Hungary adopted the Research Infrastructures of the European Commission in order to foster professional cooperation, the collaboration of the regional research infrastructure and also to contribute to the development of the European Research Area. The use of open infrastructure is crucial to establish a research area and users shall have an equal chance to access it if they comply with the conditions laid down in the publicly available rules.
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The members of the HUNOR (HUNgarian Open Access Repositories) consortium are dedicated to promoting Hungarian research both nationally and internationally and to achieving effective dissemination of scientific outputs through the implementation of a national infrastructure of open access repositories.
The Hungarian version of the SHERPA/RoMEO database was published in May 2012, and we have started to feed it with Hungarian publishers’ data. University of Debrecen represents HUNOR in the PEER (www.peerproject.eu) and OpenAIRE (www.openaire.eu) projects. Three HUNOR member institutions represent the country in COAR, the Coalition of Open Access Repositories. Dissertations from a growing number of HUNOR partners are harvested by the DART-Europe (www.dart-europe.eu) portal. We are also represented in LIBER and actively involved in projects on the unique identification of European researchers. There is a growing need for help and advice concerning OA journals. Therefore we successfully established a direct contact with the DOAJ (www.doaj.org) team. More and more Hungarian departmental and society journals sense the need for international visibility and turn to HUNOR for guidance.
The Hungarian research institutions are organized into two groups:
- There are 66 higher education institutions in the country: 22 state universities, 7 non- state universities, 5 state universities of applied sciences, 2 non-state universities of applied sciences, 1 state college, and 28 non-state colleges. For further details on Higher education in Hungary please click here.
- The research network of the Academy comprises 15 legally independent research institutions and more than 130 research groups at universities co-financed by the Academy. For further details please click here.
35 Hungarian scientific journals are indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals and some more journals are under process. Most of the scientific journals use Open Journal Systems (OJS) for managing the publication process.