Platforms for Integration of Open Access Resources of Research and Educational Institutions

Abstract

In order to study the involvement of Russian academic and educational institutions in joint projects to create open access (OA) archives, we have researched the websites of 106 Russian HEIs participating in the program “Priority 2030” and 453 research institutes (RIs) of the first three categories. As a result of the work carried out, it has been found out that 38% of educational institutions’ websites contain institutional repositories (IRs), but half of them are remotely inaccessible. 20% of repositories of educational organizations participate in joint projects to ensure OA. Only 6% of the research organizations’ websites contain IRs that are presented mainly as part of an electronic library (EL), but not as independent repositories. In addition, 10.5% of the total number of RIs do not maintain their own repositories or ELs, but provide information about research results of their employees, the most important academic achievements of researchers as well as give access to digitized texts of the most significant works published within the framework of joint projects. At the same time, information about participation in these projects is missing on the websites of academic institutions. The examination of the websites of Russian educational and research institutions has shown that their participation in projects to develop cooperative OA archives is not uniform: while some institutions are indifferent, others take an active part in several projects at once and provide information about themselves in foreign aggregators. As a result of the research, we have found 7 projects aimed at integrating OA information resources on a single platform. These resources are implemented mainly in ELs. They are different in number of participants, quantity and chronological depth of the content offered. The identified projects can be conditionally divided into multidisciplinary and thematic, national and regional. It has been found out that some ELs provide open access to all content only for project participants, i.e. remote users have the opportunity to familiarize themselves only with public pages or only a small part of the content is available to them.