National Open Access Desk

The National Policy for Research, Development and Innovation for the years 2016–2020 (Czech only) identifies the key areas and research topics on which the research should focus. The National policy also proposes changes in the management and funding of science in order to produce more top-level scientific results.
The major research funder are

• the Czech Science Foundation, which provides financial support for research projects submitted by individuals or organizations on the basis of a public tender
• the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.

The Czech Science Foundation signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities in 2008, but it still does not require open access to published results.

There are 26 public universities in the Czech Republic and a large number of private universities. The most important research institution is the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Information about the Czech Republic research activities and results can be found in the national current research information system IS VaVaI 2.0. The system contains publicly available data from the R&D IS of the Czech Republic.

Czech university libraries and other research-performing organisations have started to build the technological infrastructure with an installation of repositories and have participated in some Czech universities activities conducted in this area in the past. These activities have been supported mainly by the Association of Libraries of Czech Universities.

• ASEP – Czech Academy of Sciences: Publication Activity
• Brno University of Technology Digital Library
• Charles University DSpace repository
• Digital Library of the Czech Technical University in Prague
• Digital Library of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
• Digital Library of the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University
• Digital Library of the University of Pardubice
• DML-CZ (Czech Digital Mathematics Library)
• DSpace at Technical University of Liberec
• Masaryk University Repository
• National Repository of Grey Literature (National Technical Library)
• Repository of Tomas Bata University in Zlin publications
• University of West Bohemia Digital Library
• VSB-Technical University of Ostrava DSpace Repository

Several repositories from the list above are compatible with the OpenAIRE Guidelines and harvested by the OpenAIRE portal.

There are currently several open access journals published within Czech Republic listed in DOAJ. A lot of them use Open Journal System (OJS) as a publishing platform.

The National Centre for Electronic Information Resources (CzechELib) aims to ensure the effective purchase of and access to key electronic information resources (EIR) for their users in the fields of research, development, and innovation in the Czech Republic, thereby significantly reducing public (research organizations) spending on related administrative activities.

The project is managed by the Czech National Library of Technology (Národní technická knihovna – NTK). Together with experts from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, CzechELib represents all major EIR users, that is public universities, institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Akademie věd České republiky – AV ČR), libraries, and other research organizations, in negotiating license agreements.

The National Centre for Electronic Information Resources – CzechELib project is co-funded by the European Union – Operational Programme Research, Development and Education in the years 2017–2022.

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