The Croatian national open access journal platform |
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| Authors: | Jadranka STOJANOVSKI Jelka PETRAK Bojan MACAN |
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| Institution: | 1. Ru?er Bo?kovi?, Institute Library, Zagreb, Croatia;2. University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia |
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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 Hr?ak, 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 Hr?ak platform are regularly harvested by OA repositories. To increase the number of Croatian journals covered by relevant bibliographic and full‐text databases, Hr?ak 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. |
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