Visibility of Open Acces Repositories of Digital University Libraries: A Case Study of the EU Visegrád Group

Erzsebet Dani

For scientific research institutions, as well as for scientists individually, the degree of accessibility of a given institution’s and of an individual researcher’s scientific achievement is of growing significance in this world of the internet: i.e., it is vitally important to know about and to have easy access to what research is conducted in what fields and with what results in the different institutions. In this study I intend to survey the present situation concerning the homepages of leading universities of the so-called Visegrad Group inside the European Union and the extent to which the present situation serves or fails to serve the cause of the philosophy of open access. My aim is twofold. (1) I will consider whether the scienetific-knowledge repositories built by universities are accessible or not, and/or how easy or difficult it is to access them. Provided that those repositories exist at all, because, in spite of the fact that the Berlin Declaration is generally adopted in principle, the homepages of a good number of the surveyed Visegrad Group universities or libraries do not make their research databases easily accessible or accessible at all, or they can be accessed in the given national language only. (2)

[1] http://openaccess.mpg.de/286432/Berlin-Declaration [09.18.2013.]
[2] https://www.openaire.eu/en/contact-us/partners

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