Türkiye’deki Üniversitelerin Açık Erişim Arşivlerinin ve Politikalarının Değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

Humanity has needed access to information since the existence of the universe. Particularly, access to scientific information is important for everyone who produces scientific information, publishes academic publications and needs access to scientific information. In this respect, the university libraries where the foundations of higher education were laid and the Council of Higher Education (HEC), which was established to manage the scientific supervision of universities in Turkey, play an important role in the process of accessing scientific information.However, there are some problems in our country in terms of access to scientific publications and the dissemination of academic knowledge.With the work carried out by HEC in order to solve these problems, it is aimed for each university to create an open access archive within its own body, and it is aimed to support open access archives with an open access policy.In parallel, open access archives have started to be created by universities in order to carry out access to scientific information through a certain systematic. In this process, HEC started to collect data based on university statements on a regular basis regarding the open access archives and policies of universities. In this study, the data collected by HEC for the first three periods and the data collected from the open access archives and web pages of universities in the same periods are periodically compared. Accordingly, it is found that there has been an increase in the number of university open access archives and records entered in the archives by periods, and contrary to expectations, it has been found that university age and university type do not affect the number of records in the open access archive.In addition, it has been revealed that having a mandatory or non-mandatory open access policy does not increase the number of records entered into the open access archive.One of the most important findings obtained from the thesis is that the data obtained as a result of the study and the data entered in the HEC information form of the universities are not compatible. Hence, within the scope of the thesis, various suggestions are presented about the duties of HEC and universities and what can be done.Some of these suggestions are to ensure that the archive officers are informed about the subject in order to manage the open access archive content and to avoid disruptions in the current registration flow, and to raise awareness for university administrations to give more importance to the subject and to ensure that scientific outputs are included in the archive.