Prepared by Turkey National Teamin Turkey

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

Sofia, 04.-17. September, 2011

Background• Open archiving efforts in Turkey started in

2001, at Ankara University, by depositing the fulltext electronic versions of printed serials containing the scientific production of academics.

• Emergence of the concept of Open Access or institutional archive in universities has started in 2005

Background

• The fırst experimental  open Access archive started at Hacettepe University in a Ph.D thesis in the 2004-2005 academic year

• In Turkey, the open access activities of universities began to increase in December 2005, after the 10th Internet in Turkey Conference held in İstanbul Bahçeşehir University.

Education of OA

• In 2006, in Denizli was held the 4th Academic Informatics Conference.

• The participants were provided with general information on the definitions and uses of open access, institutional repositories and institutional archives (Turkfidani, Moral and Gurdal, 2010)

• In the last session of the conference, the council stated the Open Access Declaration according to Berlin Declaration.

• A Board of Open Access and Institutional Archive Advisors was formed comprising members from Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS), The Turkish Library Association (TKD), the University and Research Libraries Association (ÜNAK) and the Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre (ULAKBİM), The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)

• During this period many conferences, round tables, workshops were held and reports and scientific researches were published.

OA Softwares

Examples of OA Archives• Ankara University Open archive system• Ataturk University Open archive system• Atilim University Open archive system • Gazi University Open archive system • Sabanci University Open archive system • Bahcesehir University• Istanbul Technical University• Izmir Institute of Technology • Turkish Higher Education Council Thesis archive

Contents of OA Archives

• Articles• Declarations• Unprinted conference • Abstracts• Lecture notes• Theses• Flyers• Books• etc

General Overview of Scientific Journals in Turkey

Source: Ulrich’s Periodicals Director, Turkfidani, Moral and Gurdal, 2010)

Turkey in

• 2011 statistics,

• th place

• 35 Journals added in 2011

• Total: 171 journals

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Turkey in Open DOAR

• 11 Registered Repositories from Turkey• Most of them are university repositories • 3 Softwares– Dspace– Eprints– Mitos

Examples - Mitos

Examples - Dspace

Examples - Eprints

Turkey in Open ROAR

• 19 Registered Repositories from Turkey• Most of them are university repositories• 1 Research cross-institutional• 5 e-journals/publications• 1 e-thesis• 3 Softwares

Examples

Examples- Research cross-institutional

Examples-journals

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