lack of central funding. Even if ANKOS were chartered
Under some legal instrumentality, which presently it is not, central funding would not be
guaranteed. We rely, therefore, on the voluntary sharing of costs by our members, with each
one being separately invoiced by the supplier rather than ANKOS paying a single invoice.
Another problem with funding is the vast disparity in members’ budgetary resources. It is
popularly believed that the private university libraries are the richest ones, as they operate
under educational foundations funded by wealthy benefactors. However, these universities
are charities of their benefactors, and some of them are among ANKOS’ poorest Members.
In fact, only one is among the richest members. Two others are among the top twelve in
terms of budget but the very smallest in terms of FTEs and usage statistics. Four are among
the poorest libraries. Differences between the richest and poorest State university libraries
also are considerable Only four of them have annual budgets of $1,500,000 or more, while
21 have budgets of less than $150,000.2
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is recognized today as official by international
organizations, 10 local-based, 3-based overseas, 13 vocational schools and 2 universities offering
education. There are a total of 15 active Higher Education. There are 5 universities also have to
start training.
Eastern Mediterranean University, 20,000 students from 106 different countries, and are given
training in a multicultural environment, with more than 1,100 faculty members from 35 different
countries.
Eastern mediterranean university library collection of about 160.000 books and 150 peridicals.
More importantly has mambership more then 50 online databases . in this way, all üniversity
members access to fulltext journals, e-books,indicators,statistical data or bibliographical
information resources. To reach these resources for, we spend approximately 500,000 dollars as
of this year. Missing Our needs,are solved with services such as interlibrary loan.
Northern Cyprus uses the Turkish lira. This makes the economy is completely dependent on
Turkey. Low economic growth , high inflation and high exchange rates, It increases the cost.
Every year, 8% annual inflation in the country, the cost of living is increasing continuously .

4. Currency volatility, is very important for us and it was very impressed. In early 2013, foreign
currency as $ 1 = approx. 1.80TL . but these days is around 3.00 TL.
two-year dollar /tr exchange has been try. As seen from the chart, the price of goods is rising
continuously formed.
Figure 1.3
This is the US Dollar (USD) to Turkish Lira (TRY) exchange rate history summary page,
detailing 730 days of USD TRY historical data. Deadline is Monday 15 February 2016 .
In today's information age, to collect documents and classify the collected documents, easier and
can be done quickly. Although all kinds of facilitated access to information, the new situation by
creating a new market, increased the cost of access to documents. The remuneration of the
individual article or due to pricing to be complicated access databases is a great problem for
readers. Under these circumstances, it is of great importance of open access.

5. Enterprise Archiving and Open Access
Open Access 2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative in the scientific literature and internet tools
with the financial, without legal and technical barriers, accessible, readable, can be saved,
copied, printed, scanned, include links to the full text, the software can be transferred as data and
can be used for any legal purpose It is defined as the way is open free to the public.
Why Open Access to Revealed?
1- Rising Costs
2. Transportation of Large Scientific Communication Platform
3. The Need to Increase Research Impact
4. Need for the Protection of the Digital Heritage.
What are the Benefits of Corporate Archives?
1. It opens the world output of scientific activity
2. Increase the visibility of outputs and impact
3. University, identifies potential stakeholders
4. collects and manages digital outputs
5. manages research and training activities and measures
6. Supports the work of Cooperation
7 provide working space for interdisciplinary research
8. facilitate the development and sharing of digital teaching materials
9. Students, offers a platform to share content and supporting the work of the scientific
development4,5,6
open access and archiving of enterprise, from our perspective, the most important benefit; which
is separate from the main land for our country, access to information, it is the further rise and rise
of additional costs.
One of the major barriers for scholars and researchers in universities is the lack of access to the
current literature in their subject, much of which may be published in journals that have high
annual subscription rates and so are far too expensive for many libraries.
The open access movement addresses this barrier by arguing for the "free availability of
literature 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 itself7.

6. In many countries, legal arrangements were made to ensure open access to research outputs,
which many fund provider organizations and research institutions in this direction have created
their own open-access policy.
these policies are still 'open access policy horizon 2020' Adapting and open access to the
development of the infrastructure it is common in Turkey's EU funded projects (PASTEUR4O
and openAIRE) is carried out.
In Turkey, open science and open access issues still at a high level (prime minister, ministries, et
al.) have to be addressed in a comprehensive way, the fund provider organizations and policies
that enable open access to the outputs of research with public resources are entrenched.8
Turkey, the OECD's "declaration access to publicly funded research data" that although one of
the first 30 countries signed in 2004, has not recorded much progress in this area.
TUBITAK, the Higher Education Council (YÖK), universities and research institutions that
establish policies on these issues, "Science Europe", European current research information
systems (euroCRIS) as the formation is not yet adequately represented.
Last year, the academic archive project launched (YAAP )frame by the YÖK , although many
universities have established their own open archives, open access policies are compatible with
Horizon 2020 need more powerful open access policy. TUBITAK has started working to collate
the content of setting up their own open archives and other institutional archives.8
Conclusion
In Northern Cyprus, government agencies and universities to follow these developments. but
more work needs to be done to effectively create their own archives. Our institutions are
experiencing major problems, even in the creation of data collection and archives.
These studies will support the efforts of integration with European research.
European Union, European Union law and the ban on Northern Cyprus, is recognized as a
country exempt. but at the agency level (especially municipalities, Civil society organizations
and chambers of commerce) it has a relationship.
Therefore, the following recommendations are given;
 All institutions, organizations and civil society organizations should gather information.

7.  The data collected, collated their parent organizations or institutions, the backup should
be done.
 This processes ; infrastructure, education, articles on transaction fees should be supported
by the state.
 Small and medium-sized enterprises, it should be seen as part of promoting open access
and open science.
 Copyright legislation should be revised.
 When the Open Access Infrastructure occurs, researchers should also be recorded. (eg.
Orcid)
 the archive will be created, with open access and European research infrastructure
(openAIRE) should be integrated. (corresponding open-ended software are available.) 8
 Implementation will not comply with the open access rules should be followed by the
institutions providing funding.
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