From 22 to 25 November 2021, TUBITAK ULAKBIM participated in the ANKOSLink 2021 International Conference organized by the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS). Over 400 librarians, information professionals, information managers, and publishers attended the conference, which had the theme of "New Generation Solutions in Digital Knowledge Structures."
M Mirat Satoğlu, with his presentation titled "Turkey's Open Science Policy," shared with participants the development of open science in Turkey and the studies conducted by TUBITAK ULAKBIM during the organization's session titled "Open Science Conference: Turkey."
In his speech, Satoğlu stated that TUBITAK ULAKBIM, which started open science studies in 2016, acts with the awareness that improved access to social information and documents supports sustainable development. Furthermore, he argued that data should be shared to protect and develop information, advance research, and maximize the return on public funds. In this context, he emphasized that TUBITAK ULAKBIM continues to grow existing infrastructures on open science issues, including data management and long-term protection.
M. Mirat Satoğlu introduced some of TUBITAK ULAKBIM's open science studies to the participants, such as:
- Turkey Academic Archive (Harman) metadata collection software that provides access to content by establishing relationships between journals (data providers) and search engine services (service providers),
- Presentations or publications containing results of projects supported by TUBITAK, publications from TUBITAK, publications from Turkey supported by UBYT, data from publications produced by the Turkish National e-Science e-Infrastructure (TRUBA) project, articles published in TUBITAK Academic Journals, and research TUBITAK Open Archive Aperta, where data can be stored, protected, managed, scanned and accessed free of charge in an appropriate database structure,
-TUBITAK Open Science Portal,
-Training Portal for Research Data Management and
-Open Course Platform
In his presentation, Satoğlu noted that Turkey is in a very developed and pioneering position in its geography with its open science infrastructure and that the most important step to be taken in the field of open science is to harmonize our academic incentive and funding system as well as our research evaluation system with open science and to approach the San Francisco Declaration DORA.
ANKOS, which started its activities with 12 member institutions in 2000, aims to increase the reach of libraries by providing access to most e-information resources at affordable prices, sharing the investments made in these products through economies of scale, and providing academics and students access to the global information network at the highest level possible. ANKOS, also active at the international level, now has 155 members from universities and research institutions. TUBITAK ULAKBIM is a member of ANKOS and provides key databases to universities through the EKUAL project.