Serbia has adopted a national science policy! : OpenAIRE blog
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Summary:
"Serbia has adopted a national science policy on July 14th, 2018, called the ‘Open Science Platform’. The Serbian version of the policy is available on the official webpage of the Serbian Ministry (MESTD) and the version in English is available on OpenAIRE. The discussion about OS in Serbia started in 2014. At the time, in Serbia, OA was mandated only for PhD theses. Therefore, a working group was established by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MESTD) with the task of preparing a funder Open Science policy. As the Ministry is the main funder of research in Serbia, such a policy would also serve as a national OA policy. The initial draft for the policy was provided by the PASTEUR40A team. The draft was further developed after this project ended...."