Open Access Turkey: NATIONAL OPEN ACCESS WORKSHOP REPORT
abernard102@gmail.com 2013-01-03
Summary:
"Hosted by Hacettepe University, the Turkish National Open Access Workshop took place in Ankara, Turkey, from November 8-9, 2012. The workshop was part of the Mediterranean Open Access Network (MedOANet) project (www.medoanet.eu) supported by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (7FP) and organized by Hacettepe University’s Department of Information Management, a partner of the MedOANet project, in cooperation with Izmir Institute of Technology, a partner of the Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) plus project (www.openaire.eu). The two-day workshop comprised the following types of constributions: invited talks; presentations by the country coordinators of the MedOANet and OpenAIREplus projects and by the Open Access and Institutional Repositories (AEKA) Working Group of the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS); a practical session on setting up and institutional repository (IR) using DSpace; and presentations on various OA-related issues (e.g., copyright, Creative Commons licenses, open courseware) related with Open Access (OA). The workshop programme is available at http://www.acikerisim.org/wpcontent/uploads/2012/10/ae2012_program_en.pdf along with the
presentation slides at http://www.acikerisim.org/calistay-sunumlari/. The national workshop on OA drew about 200 participants from various sectors (two thirds represented research performing organizations (RPOs), 15% public institutions and 20% publishers, database producers, aggregators and students). A declaration on OA and IRs was issued at the end of
the workshop. What follows is a brief summary of the workshop activities..."