OA Repositories Special and Academic Libraries in Zagreb

OA Repositories @ Special and Academic Libraries in Zagreb Ivana Hebrang Grgić, M. A. Ana Barbarić, Ph. D. Iva Džambaski, student Department of Information Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb

Introduction Ø Increasing number of scientific journals Ø Technological development Ø Electronic publishing became a new way of making research results available to scientists and wider public.

Open Access Movement 3 B initiatives: Ø Ø Ø 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 Ø Valuable initiative for achieving better visibility of research results Ø More than 200 Croatian OA journals Ø Few institutional OA repositories

The Research Ø Ø 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 Ø Ø 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?

Launching the repository?

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

Who should have access to the repository?

Number of persons responsible for maintanance

Which software should be used?

Material types

Archiving of material in a repository

Should consent for archiving be sought from a copyright owner?

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 Ø Ø 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.

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