On 2 October 2017 the Director of the Institute, prof. dr hab. Anna Zielińska, introduced the policy of open access. The aims and objectives of this policy are specified in the document unanimously approved by the Academic Council of the Institute at the meeting held on 2 October 2017 (Resolution No. 47/2017).
Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences Open access policy
The Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, has been systematically working towards dissemination of knowledge. The team of its Slavic Academic Information Centre [Centrum Slawistycznej Informacji Naukowej] develops a bibliographical database of publications in Slavic linguistics worldwide (iSybislaw), which is available in open access. As of 2014 all journals issued by the Institute have been published only electronically and are available in open access at its e-journals platform. As of 2016, the monographs and collective volumes published by the Institute are available in open access at its repository of texts in the field of Slavic studies (iReteslaw). The Institute is also gradually opening access to its materials stored at the Digital Repository of Scientific Institutes [Repozytorium Cyfrowe Instytutów Naukowych, RCIN]. The Institute is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and the Coalition for Open Education [Koalicja Otwartej Edukacji], aiming to support the development of open educational resources and to promote good practices of their use.
To further the commitment to open science, as of 2 October 2017, the Director of the Institute, having consulted the Academic Council, introduces an institutional policy of open access to publications and research data of the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. This policy applies to all publications (including multimedia materials) affiliated with and published by the Institute, as well as to research data affiliated with the Institute. The Director appoints an Open Access Representative responsible for the implementation of this policy at the Institute.
Under the policy of open access, the Institute commits itself to propagating the idea of open science among its staff, doctoral students and cooperating researchers. The Institute publishes academic works in open access (CC BY 3.0 PL licence) via its publishing outlet, the Slavic Publication Centre [Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, SOW], which is part of the Institute and has required infrastructure at its disposal. The Institute operates an e-journal platform providing access to all its periodicals: Acta Baltico-Slavica, Adeptus, Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, Colloquia Humanistica, Slavia Meridionalis, Sprawy Narodowościowe, Studia Litteraria et Historica, Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej. The Institute also keeps expanding its Slavic Studies repository (iReteslaw), one of whose sections (Publications of the Institute of Slavic Studies) has become the place of publication of its monographic studies and collective volumes. With a view to expanding readership, the Slavic Publication Centre seeks to secure indexing of its publications (journals, monographs, multi-author volumes) in the maximum number of quality databases. The journals issued by the Institute are currently indexed in: Scopus, Proquest, European Reference Index for the Humanities Plus (ERIH PLUS), CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library), CEJSH (Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), EBSCO, WorldCat.
The Slavic Publication Centre adopts the so-called gold open access model, according to which the articles and monographs are reviewed and edited, and have their registered DOI or ISBN numbers. Information on the publishing policy of the Institute in this respect can be found in the Sherpa/Romeo database. The Centre is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and follows its principles.
Considering the needs of its staff members, the Institute provides the authors of works in the field Slavic studies – particularly those affiliated with the Institute and published elsewhere – with an opportunity to make them available in open access (CC BY 3.0 PL licence) at the Slavic Studies Documents collection of iReteslaw repository. Slavic studies scholars can also make their research data – particularly those obtained in the course of studies pursued at the Institute – available in open access at iReteslaw and RCIN repositories, as well as dedicated sections of the Institute website. The RCIN repository contains mostly older publications and audio materials of the Institute, which are gradually transferred to open access.
By implementing the policy of open access, the Institute meets the recommendations concerning open science specified in international documents (e.g. The Budapest Open Access Initiative, 14 February 2002, the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme) and in Polish guidelines (Ministry of Science and Education, Directions of the development of open access to publications and research results in Poland, Kierunki rozwoju otwartego dostępu do publikacji i wyników naukowych w Polsce, 2015).
Appointment of Open Access and Digitalisation Representative at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
On 18 October 2017 the Director of the Institute, prof. dr hab Anna Zielińska, appointed dr Dorota Leśniewska as Open Access and Digitalisation Representative responsible for:
- Monitoring the implementation of open access policy adopted by the Institute;
- Coordinating work relating to open access policy at the Institute (ISS PAS Journals, iReteslaw repository, RCIN repository, iSybislaw database, open data uploaded by staff members);
- Popularising open access policy at the Institute;
- Providing help and assistance to Institute staff members in receiving permission for open access to their works published outside the Institute;
- Drafting annual reports on the implementation of open access policy and their publication on the Institute website;
- Coordinating work relating to the development of digital infrastructure of the Institute;
- Developing strategies and implementing solutions fostering the optimum use of digital resources of the Institute.
