A Review of the Current Situation of Open Access in Bulgaria
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The paper discusses the current situation with OA resources in Bulgaria. We used various available web OA resource databases such as (DOAJ, OpenAIRE, ROAD, OpenDOAR, ROAR, ROARMAP, etc.) with an overview of previous papers and other relevant information written on the subject in order to discuss the development and state of OA in terms of scientific journals and IRs. To this added our own research on OA resources not included or indexed in the above-mentioned databases. The OA journals and IR were analyzed in terms of scientific fields, languages of publication, bibliographic content, software platforms and consistency. The need for and implementation of institutional OA policies as well as suggestions for the future development of OA in Bulgaria are discussed.