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The "Open Access Kickoff Meeting" was held on May 7, 2024, in Ankara, hosted by Springer Nature Publishing House and in collaboration with TÜBİTAK ULAKBIM (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye - Turkish Academic Network and Information Center). Specialists in the field from YÖK (Council of Higher Education) and TÜBİTAK attended the meeting, along with academicians from 23 research universities. Targets, expectations and proble

The Committee of Gabon that arrived in our country to analyze on site the studies carried out by TÜBİTAK on research, development, technology and innovation in the fields of natural sciences, environmental sciences, social and human sciences, medical and health sciences, agricultural sciences, numerical sciences and engineering visited our Directorate on May 13, 2024.

The EKUAL (National Academic License for Electronic Sources) Project, spearheaded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) and the Turkish National Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBİM), offers access to over 2,300 electronic journals published by Springer Nature. The current 2022-2024 Springer Nature Agreement has been elevated from a “Read” model to a “Read & Publish” model, effective from January 1s

Mehmet Mirat Satoğlu, Director of TUBITAK ULAKBIM, paid a visit to Azerbaijan upon an invitation from the Azerbaijan National Academy of Science. During the visit, Satoğlu shared the knowledge and experiences of TUBITAK ULAKBIM to support the scientific studies in Azerbaijan, and was informed about the studies of AMEA and its affiliated institutes in the fields of academic journals and electronic academic services.

TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM has hosted the 17th General Assembly and Conference of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) organized under the theme “Scientific Publishing of High Quality.” A total of 193 people from 36 countries attended the conference, which was held at the School of Architecture of Istanbul Technical University between June 1 and June 3, 2023. The hybrid event brought together 61 participants from all over the world, includin

More good news has come out of our cooperation with SCOAP 3, in which Türkiye is represented by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM. SCOAP 3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), based at CERN, provides support for studies in the field of high energy physics. TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM supported the "SCOAP 3 for Books" pilot initiative launched by SCOAP 3 in 2019 aiming to make books on high energy physics open access.