Ruđer Bošković Institute adopts Open Access Mandate (Croatia) : OpenAIRE blog

"As of April 17, 2015, all papers produced by Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI) researchers must be submitted to the institutional OA repository FULIR (which is OpenAIRE compliant)  upon acceptance for publication. The first institutional Open Access mandate in Croatia is based on  the Croatian Open Access Declaration (October 2012),  'Recommendation on access to and preservation of scientific information' by the European Commission(July 2012) , and best practices of the prominent research and academic institution across the world. The Mandate was signed by the RBI general director dr. sc. Tome Antičić.  All employees of the RBI are obliged to deposit in the institutional OA repository FULIR a digital copy of all their publications, and should provide Open Access whenever possible. Publication types include journal articles, conference proceedings papers, book chapters, books and textbooks, graduation theses and dissertations, presentations and posters from conferences, presentations and materials from lectures held at RBI and other institutions, educational materials and technical reports. All publications will be stored, preserved, and made available as soon as possible ..."