open access

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Croatian researchers enabled to publish open access nearly 130 papers in Wiley and IEEE journals

2025

Acting as the representative of the Croatian academic library consortium, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) has concluded two transformative contracts with Wiley and IEEE, the high-profile international academic publishers. The contracts enable Croatian researchers and the members of the Croatian academic community to publish open access and free of charge by the end of 2025 89 papers in Wiley journals and 40 papers in IEEE journals. This comes as a result of NSK’s and the consortium’s continued efforts in the promotion of open access as one of the fundamental principles of open science policies and initiatives as well as the significance of both providing access for ...

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The participants in the 2024 regional meeting of e-resources purchasing consortia in central and eastern Europe.

NSK hosts 2024 regional meeting of e-resources purchasing consortia

28 May 2024

On 28 May 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the 2024 regional meeting of seven e-resources library purchasing consortia from central and eastern Europe. After all previous such regional meetings were held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, NSK hosted the 2024 meeting, which apart from the representatives of the Hungarian and Croatian consortia brought together the representatives of another five library consortia – Austrian, Czech, Romanian, Slovak and Slovenian. Library consortia up against new challenges Traditionally organised by the Hungarian Academy’s Electronic Information Service National Programme, these regional meetings thematise challenges which e-resources library purchasing consortia are facing as ...

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