This document discusses open access to scientific databases and information sharing. It defines open access as free online access to scholarly publications. It outlines the promotion of open access in Romania through initiatives like institutional repositories and open access journals. Examples are provided of some of the first institutional repositories created in Romania along with the number of items available in each. The document also lists several digital library initiatives and open access scientific databases that provide multidisciplinary open access scholarly content.

1. OPEN ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC DATABASES:
A NEW GATEWAY FOR INFORMATION SHARING
Librarian Lenuta URSACHI
Prof.PhD.Eng. Elena SCUTELNICU

2. OUTLINE
I. Background
II. Promotion of OA in Romania
III. Implementation of OA in Romania
IV. OA scientific databases
V. Other useful links related to OA
VI. Conclusions
References
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3. BACKGROUND
DEFINITION
to access the online information for free and by anyone interested
to use it.
OPEN ACCESS
PUBLISHING
Creative Commons GOLDEN WAY (open access journals)
Licenses (CC) – help GREEN WAY (institutional repositories)
creators retain
copyright while allowing
others to copy, SUPPORT
UNESCO UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN COMMISSION
distribute and make
some use of their work.
INITIATIVES
Budapest OAI Principles of ACRL IFLA Statement
Bethesda Statement Berlin Declaration Ghent Declaration
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4. PROMOTION OF OA IN ROMANIA
 promoting the university scientific outputs through institutional digital repositories;
 creating and developing the first institutional repository in Romania (ASPECKT);
 recommending to include the OA resources in bibliographies/references.
 publishing articles related to OA: IFLA position, Ghent Declaration, OA week;
 promoting OpenAIRE Project;
 open letter addressed to Romanian Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
 adoption of Berlin Declaration;
 the Motion on OA to scientific information addressed to ABR academic
institutional members
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5. IMPLEMENTATION OF OA IN ROMANIA
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES INITIATIVES
 ASPECKT, hosted by “Transilvania” University of Brasov,
http://aspeckt.unitbv.ro/jspui/
 IRCULB, hosted by “Carol I” Central University Library of Bucharest,
http://cachescan.bcub.ro:8080/jspui/
 ARTHRA, hosted by “Dunarea de Jos” University Library of Galati,
www.lib.ugal.ro/arthra
 Digital Library, hosted by “Lucian Blaga” Central University Library of
Cluj-Napoca, http://dspace.bcucluj.ro/
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6. IMPLEMENTATION OF OA IN ROMANIA
ASPECKT
Doctoral theses Mechatronics
Dissertations Automative Engineering
Undergraduate theses Electrical Engineering
Research papers Law
Articles
~ 200 items
IRCULB
Doctoral theses Librarianship
Dissertations Philology
Articles Mathematics
Papers edited by the library Physics
~ 100 items
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7. IMPLEMENTATION OF OA IN ROMANIA
ARTHRA
Bibliographies Librarianship (167)
Abstracts of doctoral theses Various areas (101)
Papers edited by the library
Dissertations
Annals of DJUG
Articles
~ 270 items
DL-LBCUL
Old and rare books Librarianship
Manuscripts History
Iconographic materials Philosophy
Periodicals Religion
Bibliographies Philology
Papers edited by the library Arts etc.
> 21,000 items

