Slovenian Research Infrastructure and Open Science
Miro PušnikCentral Technological Library at the University of [email protected]
Dunja Legat,University of Maribor [email protected]
Ljubljana, October, 2015
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Some facts about Slovenia
Area: total: 20,273 sq km
Population: 2,06 mio
Main industries:
ferrous metallurgy and aluminum products;electronics;trucks, automobiles, electric power equipment, wood products, textiles, chemicals, machine tools etc.
Export: $ 28.42 billion (2014 est.): Germany – 20%, Italy, Austria, Croatia…
Import: $ 29,83 billion (2014 est.): Italy and Germany ca 16% etc.
Some facts about R&D in Slovenia
Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) in 2013: 2.59 %
Source: ARRS - Facts and Figures > Facts and Figures > International Comparisons >, http://www.arrs.gov.si/en/analize/odlicnost/izdatki.asp
R&D expenditure in the business sector, as share of GDP: 1.98 %
R&D expenditure in the government sector, as share of GDP: 0.34 %
R&D expenditure in the higher education sector, as share of GDP: 0,27%
Source: Statistical Office RS, http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/field-overview?idp=18&headerbar=3
Research organizations in Slovenia
4 universities.
15 national research institutes.
Ca. 100 private (non-profit) research institutes.
Ca. 300 research institutions from the commercial sector.
> 14.000 registered researchers .
Source: SICRIS, http://www.sicris.si/public/jqm/cris.aspx?lang=eng&opdescr=home
Slovenian Research Agency
The Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) as an independent public funding organization performs tasks related to the National Research and Development Program and the creation of the European Research Area.
Main tasks:
- to provide a framework for scientific research within the national budget and other sources,- to promote high quality scientific research in Slovenia and its application,- to foster internationally comparable evaluation standards in Slovenia,- to provide the transparency of organizing research community in Slovenia, - to promote international research cooperation,- to analyse R&D activities,- to provide science policy expertise.
Landscape of national public research infrastructure in Slovenia
- Institutional funding
- Research equipment
- Scientific periodicals
- Scientific monographs
- Scientific conferences
- Foreign scientific literature
- Central specialized information centers
- Universities
- Research institutes
Research output in Slovenia
Source: ARRS, http://www.arrs.gov.si/en/analize/odlicnost/
Number of citations in the top 1 percent most cited publications per million inhabitants
The proportion of OA Papers – Slovenia
Source: Proportion of Open Access Papers Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals at the European and World Levels—1996–2013, http://science-metrix.com/files/science-metrix/publications/d_1.8_sm_ec_dg-rtd_proportion_oa_1996-2013_v11p.pdf
Public research infrastructure in Slovenia and OA
Provisions on mandatory open accessibility (international and national funders, research organizations) - National Strategy of Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Slovenia for the period to 2020.
Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) – National Open Access Desk
National information portal (openaccess.si).
Public integrated infrastructure of open publications (institutional repositories + national portal = openscience.si).
National open data portal + regional data centers and pulling metadata from international sources.
Systematical funding and providing of the APCs activities.
Portal of the Slovenian local scientific journals.
National help desk system on open access.
Long – term management and preservation of publications and research data.
AAnaliziraj podatke / Analyze the dataDDeli raziskavo / Share the researchPPrispevaj k znanosti / Contribute to
science
From 1997: Social Science Data Archives
The group of researchers from Faculty od social sciences of University of Ljubljana
From 2010 – 2013: Project on Open Data
2013: Project report: Open data – preparing the action plan to establish the system of open access to data from public financed researches in Slovenia
• VideoLectures.NETVideoLectures.NET is an award-winning free and open access educational video lectures repository.
• The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science.
• The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not only to the scientific community but also to the general public.
• All lectures, accompanying documents, information and links are systematically selected and classified through the editorial process taking into account also users' comments
Slovenian Digital Library
From 2005: producer National and University Library, Ljubljana
From „Digital Library of Slovenia Development Strategy, 2007 – 2010“:•Most of the content is out of the copyright protection (eldeness).•Agreements with publishers for the content, that is copyright protected.•NUK: follow the direction of open access for the content, that is financed with public resources.
E-journals/Articles, co-financed by The Slovenian Book Agency or Slovenian Research Agency
and
final reports of projects, co-financed by The Slovenian Research Agency have to be deposited in dLib.si!
Slovenian OA portals and repositories before wide project in academic community
•Two major collections from University of Ljubljana (Dela EF in Dela FDV);•DKUM – »Digital library of University of Maribor« (then DRIVER compatible, evidence in DART Europe, OpenDOAR and ROAR, BASE, Celestial and WorldCat),•ePrints.FRI (then DRIVER compatible, evidence in OpenDOAR, ROAR and BASE),•»Digital repository UL FGG« (then DRIVER compatible, evidence in OpenDOAR, ROAR and BASE),•PeFprints (DRIVER compatible, evidence in OpenDOAR, ROAR and BASE, compatible with OpenAIRE),•Some digital collections of individual faculties from University of Ljubljana, University of Primorska and Univesity Nova Gorica etc.;•Social Sciences Data Archive – collection of research data;•Journal included in DOAJ ( in 2015 -
2012 – 2013: project ODUN
Pilot establishment of national open access infrastructure to study works and publications of researchers.
•Cooperation of four slovenian universities: University of Maribor, University of Ljubljana, University of Primorska and University of Nova Gorica
•Each university gets its own open access repository
•Establishment of national portal of open science called
Open Science SloveniaOpen Science Slovenia
(cooperation of research group of prof. dr. Milan Ojsteršek, UM and librarians)
The main advantages of the Slovenian infrastructure
• The plagiarism detection system.• The central recommender system.• Integration of institutional repositories with:
- the information and authentication systems of the universities, ARNES AAI,
- the national bibliographic system COBISS.SI,
- the national current research information system SICRIS and
- the national portal Open Science Slovenia.• Availability of repositories from mobile applications for Android,
Windows Phone and iOS devices. • Some new features in institutional repositories (mentor statistics,
automatic document segmentation and the normalisation of authors using CONOR.SI authority file).
2015: Slovenia adopts national strategy for Open Access
• The strategy is fully aligned with the European Commission’s OA policy in Horizon 2020.
• Publicly funded research beneficiaries must ensure open access to all peer-reviewed scientific publications.
• The national strategy proposes that 80 percent of scientific publications resultant from publicly funded research and published in 2017 become open access by 2018,
• All publicly funded scientific publications, published in 2020, become openly accessible in 2021.
• A national pilot programme on open access to research data will be carried out and research data presented in research articles must also become openly available.
• Journal publishers based in Slovenia that receive national public funding for their activities should make their research articles openly accessible.
Literature:
• Ojsteršek, M. et al. Vzpostavitev repozitorijev slovenskih univerz in nacionalnega portala odprte znanosti. Knjižnica, 58 (2014)3, str. 15-39.
• Ojsteršek, M. The Organisational and Technical Aspects of Slovenian Open Access Infrastructure. LIBER conference, London, 2015.
• National strategy of open access to scientific publications and research data in Slovenia 2015-2020. Retrieved 28. 9. 2015 from: http://www.mizs.gov.si/fileadmin/mizs.gov.si/pageuploads/Znanost/doc/Zakonodaja/Strategije/National_strategy_for_open_access_21._9._2015.pdf