HUNOR: HUNgarian Open Repositories

Abstract

Open Access was born in Hungary with the Budapest Open Access Initiative in February 2002. In the same year, OA said goodbye to Budapest and has not returned since then. DRIVER did a survey in 2006-2007 but there were no respondents from Hungary. We decided to adapt the questions of the DRIVER survey to Hungarian conditions. We had had information about the existence of eight institutional repositories in the country, seven of them registered in OAIster, openDOAR, ROAR and BASE. According to a Government mandate on the open availability of PhD theses, universities are responsible for providing open access to the full text of theses. Hungarian research projects are, of course, concerned by sponsor mandates (NIH, Wellcome Trust, EC, ERC, EUA).