8. IMPLEMENTATION OF OA IN ROMANIA
DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVES
BIBLIOR, Romanian Virtual Library
Dacoromanica, Bucharest Metropolitan Library
Personalităţi care au schimbat lumea,
Romanian Academy Library
National Digital Library, Romania National
Library
Digital Library of CIMEC, Institute for Cultural
Memory
Digital Library of Bucharest Academy of
Economic Studies
Memoria, ASPERA Foundation
Mures Digital Library, Mures County Library
Online Publications, „Ioan N. Roman” Constanta
County Library
Gazeta de Transilvania, „George Baritiu” Brasov
County Library
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9. IMPLEMENTATION OF OA IN ROMANIA
DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVES
ROMANIAN PARTNERS
"Panait Istrati" Library - Braila County
"V.A. Urechia" Library - Galati County
"Octavian Goga" Library - Cluj County
National Archives - Cluj County
"G. T. Kirileanu" Library - Neamt County
cIMeC - Institute for Cultural Memory
"Lucian Blaga" University Library - Sibiu
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10. OA SCIENTIFIC DATABASES
Academic Journals
M
M Hindawi Publishing Corporation
http://www.academicjournals.org/ U
U http://www.hindawi.com/
L
L
Bentham Open Access Journals International Scholarly Research Network
http://www.benthamscience.com/open/ T
T http://www.isrn.com
II
Canadian Center of Science and Education Medknow Publications
http://www.ccsenet.org/web D
D http//ww.medknow.com
II
Copernicus Publications S
S MDPI
http://publications.copernicus.org/open_a http://www.mdpi.com/about/journals/
ccess_journals/open_access_journals_a_
C
C
z.html II MIT OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
Dart-Europe E-These Portal
P
P
http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php L
L Multi Science Publishing
II http://www.multi-science.co.uk/ms-
Directory of Open Journals (DOAJ) journals.htm
http://www.doaj.org/ N
N
A
A SCIENCEDOMAIN International
HighWire Stanford University R http://www.sciencedomain.org/index.php
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.
R
dtl Y
Y
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11. OA SCIENTIFIC DATABASES
M
M
U
U
L
L
T
T
II
D
D
II
Scientific Research. SCIRP Open Access S
S VERSITA OPEN
http://www.scirp.org/ C
C http://www.versitaopen.com
II
P
P
L
L
II
N
N
A
A
R
R
Y
Y
World Academy of Science, Engineering and
SpringerLink – Open Access Journals
http://www.springerlink.com/journals/open/ Technology
http://www.waset.org
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12. OA SCIENTIFIC DATABASES
SPECIALIZED DATABASES
BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Palgrave Open biology and medicine
http://www.palgrave- Internet Scientific Publications
journals.com/palgraveopen/index.html
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
health and social sciences
medicine
Geoscience e-Journals Public Library of Science
http://www.univ- http://www.plos.org
brest.fr/geosciences/e-journals/
Earth sciences biology and medicine
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13. OA SCIENTIFIC DATABASES
http://www.slideshare.net/lursachi/baze-de-date-n-acces-deschis
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14. OTHER USEFUL LINKS RELATED TO OA
OPEN ACCESS COMMUNITIES
AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM list KOSSON
BOAI [Budapest Open Access Initiative] Forum SPARC
Confederation of Open Access Repositories WSIS OA Knowledge Community
eIFL Open Access mailing list Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
IFLA-L mailing list Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook
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15. OTHER USEFUL LINKS RELATED TO OA
OPEN
ACCESS
COMMUNITIES
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16. OTHER USEFUL LINKS RELATED TO OA
REPOSITORIES OR DIGITAL LIBRARIES
DRIVER (The Digital Repository Open Repository
Infrastructure Vision for European http://www.openrepository.com/
Research) OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure
http://www.driver-community.eu/ for Research in Europe)
Open Access Map (Journals, http://www.openaire.eu/
Repositories, Policies) OpenDOAR
http://www.openaccessmap.org/ http://www.opendoar.org/search.php
Open Archive Initiative Ranking Web of World Repositories
http://www.openarchives.org/ http://repositories.webometrics.info/
Open Library ROAR (Registry of Open Access
http://openlibrary.org/ Repositories)
http://roar.eprints.org/
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17. OTHER USEFUL LINKS RELATED TO OA
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E
P
O
S
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R
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18. CONCLUSIONS
is useful and is an is the path for represents a
beneficial for opportunity for increasing way of sharing
under- developing visibility and research which
privileged digital libraries citation rates makes the
communities or using open through progress
economically source software repositories possible a national OA
disadvantaged portal should be
institutions developed in order
to collect and
disseminate the
digital content
processed and
1 2 3 4 5 organized within
digital libraries,
archives or
institutional
repositories.
OPEN ACCESS
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19. REFERENCES
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http://scholarship.utm.edu/20/1/SPARC_102.pdf
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20. THANK YOU!
Lenuta URSACHI
Dunarea de Jos University Library of Galati
Domneasca St. 47, 800008, Galati, Romania
www.lib.ugal.ro
Reference Department
www.wix.com/lursachi/budjg_referinte
Tel.: +40 336 130 134
Fax: +40 236 461 353
lenuta.ursache@ugal.ro