Biljana Kosanovic's presentation on the International Conference e-Society.mk 2012, held annually in Skopje, Macedonia, entitled "Open Education for an Open Society – Let’s Share the Knowledge!"

1. Open Access National Repository of EU
Funded Project :
Serbian Experience
Biljana Kosanovic
National Library of Serbia
www.e-society.mk

2. Reasons
in Serbia
• more researchers in EU funded project
• no practice in institutional repositories
in Europe
• EU mandate policies for OA
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3. EU funded projects
• Council Conclusions on scientific information in the
digital age: access, dissemination and preservation
(2007)
• Pilot project OpenAir (2008). Seven fields:
1. Energy
2. Environment (including Climate Change)
3. Health
4. Information and Communication Technologies (Cognitive
Systems, Interaction, Robotics)
5. Research Infrastructures (e-infrastructures)
6. Science in society
7. Socio-economic sciences and the humanities
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4. www.e-society.mk

5. Serbia numbers
• number of EU funded projects 198
• 27 signed Clause 39:
– In addition to Article II.30.4, beneficiaries shall deposit an
electronic copy of the published version or the final manuscript
accepted for publication of a scientific publication relating to
foreground published before or after the final report in an
institutional or subject-based repository at the moment of
publication.
• they don't know what they signed
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6. www.e-society.mk

7. cca 60 articles
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8. Our goals
(1) to expand our knowledge about EU policies on
Open Access
(2) to implement the policies proposed by EU
Commission
(3) to contribute in increase visibility of our
researchers papers and research data
NasiuFP Repository
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