Building National Open Science Cloud Initiatives (NOSCIs) in Southeast Europe: Supporting Research and Scholarly Communication

Milica Ševkušić (), Eleni Toli (), Katerina Lenaki, Kalliopi Kanavou, Electra Sifakaki, Biljana Kosanović, Ilias Papastamatiou and Elli Papadopoulou
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Milica Ševkušić: Institute of Technical Sciences of SASA (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Eleni Toli: Athena Research & Innovation Centre, 15125 Marousi, Greece
Katerina Lenaki: Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, 15122 Marousi, Greece
Kalliopi Kanavou: Athena Research & Innovation Centre, 15125 Marousi, Greece
Electra Sifakaki: Athena Research & Innovation Centre, 15125 Marousi, Greece
Biljana Kosanović: University of Belgrade Computer Centre, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Ilias Papastamatiou: National Infrastructures for Research and Technology—GRNET S.A., 11523 Athens, Greece
Elli Papadopoulou: Athena Research & Innovation Centre, 15125 Marousi, Greece

Publications, 2022, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-19

Abstract: The Horizon 2020 project National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe—NI4OS Europe supports the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) by integrating 15 countries in Southeast Europe into the governance structure of this new pan-European research environment. Through a qualitative secondary analysis of the data collected during the project, the paper focuses on the main instrument developed by the project with the aim of enabling the integration of the partner countries in the EOSC—a network of national Open Science Cloud Initiatives (NOSCIs)—and explains how the concept of NOSCI and a wide range of related activities, tools, services, and resources foster research and open scholarly communication. The paper has three main sections: the first identifies challenges to scholarly communication in Southeast Europe, the second describes the methodology used to deal with these challenges revolving around the concept of NOSCI, whereas the third presents a set of indicators to track the change generated by project actions and discusses the impact of this methodology and project outputs in the area of scholarly communication.

Keywords: European Open Science Cloud; NI4OS-Europe; National Open Science Cloud Initiatives; Open Science; national policies; Southeast Europe; scholarly communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 D83 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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