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EBSCO online sessions in November 2025
Registrations for the training cycle organized by EBSCO designed for librarians, researchers, teachers and students, who would like to learn more about EBSCO. Central & Eastern European Academic Source Database – Support for Researchers of Scientific Literature in the Region 13thNovembe...
Library recommendations for Open Access Week
This week, we invite you to dive into the history, ideas, and practices of open access. Below are resources that will help you quickly understand this year's Open Access Week theme, "Who owns our knowledge?" Watch: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. (2024). kn/own/able projec...
Diamond open access: when open articles cost nothing to the author or the reader
Diamond open access is an open access publishing model in which scientific articles are free to readers and authors do not pay article processing charges (APCs). Publishing is funded by institutions, consortia, libraries, or research communities. In this way, the dissemination of knowledge does not ...
How to take advantage of article processing charge (APC) discounts
On the occasion of Open Access Week, we would like to remind you that VDU authors can take advantage of article processing charge discounts. What is an article processing charge (APC)? APC (Article Processing Charge) is a fee paid to the publisher so that the publication becomes immediately availa...
Who owns our knowledge? Open Access Week
October 20–26, 2025, is the Open Access Week, an annual global initiative promoting open access to scientific results. This year's theme is "Who owns our knowledge?" It invites the scientific community to rethink who has access to scientific and academic results, how knowledge is created and shared,...
Document access status now in search results!
From now on, searching in the VDU CRIS system is even more convenient! Next to each publication title, you will see an access icon that immediately indicates whether the full text of the document is available and what the access conditions are. This means that even before opening the record, you wi...