Open Access and Digitalisation Representative, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, information on publications in 2017
In 2017 Institute staff members and doctoral students published the total of 265 works (monographs, journal articles, chapters in multi-author volumes); 213 of them were published outside the Institute. All 52 works published by the Institute and 32 (15%) of those published elsewhere are available in open access.
The overall proportion of works published in 2017 by Institute staff members and doctoral students available in open access is 32%.
Open Access and Digitalisation Representative, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, information on publications in 2018
In 2018, the total number of publications affiliated with the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences was 263 (monographs, journal articles and chapters in multi-author volumes); 185 of them were published outside the Institute.
Almost all works published by the Institute (99%) were made available in open access (one volume appeared only in print as it proved impossible to obtain rights to publish all contributions in open access). Considering works authored by Institute staff members and doctoral students which were published elsewhere, the number of those made available in open access was 69 (37%).
In 2018, the overall proportion of works affiliated with the Institute which were made available in open access was 55%.
In 2018, the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences concluded the first stage of preparations to make its research data available in open access. They are currently stored on the Institute’s main server or on servers and computers directly managed by the Institute.
(I would like to thank Dr Dorota Dobrzyńska for her help in collecting this data)
Open Access and Digitalisation Representative, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, information on publications in 2019
In 2019, the total number of monographs, journal articles and chapters in multi-author volumes affiliated with the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences was 246; 181 of them were published outside the Institute.
Almost all works published by the Institute (99%) were made available in open access (one volume appeared only in print as it proved impossible to obtain rights to publish all contributions in open access). Considering works published elsewhere, the number of those made available in open access was 61 (33.7%).
In 2019, the overall proportion of works affiliated with the Institute which were made available in open access was 51%.
In 2019, the iReteslaw repository was listed in the Registry of Open Access Repositories. This means that it is now included in two such catalogues, the first one being the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR).
(I would like to thank Dr Dorota Dobrzyńska for her help in collecting this data)
Open Access and Digitalisation Representative, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, information on publications in 2022
In 2022, the total number of publications affiliated with the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences was 157 (monographs, journal articles and chapters in multi-author volumes); 132 of them were published outside the Institute.
All works published by the Institute (100%) were made available in open access; two monographs appeared also in print. Considering the works published elsewhere, the number of those made available in open access was 75 (57%). In 2022, the overall proportion of works affiliated with the Institute which were made available in open access was 64%.
Considering that the Institute adopted the diamond model of open access to articles and monographs, the Open Access and Digitalisation Representative follows the national and international discussion on developing ways to support publishers (e.g. the conference “Wydawnictwo naukowe w XXI wieku – jak technologie cyfrowe zmieniają komunikację naukową” [Academic Publishers in the 21st Century – How Digital Technologies Are Changing Scientific Communication], organised by the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (Konferencja Rektorów Akademickich Szkół Polskich, KRASP) and the Polish Chamber of Books (Polska Izba Książki, PIK); webinars, surveys).
Towards the end of 2022, the first datasets in the Institute’s research data collection stored in the Repository for Open Data (RepOD, maintained by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, ICM UW) were made available to external users. The collection currently contains three datasets. The most extensive one is „Różnorodność językowa w Polsce: języki kolateralne, działania na rzecz języków i konceptualizacja tożsamości zbiorowej” [Linguistic Diversity in Poland: Collateral Languages, Language-Oriented Activities and Conceptualisation of Collective Identity], developed in the course of the project of the same title, and including metadata of materials which constitute the methodological basis of the project. The second dataset features transcripts of an open guided interview with a bilingual man in the city of Piła (Poland), conducted on 13 October 2018 as part of the project Language across Generations: Contact Induced Change in Morphosyntax in German-Polish Bilingual Speech (LANGGENER). The third dataset contains materials for the article “Taksonomia kosmiczna w podróży VIII Ijona Tichego z Dzienników gwiazdowych S. Lema w przekładach na języki słowiańskie” [Space Taxonomy in “The Eighth Voyage of Ijon Tichy” from S. Lem’s Star Diaries in Translations into Slavic Languages] – lists of equivalents of taxonomic names which appear in the Polish story and its translations into Russian, Ukrainian, Czech and Bulgarian; the materials were used to support an application for a multilingual lexicographic project devoted to the works of Stanisław Lem.
Open Access and Digitalisation Representative, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, information on publications in 2023
In 2023, the work of the Open Access and Digitalisation Representative, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, focused on supporting activities related to opening the resources of the Institute and on open science trainings.
