Our open roads: RBI Library OA activities

Ruđer Bošković Institute Library has been actively promoting Open Access for many years, implementing it in all aspects of Library work. Poster will present various Library activities based on OA: development of FULIR – Full-text Institutional Repository of the Ruđer Bošković Institute; participation in EU projects connected with OA (FP7 project Support for Establishment of National/Regional Social Sciences Data Archives (SERSCIDA), FP7 project OpenAIREplus (2nd Generation of Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), Horizon2020 project OpenAIRE2020, FP7 project Facilitate open science training for European research – FOSTER); participating in Croatian OA projects (HRČAK - central portal of Croatian scientific journals published in open access, DABAR (Digital Academic Archives and Repositories) – project will provide an infrastructure for setting up various digital repositories to all institutions-members of Croatian academic community); successful advocating for self-archiving mandate on institutional level for RBI; students education on university level; library staff is holding courses covering OA topics on several faculties; education about OA for RBI staff (workshops, lectures, one-to-one counseling…); various other activities (working on Croatian Declaration on Open Access; promoting OA during RBI Open Days through presentations for public…)