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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=1161">https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=1161</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#555555'>The Slovenian researchers are obliged to deposit and ensure open access to publications through repositories according to the aligned policies in the European Research Area, i.e. on<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/oa_pilot/h2020-hi-oa-pilot-guide_en.pdf"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>open access in Horizon 2020</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>and according to the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.mizs.gov.si/si/delovna_podrocja/direktorat_za_znanost/sektor_za_znanost/strategije_s_podrocja_znanosti/nacionalna_strategija_odprtega_dostopa_do_znanstvenih_objav_in_raziskovalnih_podatkov_v_sloveniji_2015_2020/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>national open access strategy</span></a>. The latter was adopted in September 2015 and the action plan is being prepared for its implementation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#555555'>The four Slovenian universities have jointly established a national portal<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.openscience.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>Open Science Slovenia</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>and institutional repositories for written final works of studies and publications of researchers (<a href="https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>RUL</span></a>,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://dk.um.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>DKUM</span></a>,<a href="http://repozitorij.upr.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>RUP</span></a>,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://repozitorij.ung.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>RUNG</span></a>). For researchers from research institutes, an additional literature repository was set up (<a href="http://dirros.openscience.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>DIRROS</span></a>). These five repositories use the same nationally made repository software. The universities’ repositories are connected with the organizations’ information systems (for students, for digital identity) and with national systems (the bibliographic system and services<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.cobiss.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>COBISS</span></a>, the national<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.sicris.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>SICRIS</span></a>). Plagiarism detection is carried out for each publication deposited into the one of the five repositories. The national open access infrastructure also includes literature repositories using EPrints software (<a href="http://eprints.fgg.uni-lj.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>DRUGG</span></a>,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://pefprints.pef.uni-lj.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>PeFprints</span></a>,<a href="http://eprints.gozdis.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>Sci Vie</span></a>,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://eprints.fri.uni-lj.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>ePrints.FRI</span></a>) and the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.dlib.si/"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>Digital Library of Slovenia</span></a>.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://www.openaire.eu/search/data-providers#text:slovenia"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>All the literature repositories</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>in the national open access infrastructure comply with<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://guidelines.openaire.eu/en/latest/literature/index.html"><span style='color:#3B72B5'>OpenAIRE guidelines for literature repositories</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Ina Smith</span></b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>SciELO Planning Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://orcid.org/"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#338CAF;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=16 height=16 style='width:.1666in;height:.1666in' id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.gif@01D1F25B.2F267410" alt="http://orcid.org/sites/default/files/images/orcid_16x16(1).gif"></span></a><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9710-3668"><span style='color:blue'>http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9710-3668 </span></a></span><u><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA 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