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Open access in Greece; Research in Greece is carried out in universities and research centres and is mostly funded through the EU Framework; the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) funds most national research. Greece does not have an organized national or funding agency policy for OA publishing. Despite the financial crisis, many universities and scientific societies are now trying to change and make scientific journal articles, theses and book chapters accessible to anyone online.
As of June 2015, there are 28 institutional repositories at universities in Greece which are registered in OpenDOAR. Some of these repositories have further subject specialist repositories.
Greece currently has 43 OA journals indexed in DOAJ.
There are 2 institutional OA mandates registered in ROARMAP.
The National Documentation Centre (EKT) maintains a centralised information source on OA in Greece and elsewhere in Europe.
Very limited funds available for research and reliance on EU funding; no national mandate; lack of publication business models; lack of national strategy (Georgiou and Papadatou, 2009).
Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL-Link) operates as a Consortium and comprises 38 higher education institutes and 14 technological education institutes, and 8 other libraries), the Academy of Athens and the National Library of Greece. HEAL offers a portal to 11,000 full text electronic journals, including keyword and subject search to all.
National Information Research and Technology System (NISR+T) project is part of the project "Digital Greece", and is co-sponsored by EU Regional Development funds and Greek government funding. It aims is to develop digital library services; to collect, document and disseminate Greek digital content; develop applications and tools that support the organization, management and dissemination of digital Research and Technology content, using internationally accepted standards and practices that have been adapted to the particular situation of Greece; develop services for the dissemination and exploitation of Research and Technology results; establish cooperation with academic and research institutions and groups, nationally and internationally; develop alternative infrastructures for the collection, organisation and dissemination of digital Research and Technology content
Open Knowledge Greece: A group of hackers, developers, academics, government representatives and citizens who have joined forces to build the Greek section of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
National Documentation Centre (EKT)
Overview provides documentation, information and support services on science, research and technology issues to the research, business, government and wider community. Hosts an online platform that provides information about Open Access with links to journals, repositories, OA policies, projects and events in Greece and elsewhere in Europe.
Since 1980, EKT, the national institution for the aggregation, documentation and dissemination of S&T information, serves the country’s research, education, business communities and the wider public, enabling access to knowledge and facilitating research and innovation (R&I). Its activities contribute to the development of the Information Society and to the promotion of Innovation. The organization develops and promotes Greek digital content in science and culture, repositories and digital libraries such as the National Archive of PhD Theses with an aim to facilitate the growth of knowledge through open content and facilities, digital resources, software, collaboration tools and related user-oriented services for R&I. It disseminates research results and innovative technologies to the market, operates the Science and Technology Digital Library, supports the automation and networking of libraries and develops state-of-the-art library tools.
EKT and Open Access Initiatives: advocates open access and data initiatives that support the development and implementation of relevant policies for scientific and cultural data. EKT empowers access to significant volume of peer reviewed and quality assured scientific content (e-publishing.ekt.gr), adopts open source software to build and maintain open access e repositories. It contributes to the wider discussion on issues related with Open Access in Greece and promotes open dialogue through targeted information campaign, Open Access Blog, events and conferences (e.g. International Open Access Conference).
Communication address: National Documentation Centre (EKT), 48 Vassileos Constantinou Av, GR-11635, Athens, Greece; e-mail: [null openaccess(at)ekt.gr]
June 2015: Discovering Open Science and Open Opportunities
This was a FOSTER-supported training programme organized in partnership with EIFL with the aim of setting in place sustainable mechanisms for EU researchers to Foster Open Science. This was one of the 24 training programmes organized in 2015 for the research communities of 17 other EU countries.
January 2015: Open Access to Research Data as a Driver for Open Science
The conference was organized by the RECODE project.
The interest for the adoption of OA over the past years has broadened its scope and interest from publications to research data. The acknowledgement of the societal and economic benefits resulting from OA to research data, consistent with the notion of Open Science, has in turn translated in an increasing number of initiatives at both national and international level.
Recognizing the importance of enhancing further the transition to an OA ecosystem, the RECODE project organized this conference to provide a forum for European stakeholders to work together on common solutions.
The Conference focused on the following themes: policies for OA to research data; good practices in enabling the re-use of data; open research data and research cultures; government data; grand challenges and future developments for OA to research data.
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