The Organisational and Technical Aspects of
Slovenian Open Access Infrastructure
Milan Ojsteršek
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
milan.ojstersek@um.si
The Slovenian open access infrastructure is partly financed by the European Union, European Regional Development Fund and
Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia within the framework of the Operational Programme for
Strengthening Regional Development Potentials for Period 2007 - 2013.
Project ODUN
The state of open access in Slovenia in
2012
• More than 40 open access journals and more than 20 digital
archives and repositories.
• Publications have been duplicated across different repositories or
digital archives.
• Inadequate quality of metadata of research publications, research
data, dissertations and theses.
• Processes for submission of theses, dissertations, research
publications, research data and other academic production have
not been established.
• No common search engine for theses, dissertations, research
publications, research data and other academic production.
• Lack of common recommender system and plagiarism detection
system.
• Lack of metadata, data, content, submission and preservation
policies.
Examples of national infrastructures of open
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NARCIS, Netherland
RIAN, Irland
NORA, Norvay
OA-Netzwerk, Germany
openarchives.gr, Greece
PLEIADI, Italy
Federacja bibliotek cyfrowych, Poland
RCAAP, Portugal
RECOLECTA, Spain
DiVA, Sweden
Plans:
• SHared Access Reseach Ecosystem (SHARE), USA
• Digital Scientific Library, France
A network diagram of the Slovenian
open access infrastructure
Open Science Slovenia (http://www.openscience.si)
- similar content detection,
- federated search,
- recommendation system.
RUL
ePrints.FRI
DKUM
PeFprints
RUP
DRUGG
SSDA
RUNG
dLib
DIRROS
Videolectures.NET
REVIS
DKMORS
Other
digital
archives
SciVie
www.openscience.si
The institutional repository linked to
external systems and the national
portal
UL document
management
system
University
Web servers
web service
ARNES AAI or
University
authentication
system
JavaScript API
RSS
XML or LDAP
SRU/SRW
dLib.si
web service
Open Science
Slovenia
web service
OAI-PMH
EPrints
repositories
Institutional repository
web service
XML or
LDAP
University academic
information system
OAI-PMH
XML
JSON
Videolectures.
NET
OpenAIRE,
DARTEurope,
BASE,
ROAR,
OpenDOAR
…
web service
OAI-PMH
DKMORS
XML, web service,
OAI-PMH
Other
sources
The main advantages of the Slovenian
infrastructure in comparison with other national
infrastructures
• The plagiarism detection system.
• The central recommender system.
• Integration of institutional repositories with:
– the information and authentication systems of the
universities, ARNES AAI,
– the national bibliographic system COBISS.SI,
– the national current research information system SICRIS and
– the national portal Open Science Slovenia.
• Availability of repositories from mobile applications for
Android, Windows Phone, and iOS devices.
• Some new features in institutional repositories (mentor
statistics, automatic document segmentation and the
normalisation of authors using CONOR.SI authority file).
A sequence diagram of final study work submission and
publication at the universities of Maribor and of Nova Gorica
A sequence diagram of research
item submission and publication
Open AIRE
compatibility
Statistics of keyword lists, associated with a selected mentor
Results of segmentation from PDF documents
An example of coarse-checking (above) and finechecking (below) outputs between two texts
Recommendation of publications
Mobile applications
Mobile applications
Mobile applications
Mobile applications
Mobile applications
Open metadata
Javascript API
Benefits
• Open access to results of study and research
activities of universities, resulting in greater
impact (citation),
• consequentially better utilization
rate of research funding from public funds,
• number of visits is one of
the criteria for calculation of university
ranking on Webometrics list
(http://www.webometrics.info/).
New challenges
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Improving of cataloguing process in COBISS.
Inclusion of spatial and temporal coverage in metadata of publications.
Establishment of URN namespaces for our repositories.
Establishment of digital preservation process.
Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 functionalities for users of repositories.
Usage of OpenAire API for controlling of insertion of project metadata.
Inclusion of serial publications and monographies, produced by
institutions into their repositories.
• Better user interface in institutional repositories for insertion and
presentation of e-lectures, enhanced, serial and monograph publications.
• Establishment of processes for publication of research data in different
research areas.
• Automatic extraction of uncontrolled keywords and classification with
UDC, Eurovoc, LCH, Agrovoc, ACM, CERIF and MeSH taxonomies.
Where you find more information
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National portal of open science: http://www.openscience.si/Default.aspx
DKUM: https://dkum.ukm.si/info/index.php/eng/
RUL: http://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/info/index.php/eng/
RUP: http://repozitorij.upr.si/info/index.php/eng/
RUNG: http://repozitorij.ung.si/info/index.php/eng
DIRROS: http://dirros.openscience.si/info/index.php/eng
REVIS: http://revis.openscience.si/info/index.php/eng
• Our last publication:
Milan Ojsteršek , Janez Brezovnik , Mojca Kotar , Marko Ferme , Goran
Hrovat , Albin Bregant , Mladen Borovič , (2014) "Establishing of a
Slovenian open access infrastructure: a technical point of view", Program:
electronic library and information systems, Vol. 48 Iss: 4, pp.394 – 412
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/PROG-02-2014-0005
Contact
Milan Ojsteršek
University of Maribor, Faculty of electrical
Engineering and Computer Science
tel.: +386 2 220 74 51, +386 40 696 538
email: milan.ojstersek@um.si