New Legislative Developments In Support Of Open Science – Bulgaria and Slovenia

This webinar discussed exciting new legislative developments in Bulgaria and Slovenia to support Open Science. Joining the growing number of countries that are adopting laws to ensure access to publicly funded research, the event explored, with the help of KR21 national coordinators Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič (Slovenia and Western Balkans region) and Dr Ana Lazarova (Bulgaria), the following themes: How intellectual property barriers to open access are being overcome; How good governmental strategy can promote open science; Insights into the Slovenian law, which requires immediate open access and licensing of majority publicly funded materials based on legal requirements mandating rights retention; and the new law in Bulgaria, which prevents contracts with publishers from overriding rights retention and the republication of publicly funded articles in open access repositories.