All employees of the RBI are obliged to deposit in the institutional OA repository FULIR a digital copy of all their publications, and should provide Open Access whenever possible. Publication types include journal articles, conference proceedings papers, book chapters, books and textbooks, graduation theses and dissertations, presentations and posters from conferences, presentations and materials from lectures held at RBI and other institutions, educational materials and technical reports. All publications will be stored, preserved, and made available as soon as possible.
The final version of the accepted or published paper must be deposited, and Open Access provided in the accordance with the rightholders' provisions. If the rights are partially or totally transferred to the publishers, the author is obliged to deposit a version of the paper eligible to deposit and provide Open Access to it as soon as possible. When signing a copyright transfer agreement authors should keep their right to deposit the final version of the paper into the institutional repository and provide Open Access to it. The agreements with publishers should be modified to allow compliance with the RBI Open Access mandate.
The months ahead will bring rapid growth in the number of publicly available research publications in FULIR, as authors find their way through the maze of rights challenges, and raise their awareness about the benefits of having their work deposited and publicly available. By maximising access to publications, we expect to improve their visibility and usage, and aim to increase RBI’s productivity and impact and funding eligibility.
For more information, contact the OpenAIRE NOAD in Croatia: Jadranka Stojanovski.