Institutional Repositories, Open Access, and Research Evaluation

Abstract

Institutional Repositories and Open Access publishing can lead towards a more open and balan-ced system of research evaluation which is an impor-tant factor in scientific knowledge exchange and development. Depositing scientific papers in an insti-tutional repository is the first step in a new, open and trans-parent publishing system, in which all steps and versions of peer review process can remain visible. Open Access - based evaluation i.e. system of quality assessment and impact measurement that is more open, more varied, and more user-driven, recognizes the importance of making research public, in the interest of science discovery and development as well as growth of generally available knowledge.