Open access to scientific information: comparative study in DOAJ

Abstract

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Bulgarian authors’ open access awareness and preferences

“…In recent years, Bulgarian authors have published a number of books related to open access and papers on themes such as the following: open access definitions and key terms (Trencheva, 2013); implementation of open access principles and a national open access roadmap (Stanchev et al , 2018); open access strategies, business models and work plans (Stanchev, 2014); copyright and licensing best practices (Todorova and Partulova, 2017; Simeonov and Stanchev, 2011); policy options (Castelli et al , 2018); libraries and open access (Todorova, 2012; Arsenova, 2015); open access and scientific communications (Dimchev, 2013) and Bulgarian open access journals (Trencheva and Todorova, 2014; Trencheva and Dimitrova, 2019). This paper is intended to continue these conversations to help researchers, project managers and librarians obtain knowledge about open access policies, strategies and best practices.…”