Repozytorium instytucjonalne jako narzędzie komunikacji naukowej i promocji nauki
An institutional repository as an instrument of scholarly communication and the promotion of scholarship

Summary/Abstract: The fact that the development of science is possible only when access is made to the results and the conclusions associated with the research which was conducted has been familiar for a long time in the scholarly community. In the 1990s this reflection became an impulse for the establishment of the Open Access movement (OA) and for the construction of the first open archives which were supposed to accelerate the flow of information. The article familiarises the reader with the premises of the OA concept which contributes to the popularisation of knowledge and its development, it presents on the basis of the example of the Jagiellonian University Repository the manner of the functioning of repositories, the benefits which are associated with the opportunity to publish works in the open access framework and it indicates the position which institutional digital libraries may assume in scholarly communication.

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