Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies (USUST)

Scientific Library

Academic Library · Ukraine

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• t.o.kolesnykova@ust.edu.ua
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Department of Library and Information Technology

https://library.ust.edu.ua/en/page/e-publishing-house

Tetiana Kolesnykova, Director of the Scientific Library
Phone: +38 056 371-51-05
Email: t.o.kolesnykova@ust.edu.ua

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The library publishing activities promote appreciation of university science, development of researchers’ opportunities for broad academic and public exchange of discoveries and ideas, and preservation and accessibility of research results and unique historical documents of USUST. The library publishing activities focus their efforts on maximizing the impact of DNURT publications within the international scientific and public sphere and facilitating the free exchange of knowledge.

• Publishing activities began: 2012
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  The last project that was implemented was a collaboration with teachers to publish electronic open textbooks. Therefore, this stage is early. It officially emerged with the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing tragic war. The USUST librarians, having made a detailed analysis of the situation with information provision and library support for educational and scientific activities in the country, identified the main challenges: (1) Lack of modern Ukrainian-language educational resources (textual and non-textual) for learning and teaching; (2) the need to quickly create digital resources to provide distance or blended learning in wartime; (3) lack of state funding for textbooks for higher education institutions due to the war; (4) ensuring inclusive access to educational resources. The need for an inclusive approach is and will be particularly acute after the war ends since there will be increasing numbers of people physically affected by Russian aggression who want to get an education, retrain, or improve their education in professions, technologies, and skills. We are moving towards integration with the European educational and scientific space, where openness and accessibility of knowledge is the main principle of universities.
  
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: Ukrainian; English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
• Advisory/editorial board: Yes
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3
• Individual people: 6
• Funding sources: Charitable contributions; Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Journals
• Multimedia
• Open educational resources
• Posters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  Obtaining an ISBN; advising on university-wide publishing policy
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Only work with internal partners
• Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Articles, conference papers, and open textbooks
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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Policies

About the Journal: https://unilibnsd.ust.edu.ua/about

For Authors: https://unilibnsd.ust.edu.ua/about/athors

Author Responsibilities: https://unilibnsd.ust.edu.ua/about/ethics

Appeals and Complaints: https://unilibnsd.ust.edu.ua/about/ethics

Editors' Responsibilities: https://unilibnsd.ust.edu.ua/about/ethics

Publication Ethics: https://unilibnsd.ust.edu.ua/about/ethics

About the Journal; Copyright and Licensing: https://unilibnsd.ust.edu.ua/about

For Reviewers: https://unilibnsd.ust.edu.ua/about/reviewer

Digital Archiving Policy: https://unilibnsd.ust.edu.ua/about

Privacy Statement: https://unilibnsd.ust.edu.ua/about/privacy

Adopted Policies:
Code of Conduct for Editors; Creative Commons; Public Knowledge Project; Directory of Open Access Journals; Budapest Open Access Initiative

Additional Information

Last Year:
The USUST Scientific Library is a leader among Ukrainian higher education institution libraries in forming an ecosystem of open educational resources (OER) in the country, in particular to overcome the crisis of lack of modern accessible educational content in Ukrainian and to form a pool of free, accessible, inclusive open textbooks for higher education during the period of martial law in the country. Three years of research, the implementation of a pilot project, and already established OER support practices at the USUST and its scientific library, which is a member of SPARC Europe and ENOEL and the winner of the Open Education Awards for Excellence 2022 (USA), have allowed Ukraine to start creating a pool of modern Ukrainian open textbooks (18 titles) with a single (so far) access point: the Open Educational Resources Search Index (OERSI). At the same time, as in most higher education institutions around the world, the publisher (publishing entity) of open textbooks (an alternative model to commercial textbooks) is a university that owns the right to the original layout of the publication. The new model of digital publishing - open educational resources - is based on Creative Commons (CC) licenses, which are legally regulated in Ukraine by the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (2022).

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Future Plans:
The USUST library will continue to expand its focus on open textbooks in Ukrainian.

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Other Information:
According to a decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, in 2021, USUST was established by reorganizing and merging the Dnipro National University of Railway Transport (DNURT), named after Academician V. Lazaryan and the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine. Thus, the USUST Scientific Library is the legal entity of the DNURT Library, which has been listed in the Library Publishing Directory since 2018.