KNOWLEDGE IS NO LONGER SHELVED: “OPENESS” OF THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IN CZECH REPUBLIC

Abstract

Scientists and scholars, as a tradition of scholarship, publish their research free of charge for the main reason of sharing the output of their scholarly endeavors. This presentation summarizes the current open access initiatives of the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. It describes the recent projects which are made freely available in virtual spaces as evidence of the institute's commitment to open access. As libraries' emerging role is to support their institutions' research, this presentation will further answer how and where the library and librarians fit in the framework.