1. Good Practices: Principles and Perspectives Alenka Kavčič-Čolić, PhD
Open Access and Licensing Options In Academic Libraries
Good Practices: Principles and Perspectives
Ljubljana, 1 October 2015
THE ROLE OF THE NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF SLOVENIA IN PROVIDING OPEN ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE
Alenka Kavčič-Čolić, PhD
Head of the Research and Development Division
National and University Library
Photo: M. Brumen

2. OVERVIEW NUK status OA Holdings OA Activities OA challenges
A. Kavčič-Čolić, NUK, 1 Oct. 2015

3. 1. NUK STATUS
Library of the University of Ljubljana for humanities and social sciences
Slovenian Legal Deposit Library
Trusted digital repository for Slovenian cultural and scientific heritage
National aggregator of e-contents from the field of culture (
Digital Library of Slovenia (
Coordinator of COSEC (Slovenian Consortium for licensed e-resources, member of EIFL since 2003)
A. Kavčič-Čolić, NUK, 1 Oct. 2015

4. 2. NUK SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS HOLDINGS AND LOG STATISTICS
TYPE OF LIBRARY MATERIAL
HOLDINGS
DOWNLOADS (2015)
ACCESSED ONLY (2015)
scientific journals titles
219
scientific articles
52,331
theses
1,034
47.986
20.912
research reports
2,182
 39.379
19.748

5. NUK ANNUAL AQUISITIONS OF SCIENTIFIC PUBL. (2011-2015/Sept.)
A. Kavčič-Čolić, NUK, 1 Oct. 2015

6. 3. OPEN ACCESS ACTIVITIES
National level:
Agreement with the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS)
Access to research output through the Digital Library of Slovenia portal (
Support of CC 4.0 licences publishing
OA support to researchers – network initiated by CTK
Co-author of (EIFL funded project)
International level:
Project DRIVER II ( ) - National agregator for DRIVER network
NUK is co-founder and member of COAR (Confederation of OA Repositories)
NUK is member of EIFL (EIFL-OA)

7. ARRS OA mandate
A. Kavčič-Čolić, NUK, 1 Oct. 2015

8. New guidelines adopted in 2015:
Aimed to foster OA of Slovenian authors in hybrid journals of major publishers (APC negotiations)
Successful arrangement with Taylor & Francis from 2016
Negotiations with Emerald and Sage Journals, and other publishers

9. 4. OA CHALLENGES Staff dedicated to the provision of OA support
OA support network at University of Ljubljana
Processing of OA materials:
Different versions, outputs, huge quantities …
Legal Deposit materials from Slovenian repositories  long-term access + digital preservation
Integration of OA research output (publication + data)
Publishers‘ embargoes
Sometimes more than 12 months
DRM by publishers depositors in NUK digital repository
Slovenian publishers due to different DRM have not acquired all rights from authors
Support to researchers, especially in humanities and social sciences
Cooperation researchers-librarians-publishers.

10. Thank you for your attention!