Opening resources
In 2023, the total number of publications affiliated with the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences was 152 (monographs, journal articles and chapters in multi-author volumes); 133 of them were published outside the Institute. All works published by the Institute (19 monographs and articles – 100%) were made available in open access; five monographs appeared also in print. Considering the works published elsewhere, the number of those made available in open access was 70 (53%). In 2023, the overall proportion of works affiliated with the Institute which were made available in open access was 59%.
In 2023, the Publishing Centre of the Institute introduced a general update of the operating system of the Institute’s e-journal platform, where the academic journals issued by the Institute are published. The platform now has a Polish and English interface and many new functionalities related to publishing and disseminating articles in open access. Work on verifying metadata in the system will continue in 2024.
Considering the repository iReteslaw (the Institute’s Online Repository of Texts in the Field of Slavic Studies), the number of new items published in the collection “Dokumenty slawistyczne [Slavic documents]” was over twenty, and in the collection “Wydawnictwa Instytutu Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk [Publications of the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences]” – ten (including seven new monographs).
Considering the open bibliographic database iSybislaw, the number of multilingual records made available in 2023 was over 800 (bibliographic descriptions along with information about the content in the form of relevant keywords and classifications).
The Institute’s research data collection stored in the Repository for Open Data (RepOD, maintained by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, ICM UW) was made available to external users in 2022. In 2023, the following datasets were added to the collection:
- Dataset for the project Power and Identity in Russian-Language Political Discourse: The Case of Belarus, conducted by Dr Anton Dinerstein.
- A paper by Dr Ekaterina Petkova and Dr Jakub Banasiak, written as part of the Polish-Bulgarian project On the Keyword Dictionary of Slavic Linguistics.
- Illustrative materials for the project Laughter during the War: Russian Aggression in Ukraine in Political Caricatures and Memes, conducted by Dr Orest Semotiuk; the materials were used in his article “Superhero Contra Butcher: Zelensky and Putin in Political Cartoons on Russian Aggression”.
- Dataset for the project Futuryści z MZO. Organizowanie się Ministerstwa Ziem Odzyskanych w czasie i przestrzeni [Futurists from the MZO: Self-Organisation of the Ministry of the Recovered Territories in Time and Space], conducted by Dr Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska and Dr Izabela Mrzygłód.
- Transcripts of an open guided interview with a bilingual man in the city of Piła (Poland), conducted on 13 October 2018 as part of the project Language across Generations: Contact Induced Change in Morphosyntax in German-Polish Bilingual Speech (LANGGENER); the dataset was prepared by Dr Irena Prawdzic.
- Materials for the article “Taksonomia kosmiczna w podróży VIII Ijona Tichego z Dzienników gwiazdowych S. Lema w przekładach na języki słowiańskie” [Space Taxonomy in “The Eighth Voyage of Ijon Tichy” from S. Lem’s Star Diaries in Translations into Slavic Languages] – lists of equivalents of taxonomic names which appear in the Polish story and its translations into Russian, Ukrainian, Czech and Bulgarian; the materials were used to support an application for a multilingual lexicographic project devoted to the works of Stanisław Lem; the dataset was prepared by Dr Marcin Fastyn.
The Institute also began the process of opening data on the portal https://dane.gov.pl/.
Trainings
On 4 October 2023, the Open Access and Digitalisation Representative, together with Dr Paweł Kowalski, conducted a training workshop for grantees from the Institute and staff members of the Institute’s Research Support Office. The workshop was devoted to publishing grant results in open access and opening research data in the context of the guidelines of the National Science Centre, Poland. The Representative also provided individual consultations.
Considering that the Institute adopted the diamond model of open access to articles and monographs, the Open Access and Digitalisation Representative follows the national and international discussion on opening science. In 2023, she took part in fourteen international and national conferences, trainings and webinars devoted to developing ways to support the diamond open access model, proper presentation and dissemination of metadata, and EU activities in the field of opening science. The Representative’s activities included: participation in a survey of the European project “DIAMAS” and a related conference (13 April 2023); participation in a conference devoted to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) (6 November 2023); participation in the 3rd National Conference of the KRASP Committee for Scholarly Publishing (Komisja ds. Wydawnictw Naukowych przy Konferencji Rektorów Akademickich Szkół Polskich, KRASP): “Publikacje cyfrowe jako element systemu ewaluacji jakości działalności naukowej: Wyzwania związane z rozwojem sztucznej inteligencji” [Digital Publications as an Element of the System for Evaluating the Quality of Scholarly Activity: Challenges Related to the Development of Artificial Intelligence] (16 November 2023); participation in a training organised by the National Science Centre, Poland in connection with the liberalisation of open access policies (30 October 2023).