In January 2008, Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian academics issued the "Belgorod Declaration" in support of open access to scientific and cultural knowledge.[1][2] Russian supporters of the international "Open Access 2020" campaign, launched in 2016, include Belgorod State University, National Electronic Information Consortium (NEICON), and Webpublishers Association.[3][4]
There are a number of collections of scholarship in Russia housed in digital open access repositories.[5] They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read.
Proceedings of the 8th ICCC/IFIP International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Brazil. (About Geo.Web.Ru and Phys.Web.Ru)
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