The Croatian national open access journal platform

Stojanovski, Jadranka; Petrak, Jelka; Macan, Bojan (2009) The Croatian national open access journal platform. Learned Publishing, 22 (4). pp. 263-273. ISSN 0953-1513

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Abstract

Until recently, Croatian scientific journals were accessible only in print form and only to a relatively small audience. A national online journals platform was therefore planned to offer publishers a simple tool for building online versions of their journals and to make them open access. The platform, named Hrčak, was launched in 2006, supported by governmental funds. It currently includes 170 open access (OA) journals. Most journals include backfiles from 2006 onwards ; the average archived period is 6.3 years. 56.5% of the journals come from the fields of social sciences and humanities. Metadata from the Hrčak platform are regularly harvested by OA repositories. To increase the number of Croatian journals covered by relevant bibliographic and full-text databases, Hrčak has forged links with Elsevier, Thomson Reuters and EBSCO. So far, the main achievements include assisting publishers in the process of electronic publishing, and improving accessibility to Croatian scientific output.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Hrčak; open access; scientific publishing; Croatian scientific journals
Subjects:	SOCIAL SCIENCES > Information and Communication Sciences > Library Science
Divisions:	Centre for scientific information
Depositing User:	Bojan Macan
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2011 09:10
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/37
DOI:	10.1087/20090402

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