The workshop was organized by OpenAIRE 2020 NOAD Kaunas University of Technology , in cooperation with the Research Council of Lithuania, Lithuanian Research Library Consortium, Mykolas Romeris University, the Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers, and the EU projects OpenAIRE2020 and PASTEUR4OA.Dr Brigita Serafinavičiūtė during her presentation ''Open Access- Contemporary Trend in Science" discussed the concept of Open Access. She reviewed the development of Open Access movement and its benefits for researchers and the wider society. The situation of OA policy implementation in Lithuania was presented, the concepts of "Green" and "Gold" open access roads were discussed. Brigita also discussed the OA situation in the word and compared the FP7 and Horizon2020 programmes in relation to OA. The audience got acquainted with the responsibilities of the Research Council of Lithuania regarding OA policy implementation and current situation of open access repositories.
Two guest speakers were invited to the event: Dr Brigita Serafinavičiūtė, member of the Research Council of Lithuania and coordinator of PASTEUR4OA, and Martin Donnelly – Senior Institutional Support Officer at the Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh. Dr Leonas Balaševičius, Director of the Department of Research Affairs at Kaunas University of Technology, opened the seminar by pointing out that the issues of OA are of particular relevance for Lithuania at present as open access centres are being established. He said that FOSTER seminars give an excellent opportunity for a discussion and provoked the audience to come up with sharp questions. The moderator of the event was Dr Gintarė Tautkevičienė, Library Director of KTU and the coordinator of FOSTER seminars in Lithuania and the national coordinator of OpenAIRE 2020.
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