National Documentation Centre's (EKT) ePublishing platform

Abstract

The National Documentation Centre (EKT) provides services addressed to public institutions and publishers of accredited scholarly journals and the general public including the organization, documentation and organized dissemination of metadata and content of scholarly journals, training and consulting services on issues like the standardization of editorial processes according to internationally accepted standards, intellectual property, the inclusion of content and metadata in international content indexers and harvesters via interoperable systems. EKT assigns DOIs to various scholarly materials, including journal articles, theses, and datasets, ensuring persistent and unique identification. Through its digital repositories and publishing platforms, EKT facilitates the dissemination of research outputs with assigned DOIs, enhancing their accessibility and citation potential.EKT supports the integration of ORCID iDs to uniquely identify researchers and link them to their scholarly contributions, improving recognition and credit within the academic community. EKT strongly advocates for the use of unique digital identifiers like DOIs and ORCID iDs, but does not enforce their adoption. It provides the necessary infrastructure and support to encourage voluntary uptake among researchers and institutions.

Through its ePublishing service, EKT assigns DOIs to publications, facilitating their integration into the global research infrastructure and enhancing their visibility.

EKT manages platforms such as the National Archive of PhD Theses and SearchCulture.gr, which utilize DOIs to provide reliable access to digital content.

Overview

Country	Greece
Start date	2012
Annual Budget	€3.5M
Responsible organisation(s)	Government agency
Target group(s)	Civil society|Established researchers|Higher education institutes|Students|Junior researchers|Private R&D|Public research institutes|Subnational government
Policy instrument type	Information services and access to datasets

Background

ePublishing EKT is provided to non-profit institutional publishers and serves as a medium for the publication of electronic journals, monographs and conference proceedings. Digital journals presented at EKT ePublishing are a result of the institution's successful co-operation with publishers of peer-reviewed journals and institutions/organizations with international prestige in the field of research and culture. Organizations and research institutions can benefit from EKT's publishing services and enhance their publishing capabilities and management procedures by selecting as many or as few services needed.

EKT’s ePublishing services includes:

- Management of the publishing workflow for scientific journals and conference proceedings with the use of the open source software Open Journal Systems (OJS).

- Management of the publishing workflow for monographs with the use of the open source software Open Monograph Press (ΟΜΡ).

- Training for the publishers on the use of the above services

- Consulting for the publishers on the development of their publishing policies and operational preparation to support the publishing processes according to international standards and in compliance with Open Access principles

- Access to an e-knowledgebase which includes detailed guides, templates and training material.

- Content management and documentation services<br/>· Assignment of persistent identifiers (DOI)

- Technical support

- Hosting and safe storage for the journals/ monographies/ eproceedings in EKT’s datacenter

- Wide promotion of the publishing production among relevant audiences and inclusion in scientific aggregators and databases (such as Scopus, DOAJ, ISI, ERIH)

Objective(s)

To create a fully digital workflow in the operation of EKT’s ePublishing platform, the biggest Open Acess publishing platform to scientific eJournals and conference proceedings in Greece.

To promote open scholarly communication and content aggregation by EKT’s national infrastructures.

Public access URL

https://epublishing.ekt.gr/en

All tags

• Incentives & Rewards
• Greece
• 2012
• Government agency
• Civil society
• Established researchers
• Higher education institutes
• Students
• Junior researchers
• Private R&D
• Public research institutes
• Subnational government
• Information services and access to datasets
• Unique digital identifiers for citation and credit

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