Open Access Projects in Lithuania

Meilė KretavičienėLibrary and Health Sciences Information Center, Kaunas University of MedicineMeile.Kretaviciene@kmu.lt dr. Žibutė PetrauskienėVilnius University LibraryZibute.petrauskiene@mb.vu.lt Antanas ŠtreimikisDepartment of Information Technology Development Center, Kaunas University of Technologyantanas@library.lt

Outline

• Open Access in Lithuania: initiatives, situation, policy.

• eLABa: description, goals and functions, statistics, problems, expectations.

• Outcomes.

OA in Lithuania: Initiatives

Membership in BioMedCentral: • The Institute of Oncology Vilnius University 2004-• Kaunas University of Medicine Library 2003-2006DOAJ – 13 journals (2009)Workshops :• Open Access and Scholarly Communication, 2005 / LMBA, OSI; speakers Melissa Hagemann, Raym Crow, Lilian van der Vaart,

Jean-Claude Guédon, et al.• Open Access - Revolution in the Scholarly Publishing? / LMBA, LABT.

2005• OA in European Union and Lithuania/ SPARC, LMBA, Ministry of

Education and Science. 2008• Quality Assurance of Scientific Information in Open Access / Open Access

Day – October 14, 2008/ Ministry of Education and Science, Research Council of Lithuania, LMBA

OA in Lithuania: Situation and Policy

• Governmental level: Law on science and studies (12 05 2009). • Article 45. Publicity of the results of scientific activity:

• 1. In order to guarantee the quality, transparency of the scientific research and to stimulate scientific advancement carried out utilising state budget funds, all the results of the scientific activity carried out in the state science and study institutions must be made public (via the internet and by other means) if this is in agreement with laws regulating intellectual property and protection of the commercial, state or work related secrets.

• 2. Results of scientific activity carried out at non-governmental institutions of science and studies using state budget funds must be made public (via the internet and by other means) if this is in agreement with laws regulating intellectual property and protection of the commercial or state secret.

• Institutional level: Vilnius University Library prepared a Regulations of Open Access to Scientific Information of Vilnius University (accepted by University Senate Committee on 8 10 2009).

eLABa – Lithuanian Academic e-Library (1)

• Beginning: 2006.• Main data suppliers are Lithuanian science institutions. • Main goal is to create the environment and means and using

them to prepare, accumulate and store for a long period of time Lithuanian science and study e-documents and to deliver them to the users via different outputs.

• Other goals:• to create the e-publishing infrastructure for Lithuanian science

and studies• to create the eLABa means and environment for e-document

preparation, accumulation, long-term storage and delivery • to employ the means that have been created – Lithuanian Virtual

Library (LVB) and full-text database (VDDB), including services being delivered by them

eLABa (2)

• Main functions :• to provide science and study publications using

automated sequences of e-publishing procedures• to gather, catalogue, collect and store for a long-term

periods science and study e-documents• to ensure information search and direct and

permanent access to the science and study documents

• to guarantee harvesting of metadata of eLABa objects via OAI-PMH protocol for Google and other information search systems on the Internet

eLABa Legal Regulations

No. Documents’ Level Institutional Level Documents

1 RegulationsMinistry of Education and Science

Regulations of eLABaGuidelines for procedures description for ETD’s preparation, presentation for submission and submission to eLABa repositories and usage

2 RulesLithuanian Academic and Science Institutions

Procedures for ETD’s preparation, presentation for submission and submission to eLABa repositories and usage

3 Documents eLABaLicense agreementseLABa documents including ETDs

eLABa Collections

ETD Books Journals ProceedingsWorking papers

Empirical data

Total

All institutions 11790 56 4023 34 1 100 16004

eLABa e-Documents and REFER Records (excluding ETDs)

e-DocumentsREFER

RecordsTotal

LABT-U 2410 36797 39207LABT-K 145 1551 1696LABT-M 1664 24258 25922Total 4219 62606 66825

eLABa Collections (excluding ETD)

