<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Andrew (if I may), <br><br></div>Thank you for your comment! Bożena Bednarek-Michalska has provided an explanation (see Richard Poynder's "Open Access in Poland: Interview with Bożena Bednarek-Michalska": <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.com/2013/04/open-access-in-poland-interview-with.html">http://poynder.blogspot.com/2013/04/open-access-in-poland-interview-with.html</a>):<br>
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<b><i style><span style>"RP:<span style> </span>ROARMAP lists </span></i></b><i style><span style><a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/geoname/geoname=5F2=5FPL.html"><span style>three OA mandates</span></a><b> in Poland, and
OpenDOAR lists </b><a href="http://www.opendoar.org/find.php"><span style>75 repositories</span></a><b>. I am not sure
how up to date these figures are, or how many research institutions there are
in Poland, but assuming the figures are correct how satisfied are you with
progress to date?"</b></span></i></div>
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<b style><span style>B B-M:<span style> "</span></span></b><span style>I would think it fair to say that at
the moment the situation is very dynamic so far as OA in Poland is concerned.
The good news is that something changed within the Polish scientific community
last year. Many researchers now understand that repositories can promote the
research output of their university, and therefore of their own work. And they realise
that this can increase the number of citations that their papers attract, and thus
the impact of their work. This is probably because they have now had sufficient
experience of using the Internet to see the benefits of increasing the
visibility of their research by making it freely available.</span></div>
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<span style>But as I noted, there has been no
progress with regard to OA policies and mandates.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="result_box"></a> In
Poland no one wants to force scientists to make their work openly available, so
the focus is on voluntarism. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="result_box1"></a>Rather than work on
developing a university policy it is felt better to let librarians develop and
manage the institutional repository and allow faculty to get used to it. Trying
to do it the other way round does not work. Perhaps Poles first need to be
shown what is possible, and become acclimatised to new ways of distributing
their research over time." <br></span><br><div class="" style="margin-left:0cm">
<b><i style><span style>"RP: Who would you say is mainly driving the development of OA in Poland
today: researchers, librarians, research funders, or the government?"</span></i></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="result_box15"></a><b style><span style>"B B-M: </span></b><span style>In Poland, the majority of OA initiatives
are undertaken by librarians... <br><br>That said, there are a number of research centres that
have supported open access for a while now — e.g. ICM UW (<a href="http://www.icm.edu.pl/web/guest;jsessionid=BFB28DC7015F95303835E41EC617E6C3"><span style>Warsaw
University Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational
Modelling</span></a>), the <a href="http://www.umk.pl/en/"><span style>NCU</span></a>,
the <a href="http://www.agh.edu.pl/en/"><span style>AGH Kracow University of Science</span></a>,
and the <a href="http://www.english.pan.pl/"><span style>Polish Academy of Sciences</span></a>.
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<span style>We have also seen the emergence of an initiative of young
researchers known as <a href="http://obywatelenauki.pl/"><span style>The
Citizens of Science</span></a>. One of the goals of this organisation is to
promote open access. <span style> </span><br>
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One thing that distinguishes Poland from other European countries is the
existence of the Open Education Coalition (<a href="http://koed.org.pl/english/"><span style>KOED</span></a>).
This brings together a number of organizations that are working towards opening
up educational and science resources, and representatives of the coalition take
part in all the important debates about openness in Poland. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="result_box16"></a><span style="color:black">I should add that the Polish government — specifically
the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and the <a href="https://mac.gov.pl/"><span style>Ministry of Administration and Digitization</span></a>
— has also recently begun to take an interest in the topic. </span></div>
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<span style="color:black">Aware
of the debate that took place in Europe in 2011, in 2012 the Ministry of
Science and Higher Education commissioned a report on open science. This was edited
by Marek Niezgódka, and published by ICM UW. </span></div>
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<span style="color:black">The
report is called <i><span style>Implementation
and promotion of open access to scientific and educational content</span></i><span style> and it </span>outlined a path that academic
institutions could follow if they decided to implement the OA model."</span></div>
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<b style><i style><span style="color:black">"RP:<span style> </span>What recommendations did it make?"</span></i></b></div>
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<b style><span style>"B B-M: </span></b><span style>The main<b style> </b></span><span class=""><span style>recommendations were as follows:</span></span></div>
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</div><span class=""><span style>Both the National</span></span><span style> <span class="">Science Centre and</span>
<span class="">the National</span> Centre for <span class="">Research
and Development should mandate open access for the research they fund;</span></span>
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</div><span class=""><span style>All the publicly-funded programmes of the
Ministry of Science should use an open access model for the scientific
material they produce;</span></span>
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<br></div><span class=""><span style>Doctoral theses and dissertations should
be published under an open access model."<br><br></span></span></div><div><span class=""><span style>So OA movement in Poland keeps advocating for Green OA mandates and I hope we shall see some positive developments soon. <br>
<br></span></span></div><div><span class=""><span style>Best wishes,<br></span></span></div><div><span class=""><span style>Iryna<br><br></span></span><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Iryna Kuchma</font></div>
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<b style><i style><span style><br></span></i></b></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Andrew A. Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaa@meiji.ac.jp" target="_blank">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Via the EIFL newsletter:<br>
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OA publishing at Nicolaus Copernicus University<br>
Published:<br>
26 Jul 2013<br>
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Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) in Poland introduces a mandatory open<br>
access publishing policy for all NCU journals.<br>
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In 2012 an open journal publishing platform (based on OJS) was launched that<br>
currently hosts 30 open access journals published under Creative Commons<br>
BY-ND license. Within two years all 40 NCU journals will be openly available<br>
on this platform.<br>
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NCU also encourages open access to all research outputs and open educational<br>
resources via institutional OA repository, digital library and OER portal to<br>
promote Polish science and education in the world. The University Library has<br>
played a significant role in these developments.<br>
<br>
Congratulations to Bo\u017cena Bednarek-Michalska, EIFL-OA country<br>
coordinator, and her NCU colleagues!<br>
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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/pb763fl" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/pb763fl</a><br>
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AAA comment:<br>
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However, Nicolaus Copernicus University does not appear to have a Green OA<br>
Mandate (it has no entry in ROARMAP, at least). SO, while it's activity as a<br>
publisher in moving to OA is to be lauded, it is likely that its own<br>
academics produce far more articles in a year than are published in these 40<br>
journals, and without a mandate many of these articles are probably<br>
languishing inaccessible behind paywalls at publisher sites.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Professor Andrew A Adams <a href="mailto:aaa@meiji.ac.jp">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</a><br>
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and<br>
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics<br>
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan <a href="http://www.a-cubed.info/" target="_blank">http://www.a-cubed.info/</a><br>
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