Open Science in WBCs

Shared resources for Open Science in WBCs

International EU-funded Project

This page is intended to establish shared resources for Open Science in WBCs. You can find links to national and institutional open science policies and institutional open science repositories. Our goal is to continuously monitor existing resources and contribute to the improvement of the OS practice in all WBCs.

You can find different models of OS policies and use them to create OS policy at your institution.
You can find different solutions for institutional repositories and use them as a model for your institutional repository.
You can use existing repositories to deposit your research results if they belong to your institution.
You can send us information about the new OS policy or OS repository at the link at the bottom of this page.

OS policies at WBC

COUNTRY	National OS policies	Institutional OS policies	Open data policies
ALBANIA
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA		Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Banja Luka	Data Archive for Social Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina – DASS-BiH
MONTENEGRO	Ministry of Education of Montenegro
NORTH MACEDONIA	National Open Science Cloud Initiative
SERBIA	Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia	University of Novi Sad	University of Novi Sad: Decision on Amendments to the Bylaw on Doctoral Studies – related to the Data Management Plan
		University of Kragujevac
		University of Belgrade
		State University of Novi Pazar
		University of Niš
		University of Pristina
		University of Arts in Belgrade
		Criminal Police University
		Institute of Technical Sciences of SANU
		Balkan Institute of SANU
		Institute of Plant Protection and Environment
		Institute of Animal Husbandry, Belgrade-Zemun
		Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops
		University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry
		Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation
		Maize Research Institute „Zemun Polje“

OS repositories at WBC

COUNTRY	National repositories	Institutional repositories	Thematic repositories
ALBANIA		Co-PLAN: a non-profit organization
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA		University of Banja Luka	Data Archive for Social Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina – DASS-BiH
		“E-theses“ of the University of Banja Luka
		University of Zenica
MONTENEGRO		University of Montenegro
MONTENEGRO		“E-theses“ of the University of Montenegro
NORTH MACEDONIA		University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Faculty of EE and IT
SERBIA	NaRDuS (National Repository of Dissertations in Serbia) Repositories of the PhD theses at the University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad, University of Niš and University of Kragujevac are included in NaRDuS	University of Belgrade - SPIRA Collection of 32 institutional repositories	National Repository of Agricultural Education - CaSA NaRA
		University of Kragujevac	The Jewish Digital Library
		University of Novi Sad *	Repository of psychological instruments in Serbian - REPOPSI
		State University of Novi Pazar*
		University of Arts in Belgrade*
		University of Niš*
		Full lists of repositories in Serbia can be found at National portal of Open Science
* repository not maintained

Remarks:

These lists are based on the preliminary data collected until July 1, 2022, but the questionnaire is still available for all interested stakeholders at the WBC-RRI.Net website:

Link to the questionnaire

The plan is to expand the lists during 2023 with new policies and repositories, to become part of the common OA/OS infrastructure for the WBCs.

Download report:

Report on the existing open science practice in the Western Balkan Countries - Download