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Malta
Last updated on 
Mar 22, 2022

National Open Access Desk

Kevin Ellul
University of Malta
Josianne Vella
University of Malta

  • Overview

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    Support and Landscape

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    National Initiatives

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  • Open Science Policy

    National Policy

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    Funder policy

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    Institutional Policy

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  • Infrastructure & EOSC

    Key networks & Aggregators

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    Data repositories

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    National publishing initiatives

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    National agreements with publishers

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    OA books

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  • Training & Support

    Adoption of Open Access is supported by the UM Library through the organisation of seminars, awareness raising events, and educational and training ventures. Training workshop entitled Enhancing the visibility of your research output: A hands-on workshop on how to upload your research papers on the UM Institutional Repository - OAR@UM are organised on monthly basis by the Library’s Open Science Department in collaboration with Library’s Outreach Department.

  • Statistics

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  • News

    Supporting Open Science in Malta
    24 Nov 2022

    Supporting Open Science in Malta

    Ensuring that OS becomes an emergent mode of Scholarly Communication Human capacity is instrumental in ensuring that we achieve culture change which is an important catalyst for the implementation of Open Science practices by Josianne C. Vello  & Kevin J. Ellul The OpenAIRE team has the pleasure of speaking to Kevin J. Ellul, Director of Library Services and Josia...
    Malta adopts a National Open Access Policy
    13 Apr 2022

    Malta adopts a National Open Access Policy

    By the end of 2025, Malta shifts to a state of immediate Open Access in terms of research publications by  Kevin J. Ellul In 2019, the Malta Council for Science & Technology (MCST) has secured the support of the H2020 Policy Support Facility (PSF) to develop a National Open Access Policy. The PSF exercise kicked-off in July 2019 whereby a panel of experts undertook two country visits and ...
    Open Science: The Future of Scholarly Communication
    11 Feb 2021

    Open Science: The Future of Scholarly Communication

    The University of Malta Library, in collaboration with OpenAIRE, are organising an online seminar entitled: Open Science: The Future of Scholarly Communication, on Wednesday, 24th February 2021 via zoom....
    Maltese Journal Collection in OAR@UM
    23 Jan 2019

    Maltese Journal Collection in OAR@UM

    Scholarly journals published by academic societies have to struggle through the complex publishing landscape in order to maximise their visibility, discoverability and usage. This is due to the fact that these journals are either being hosted on non-robust platforms such as society websites or maintained by commercial publishers with content that is behind pay wall or against costly article proces...
    Open Access in Practice: Dissemination, Visibility, Usage & Impact of Scholarly Research
    9 Feb 2018

    Open Access in Practice: Dissemination, Visibility, Usage & Impact of Scholarly Research

    The University of Malta (UM) Library in conjunction with OpenAIRE organised a one-day workshop entitled Open Access in Practice: Dissemination, Visibility, Usage & Impact of Scholarly Research. The event was held on Friday 12th January, 2018 at the UM’s Conferences and Events Unit, based at the Valletta Campus.  The aim of the event was to raise awareness about the concept of Op...