Since June 2020 there is a fully functional Bulgarian Portal for Open Science (BPOS) and a national repository for open access to scientific information, maintained by the National Centre for Information and Documentation.

The Bulgarian Portal for Open Science provides quick and easy access to scientific information and publicly funded research outputs, including resources from institutional open access repositories in Bulgaria. The national repository is a trusted space that allows the dissemination and storage of scientific publications and research outputs. Its main purpose is to assist the work of researchers and institutions that do not have an institutional repository available. However, the system can be integrated with other repositories and related systems in order to allow automatic harvesting and publishing of data and metadata.

BPOS performs selective harvesting of metadata from Bulgarian institutional repositories with open access that support the OAI-PMH.

The package “Storages for open scientific results” of the National Scientific Program "Information and Communication Technologies for a Single Digital Market in Science, Education and Security", created a model for BOSC that would serve as a prototype that research organisations and universities can use in the development of their institutional software platforms and digital repositories for preservation and publishing of scientific results;

Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS) is the coordinator of the National Open Access Desks.
 
IMI-BAS organizes workshops on Open Access to Scientific Publications, Data and Data Science, Bulgarian Open Science Cloud during the Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage—DiPP that takes place every year.

 

The yearly National information days "Open access to scientific information", organized by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences  invites: 1) representatives of national institutions (including the Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies and Communication, Ministry of Culture) responsible for the development of open access policies, 2) representatives of Bulgarian institutions (research institutes and universities) active in the implementation of open access policy and programme.

 

The national information days cover activities such as:

 

• Open Science
• Evaluation in an Open Science context
• Copyright retention
• Acknowledge, improve and value the existing European Open Science infrastructure
• Open Innovation
• Cross-cutting issues

The main results of the organized workshops are: The Workshop participants learned the main concepts for the implementation of OA principles and national OA roadmap, key terms, strategies, business models, work plans, copyright and licenses, best practices, examples and policies for open access, open data and open science. The academic staff (young and experienced researchers) and research project managers practiced OA and acquired knowledge and skills how to write, publish and deposit articles, scientific data and materials in OA repositories, OA repositories maintenance, etc. The policy makers and staff working in funding bodies acquired practical skills for writing OA policies, strategies and plans.