Dimitar Poposki is a PhD candidate at the University of Zagreb who is advocating for open access in Macedonia. The document outlines what open access infrastructure currently exists in Macedonia, such as 12 open access journals and a national digital library, but more is needed, including open access policies, institutional repositories, and public awareness. It also discusses the differences between gold open access journals and green open access through institutional repositories, noting gold open access has led the way in Macedonia through the use of open journal systems and OAI-PMH protocols.

1. Dimitar Poposki
PhD candidate
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social sciences,
Department of Information and Communication Science

2. WHAT WE HAVE WHAT WE NEED
 12 OA journals listed in Directory of  Serious approach toward national
Open Access Journals infrastructure
(only 1 with Impact Factor –
Open Access pioneer - MJCCE  Functional national/local repository
http://194.149.146.33/index.php/MJCCE/index
)  Open Access Policies/Institutional mandates
 National digital library  Active involvement of Information
(cultural heritage collections, rare books,
manuscripts) professionals/architects
(http://www.dlib.mk)
 Scholarly communication centre at
 National library – Virtual Library of Faculty/University level
Macedonia
(http://www.vbm.mk/cobiss/)  Information literacy trainers
 1 DSpace repository (404 file not  Open culture/Open data movement
found)
http://metamorphosis.mk/digitalniskladista/skladishta/
 Public awareness for openness/open science

3. Green Gold OA
OA
Electronic Journals
 Electronic Journals
Institutional
 Repositories
CC-BY for
 CC-BY for all OA journals
all OA journals
DSpace
 (Macedonian, Albanian)
http://metamorphosis.mk/digitalniskladista/
http://metamorphosis.mk/digitalniskladista/ Open Journal Systems

FEDORA
http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs

http://duraspace.org/
Publishing platform
 Publishing platform that supports
OAI
 – PMH that supports
OAI – PMH
OAI – PMH
http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/ http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/
http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/

4.  Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering (OJS)
http://194.149.146.33/index.php/MJCCE
 Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences (β)
http://www.mjms.ukim.edu.mk/
 Journal of Special Education & Rehabilitation
(β)
http://jser.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/

5. Gold OA road
Vs
Green OA road
 Gold OA
 First OA e-journals lead the way in implementing Gold OA approach
 Main reason: Use of Open Journal Systems (OAI PMH)
 Green OA
 Institutional repository (Green OA) might come after the Gold OA
 Main reason: situation concerning academic publishing and low level
of information literacy/academic OA publishing)

8. THANK YOU 4 supporting #openaccess!
@poposkidimitar http://www.netvibes.com/poposkidimitar
@OpenAccessMKD http://www.scoop.it/t/open-access-mkd
@OER_MKD http://www.scoop.it/t/oermkd
http://poposkidimitar.googlepages.com/home
http://independent.academia.edu/DimitarPoposki
http://www.linkedin.com/in/poposkidimitar
http://paper.li/poposkidimitar#