Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS)

IMI–BAS as coordinator of the Bulgarian network and provides support to Bulgarian institutions and researchers. The annual Info Day on Open Access to Scientific Information, organized by the Institute, invites:

The initiative brings together professionals from research libraries, open scholarship organisations, national e-Infrastructure and data experts, IT and legal researchers, showcasing the truly collaborative nature of this pan-European endeavor.

• 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;
• representatives of Bulgarian institutions (research institutes and universities) active in the implementation of open access policy and programme.

Main Actions:

• We are preparing an action plan for three years for Open Science and considering the next steps with the Minister of Education and Science. At the same time, we will begin talks with scientific publishers about preferential pubs for publishing open access

• Presenting Bulgarian works in the area of open access and open science in the co-organized by the European Commission and the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union events.

• Preparing Terms for Creating an Automated System and a National Portal (including Standards and Specifications) for Open Access to Scientific Information (link1)

• Preparing an action plan to set up the Bulgarian Open Science Cloud (link2)

• We spoke about OpenAIRE at “The European Open Science Cloud: Austria takes initiative” in Vienna, Austria, on 30 October 2018 which was co-organised by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the Library and Archive Services of the University of Vienna.We participate in the panel “The European Open Science Cloud. Domestic experiences vs the pan- European experiences” and presented the Bulgarian plans for the cloud.

• We spoke about OpenAIRE at the International Data Week 2018 (IDW 2018) held on 5–8 November 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana. Hosted by the Botswana Open Science and Open Data Forum, IDW 2018 bring together data scientists, researchers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, policymakers and data stewards from all disciplines and geographies across the globe. We presented our view Towards Pro-Innovative Models for Efficient Use and Continuing Development of the Digital Culture Ecosystems.

• We spoke about OpenAIRE at the international conference “e-infrastructures for excellent science in southeast Europe and eastern Mediterranean” https://vi-seem.eu/2018/04/03/regional-conference/

• We spoke about OpenAIRE at The Digital Assembly 2018 (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/events/digital-assembly-2018-sofia) take place on 25 and 26 June in Sofia, Bulgaria.

• We spoke about OpenAIRE at the organizing of the e-IRG workshop under Bulgarian EU Presidency. The workshop will take place on 14-15 May in Sofia, Bulgaria. A session dedicated to the current developments of the European Open Science Cloud is organized. The tentative agenda for the workshop in at: http://eirg.eu/e-irg-workshop-may-2018

• We spoke about OpenAIRE at https://www.digitalinfrastructures.eu Europe’s leading e-infrastructures invite all researchers, developers and service providers to participate to the third edition of Digital Infrastructures for Research conference, which will be held this year in Lisbon, Portugal, at ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, from 9 to 11 October 2018. The DI4R 2018 conference is jointly organised by EOSC-hub, GÉANT, OpenAIRE and PRACE.

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), being the coordinator of research in Bulgaria, intends to establish a network of scientific Open Access centres. IMI-BAS will be the key point repository in the Bulgarian network providing support for academic researchers.

Furthermore, workshops, training actions, communication events on the use of the infrastructure for scientific communities will be organised by IMI-BAS together with the Bulgarian Information Consortium (BIC) and Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Sofia University. This will raise the awareness amongst possible content providers and advise them on the use of the repositories.

The Eighth International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage - DiPP2018 aims at presenting innovative results, research projects and applications in the field of digitisation, documentation, archiving, representation and preservation of global and national tangible and intangible cultural and scientific heritage. The main focus is to provide open access to digitised cultural heritage and to set up sustainable policies for its continuous digital preservation and conservation.

DiPP2018 Conference, Workshop on Open Access to Scientific Publications, Data and Data Science

Contact persons

• Peter L. Stanchev ?subject=[openaire]
• Georgi S. Simeonov ?subject=[openaire]