Open Access to Croatian Scientific Journals

Croatian national team (Ana Gabrijela Blažević, Ivica Čevis, Davor Ferković, Ida Indir, Martina

Maksimkov, Petra Miočić, Martina Salaj)

IP LibCMASS Sofia 2011Contract № 2011-ERA-IP-7

Sofia, 04.-17. September, 2011

International initatives in Croatia

• Croatian initiative is based on 3 documents :

– Budapest OA initiative – Berlin declaration on OA to knowledge in the

sciences and humanities – Bethesda statment on OA publishing

Open Access in Croatia

• Collaboration between CLA and CIDA

• CIDA cofounder and codeveloper of Hrčak

• Croatia is peripheral scientific community

Open Access in Croatia

3 specificities in Croatia:

• Accessibility (and visibility) problem

• Language

• Scientific publisher types

Croatian open repositories in ROAR, DOAR and DOAJ

• ROAR finds Hrčak, Digital archive of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and Digital Repository of Medical faculty in Zagreb.

• Open DOAR finds Digital archive of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, FAMENA PhD Collection, FOI digital library, Hrčak and Digital Repository of Medical faculty in Zagreb.

• DOAJ finds 80 results.

80 resultsAll publications are free to use.Some of them are connected to Hrčak and the

others are connected to their own web repositories.

• Scientific area wich are covered: Oceanography, Botany, Medicine, Arts, Computer science, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Agriculture, History, Archeology, Anthropology, Chemistry, Religion, Nutrition and Food Sciences, Forestry, Sociology, Economics, Philosophy, Physics, Languages and Literature, Geography, Mechanical Engineering

Hrčak: Portal of scientific journals of Croatia

• http://hrcak.srce.hr/• Hrčak is the central portal of Croatian scientific

journals. • Hrčak offers the access to the journals following

the Open Access Initiative. • Hrčak stat:

Journals: 266 Issues: 4999 Articles without full text: 4521 Articles with full text: 65327

Hrčak: Portal of scientific journals of Croatia

• You can browse journals by scientific areas:• Natural sciences• Technical sciences• Biomedicine and health• Biotechnical sciences• Social sciences• Humanities

Hrčak: Portal of scientific journals of Croatia

• There is also Alphabetical journals list and Artical search.

• In Advanced search you can search through articles by author, title, abstract, keyword, publisher, journal, scientific field, fulltext, year and language.

• If you have problems with search, you can use Search instructions.

University of Zagreb Medical School Repository

http://medlib.mef.hr/ It is possible to make open access to directory without

registration. Full text is available.Items may be browsed by the following:NLM ClassificationMentorAuthorItem typeYou can search specific paper by Full

Text/Title/Croatian abstract/Authors/Creators/Date.

Digital archive of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in

Zagreb• http://darhiv.ffzg.hr/• It is possible to make open access to directory

without registration. • Items may be browsed by the following: – Year, Area of expertise and Department

• It can be searched by year, author or by title• It is posible to see full text only if paper is also

in Hrčak database.

FOI digital library

• http://library.foi.hr/dlib/index.php• Digital library of Faculty of Organisation and

Informatics in Varaždin• For browsing and searching in FOI digital

library you must be logged in.

Bibliography• FOI http://library.foi.hr/dlib/index.php• Digitalni arhiv Filozofskog fakulteta

http://darhiv.ffzg.hr/• Repozitorij Medicinskog fakulteta

http://medlib.mef.hr/ • Hrčak http://hrcak.srce.hr/• Registry of Open Access Repositories

http://roar.eprints.org/• OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/find.php • DOAJ http://www.doaj.org/

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