FAIRness at University of Novi Sad - Discoverability of PhD research results for Non-Serbian scientific community

Abstract

The University of Novi Sad has more than 50,000 students and 5,000 employees and as such it is one of the largest educational and research centres in Central Europe. The University of Novi Sad offers 300 accredited study programmes on all study levels, undergraduate, masters, specialist and doctoral studies, which are carried out at the Faculties and University Centres for Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies.

PHD UNS is digital library of PhD dissertations defended at University of Novi Sad. It is a result of DOSIRD UNS project (http://dosird.uns.ac.rs/). Moreover, PHD UNS is integrated with CRIS UNS system and it is based on CERIF compatible data model.

About 5,000 PhD dissertations have been defended at University of Novi Sad since its foundation, and more than 1,000 in the last four years. More than 95% of those dissertations have been written in the national language (Serbian). Furthermore, each PhD dissertation starts with Key words documentation usually in two languages: Serbian and English. Key words documentation is prescribed by University of Novi Sad board and contains the following metadata: title, author, commission members, institution, abstract, advisor, publication year, publisher, etc. The PHD UNS digital library preserves:

1. Metadata prescribed by the University for all dissertations defended at the University;

2. PDF files representing PhD dissertation for dissertations defended in the last ten years;

3. Open-access license signed by a PhD student for dissertations defended in the last four years.