Establishing Digital Repositories at Western Balkan Universities: poster

Establishing repositories at Western Balkan universities is a part of Tempus project “New Library Services at Western Balkan Universities”, launched in 2010 and coordinated by University Library “Svetozar Markovic” in Belgrade. The main objectives of the Project are: modernization of library economy, more effcient library services, integration and institutional diffusion of academic library network on\ud six Western Balkan universities in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.\ud \ud Inforum 2012:\ud 18th Conference on Professional Information Resources\ud Prague, May 22-24, 2012\u

Establishing Digital Repositories at Western Balkan Universities

The paper presents part of the Tempus project “New Library Services at Western Balkan\ud Universities” (coordinated by the University library “Svetozar Markovic” in Belgrade from 2010\ud up to now), whose one of two main objectives is to establish digital repositories on the 6\ud universities of the Western Balkan (three countries: Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and\ud Herzegovina). The repositories are based on the same system – PHAIDRA, created, developed\ud and launched in 2006. by University library in Vienna, which is one of the partner in the Project.\ud PHAIDRA is system designed for long term archiving and managing of different types of digital\ud objects; legislation about copyright protection is included in the system and can be easily\ud applied. The repository of the University of Belgrade, with all necessary adjustments (language,\ud university structure, classification system, etc.), became the leading model for all other\ud repositories. Dissemination of information about repositories is started at the University library\ud for several groups of faculty librarians, who participated one day training about the functioning\ud of the system. Training of librarians is also the first step in connecting with teaching staff of those\ud faculties. The Rectorate of the University of Belgrade gave institutional support to this Project:\ud by signing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Science and Humanities,\ud rector emphasized that PHAIDRA repository is established accordingly to this decision and\ud invited professors, researchers and others to publish their scientific work within this repository\ud and to make it visible worldwide