Open Access Projects in Lithuania Meilė Kretavičienė Library and Health Sciences Information Center, Kaunas University of Medicine dr. Žibutė Petrauskienė Vilnius University Library Antanas Štreimikis Department of Information Technology Development Center, Kaunas University of Technology

Outline Open Access in Lithuania: initiatives, situation, policy. eLABa: description, goals and functions, statistics, problems, expectations. Outcomes.

OA in Lithuania: Initiatives Membership in BioMedCentral: The Institute of Oncology Vilnius University Kaunas University of Medicine Library DOAJ – 13 journals (2009) Workshops : Open Access and Scholarly Communication, 2005 / LMBA, OSI; speakers Melissa Hagemann, Raym Crow, Lilian van der Vaart, Jean-Claude Guédon, et al. Open Access - Revolution in the Scholarly Publishing? / LMBA, LABT OA in European Union and Lithuania/ SPARC, LMBA, Ministry of Education and Science Quality Assurance of Scientific Information in Open Access / Open Access Day – October 14, 2008/ Ministry of Education and Science, Research Council of Lithuania, LMBA

OA in Lithuania: Situation and Policy Governmental level: Law on science and studies ( ). Article 45. Publicity of the results of scientific activity: 1. In order to guarantee the quality, transparency of the scientific research and to stimulate scientific advancement carried out utilising state budget funds, all the results of the scientific activity carried out in the state science and study institutions must be made public (via the internet and by other means) if this is in agreement with laws regulating intellectual property and protection of the commercial, state or work related secrets. 2. Results of scientific activity carried out at non-governmental institutions of science and studies using state budget funds must be made public (via the internet and by other means) if this is in agreement with laws regulating intellectual property and protection of the commercial or state secret. Institutional level: Vilnius University Library prepared a Regulations of Open Access to Scientific Information of Vilnius University (accepted by University Senate Committee on ).

eLABa – Lithuanian Academic e-Library (1) Beginning: Main data suppliers are Lithuanian science institutions. Main goal is to create the environment and means and using them to prepare, accumulate and store for a long period of time Lithuanian science and study e-documents and to deliver them to the users via different outputs. Other goals: to create the e-publishing infrastructure for Lithuanian science and studies to create the eLABa means and environment for e-document preparation, accumulation, long-term storage and delivery to employ the means that have been created – Lithuanian Virtual Library (LVB) and full-text database (VDDB), including services being delivered by them

eLABa (2) Main functions : to provide science and study publications using automated sequences of e-publishing procedures to gather, catalogue, collect and store for a long-term periods science and study e-documents to ensure information search and direct and permanent access to the science and study documents to guarantee harvesting of metadata of eLABa objects via OAI-PMH protocol for Google and other information search systems on the Internet

eLABa Legal Regulations No.Documents’ LevelInstitutional LevelDocuments 1Regulations Ministry of Education and Science  Regulations of eLABa  Guidelines for procedures description for ETD’s preparation, presentation for submission and submission to eLABa repositories and usage 2Rules Lithuanian Academic and Science Institutions  Procedures for ETD’s preparation, presentation for submission and submission to eLABa repositories and usage 3DocumentseLABa  License agreements  eLABa documents including ETDs

eLABa Collections ETDBooksJournalsProceedings Working papers Empirical data Total All institutions

eLABa e-Documents and REFER Records (excluding ETDs) e-Documents REFER Records Total LABT-U LABT-K LABT-M Total

eLABa Collections (excluding ETD) BooksJournalsProceedings Working papers Empirical data Total Book series BooksJournalsNumbersArticlesEvents Procee- dings Working papers LiDA objects All institutions

Submission to eLABa ETD Collection (Lithuanian ETD Database) as per Institution No.InstitutionBTMTWPGADDDDSSWRHPTotal 1KMU KTU KU 22 4LKKA LMTA 55 6LVA LŽŪU MRU ŠU VDA 44 11VDU VGTU VPU VU ISMVEU Total BT – Bachelor theses MT – Master theses WPGA – Works by post-graduate of art DD – Doctoral dissertations DDS – Doctoral dissertation's summaries SWRHP – Science works for habilitation procedures

Submission to eLABa ETD Collection (Lithuanian ETD Database) in YearBTMTWPGADDDDSSWRHPTotal Total BT – Bachelor theses MT – Master theses WPGA – Works by post-graduate of art DD – Doctoral dissertations DDS – Doctoral dissertation's summaries SWRHP – Science works for habilitation procedures

Availability of ETDs 30 of September, 2009 Availability On submission Now Unrestricted Available in intranet only Withheld Total11790 All institutions

Front-end Services for Users Aleph OPAC Lithuanian Virtual Library (LVB) Portal (

eLABa via Aleph OPAC. Interface

eLABa via Aleph OPAC. Search results

eLABa via LVB with MetaLib. Interface

eLABa via LVB with MetaLib. Search results

eLABa via LVB with MetaLib. List of the results

SFX Services (1)

SFX Services (2)

eLABa via LVB with Primo. Interface (

eLABa via LVB with Primo. Short description

eLABa via LVB with Primo. Full text

OA/eLABa: problems The lack of an institutional policies. Situation with copyright. The lack of interest from decision makers (institutional and national level). The lack of financial support from national funding programme’s.

About eLABa development (1) New project for designed for eLABa development is being prepared for application to European Social Funds support The applicant is Kaunas University of Medicine All institutions, which have signed corresponding cooperation agreements regarding eLABa development, are invited to become the participants of the project The value of the project is approximately 430 thousand EUR The main goal of the project is to integrate Lithuanian Science Publications Database (PDB) into eLABa thus creating expanded eLABa

About eLABa development (2) While implementing the project: eLABa regulations will be improved Convenient tools for full-text submission to eLABa repositories together with PDB bibliographic records will be created 65 librarians will be trained About 30 thousand bibliographic records of science publications announced by authors from institutions participating in the project and about 4500 related full-texts will be accumulated

Conclusions (1) eLABa represents best practices of Open Access in Lithuania. Having created and implemented eLABa, not only scientific institutions and researchers will benefit, but other persons related to science and the state as well. eLABa implementation will promote scientific research and usage of research results.

Conclusions (2) eLABa will be useful for business sector, for scientific institutions and communities from the EU and from all over the world that are developing their cooperation in the fields of studies and conducting the common scientific research work. Development of eLABa is important and it is supported by the our Ministry of Education and Science.

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