Books Journals ProceedingsWorking papers

Empirical data

TotalBook series

Books Journals Numbers Articles EventsProcee-dings

Working papers

LiDA objects

All institutions 1 55 63 281 3679 2 32 1 100 4214

Submission to eLABa ETD Collection (Lithuanian ETD Database) as per Institution

No. Institution BT MT WPGA DD DDS SWRHP Total1 KMU 1 489 1 153 37 6812 KTU 897 51 9483 KU 22 224 LKKA 11 522 1 10 5445 LMTA 5 56 LVA 165 42 2077 LŽŪU 1 935 24 9608 MRU 1815 10 36 18619 ŠU 1337 22 20 1379

10 VDA 4 411 VDU 1133 57 61 125112 VGTU 435 209 211 85513 VPU 2092 3 6 6 210714 VU 672 47 41 29 78915 ISMVEU 141 29 7 177

Total 154 10547 9 512 539 29 11790

BT – Bachelor thesesMT – Master thesesWPGA – Works by post-graduate of artDD – Doctoral dissertationsDDS – Doctoral dissertation's summariesSWRHP – Science works for habilitation procedures

Submission to eLABa ETD Collection (Lithuanian ETD Database) in 2004-2009

Year BT MT WPGA DD DDS SWRHP Total

2004 275 5 15 15 3102005 1235 0 71 109 14152006 1832 0 100 72 20042007 1861 3 72 82 20182008 2064 0 116 131 23112009 154 3280 1 138 130 29 3732Total 154 10547 9 512 539 29 11790

BT – Bachelor thesesMT – Master thesesWPGA – Works by post-graduate of artDD – Doctoral dissertationsDDS – Doctoral dissertation's summariesSWRHP – Science works for habilitation procedures

Availability of ETDs 30 of September, 2009

AvailabilityOn

submissionNow

Unrestricted 3442 6616Available in intranet only 4377 2384Withheld 3971 2790Total 11790

All institutions

Front-end Services for Users

• Aleph OPAC• Lithuanian Virtual Library (LVB)

Portal (http://www.lvb.lt)

eLABa via Aleph OPAC. Interface

eLABa via Aleph OPAC. Search results

eLABaeLABa via LVB with MetaLib. via LVB with MetaLib. InterfaceInterface

eLABaeLABa via LVB with MetaLib. via LVB with MetaLib. Search resultsSearch results

eLABaeLABa via LVB with MetaLib. via LVB with MetaLib. List of the resultsList of the results

SFX Services (1)

SFX Services (2)

eLABaeLABa via LVB with Primo. via LVB with Primo. Interface (Interface (http://primo.library.lt)http://primo.library.lt)

eLABaeLABa via LVB with Primo. via LVB with Primo. Short descriptionShort description

eLABaeLABa via LVB with Primo. via LVB with Primo. Full textFull text

OA/eLABa: problems

• The lack of an institutional policies.

• Situation with copyright.

• The lack of interest from decision makers (institutional and national level).

• The lack of financial support from national funding programme’s.

About eLABa development (1)• New project for 2009-2010 designed for eLABa

development is being prepared for application to European Social Funds support

• The applicant is Kaunas University of Medicine

• All institutions, which have signed corresponding cooperation agreements regarding eLABa development, are invited to become the participants of the project

• The value of the project is approximately 430 thousand EUR

• The main goal of the project is to integrate Lithuanian Science Publications Database (PDB) into eLABa thus creating expanded eLABa

About eLABa development (2)

• While implementing the project:• eLABa regulations will be improved

• Convenient tools for full-text submission to eLABa repositories together with PDB bibliographic records will be created

• 65 librarians will be trained

• About 30 thousand bibliographic records of science publications announced by authors from institutions participating in the project and about 4500 related full-texts will be accumulated

Conclusions (1)

• eLABa represents best practices of Open Access in Lithuania.

• Having created and implemented eLABa, not only scientific institutions and researchers will benefit, but other persons related to science and the state as well.

• eLABa implementation will promote scientific research and usage of research results.

Conclusions (2)

• eLABa will be useful for business sector, for scientific institutions and communities from the EU and from all over the world that are developing their cooperation in the fields of studies and conducting the common scientific research work.

• Development of eLABa is important and it is supported by the our Ministry of Education and Science.

Thank You for the attention!

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