Challenges to the Support of Bulgarian Open Institutional Repositories

Abstract

Open access academic archives are the proper instrument to make visible the majority of the works done during the years and to propagate the results of already paid research activities, thus raising their value. This is the way to achieve an improved management of intellectual assets of the whole university and research community. This paper examines the indicators of the success as well as the challenges in the support of Bulgarian institutional
repositories. The findings are based on a comparative case study of the six repositories in research institutes and universities and the local repository of the Department of Informatics at New Bulgarian University.