TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM participated in the ANKOSLink 2021 International Conference organized by the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS) and held in Antalya between 22-25 November 2021. National and international sessions were held at the conference, which was held with the theme of "New Generation Solutions in Digital Information Structures" and attended by more than 400 librarians, information professionals, information managers and publishers.
In the session titled "Open Science Conference: Turkey", M. Mirat Satoğlu shared with the participants the development of open science in Turkey and the work carried out by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM in this field with his presentation titled "Turkey's Open Science Path".
In his speech, Satoğlu said that TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, which started its open science activities in 2016, acts with the awareness that increasing access to social information and documents supports sustainable development. He also stated that they advocate that data should be shared in order to protect and improve knowledge, advance research, and maximize the return on investment of public funds. In this context, he emphasized that TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM continues to work on the development of existing infrastructures on issues related to open science, including the management and long-term protection of data.
M. Mirat Satoğlu presented the open science activities of TUBITAK ULAKBIM with his presentation;
- Metadata collation software "Turkish Academic Archive" (Harman), which provides access to content by establishing a relationship between journals (data providers) and search engine services (service providers),
- Presentations or publications containing the results of projects supported by TÜBİTAK, publications addressed to TÜBİTAK, publications addressed to Turkey that have received incentives from UBYT, data belonging to publications made within the scope of the Turkish National e-Science e-Infrastructure (TRUBA) project, articles published in TÜBİTAK Academic Journals and TÜBİTAK Open Archive Aperta, where research data can be stored, protected, managed, scanned and accessed free of charge for a long time within an appropriate database structure,
-TUBITAK Open Science Portal,
-Research Data Management Training Portal and
-Open Lesson Platform
shared with the participants. In his presentation, Satoğlu stated that Turkey is in a very advanced 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 will be to harmonize our academic incentive and promotion system and research evaluation system with open science and to converge with the San Francisco DORA Declaration.
ANKOS, which started its activities with 12 member institutions in 2000, works to ensure that university and research libraries have access to the most e-information resources at the most affordable prices, to share the investment made in these products within the framework of economies of scale, to increase the support of libraries to education and research by realizing the highest level of access of academics and students in Turkey to the global information network. ANKOS, which is also involved in the international arena, currently has 155 university and research institution members. TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM is an ANKOS member and provides important databases to universities within the scope of the EKUAL Project.
