Serbia adopts national open science policy | EIFL

"The Serbian Government has adopted a national policy mandating open access (OA) to all publications resulting from publicly-funded research in Serbia. The policy, titled the Open Science Platform, was introduced by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MESTD), the main funder for research in Serbia, in July 2018. EIFL welcomes the adoption of the policy, which makes a major contribution to improving visibility and discoverability of Serbian research outputs. A working group set up by MESTD, including stakeholders from the Serbian research and library sectors, led policy development. Two major European Union-funded projects PASTEUR4OA and OpenAIRE, in which EIFL is a partner, contributed to the policy drafting process...."