Developing a sustainable platform for open access publishing in Armenia
Keywords:
Institutional repositories, Open access and open data, Digital scholarly communication models, IR collection development, Acquisition models, Armenian academic libraries.Abstract
In 2017 two Armenian universities with the support of the University of Bergen teamed up within the project called “Developing a sustainable platform for open access publishing in Armenia”.
The project started with a survey regarding attitudes and barriers of academic staff in Armenian universities to open access and institutional repositories.
This article will present the analysis of the OA survey results conducted with American University of Armenia and Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia. The article will be concluded with the recommendations on the developed IR guidelines, specify acquisition models taking into consideration the survey results.
