The training was held within the framework of the “Development of research potential through the network of institutional repositories in Azerbaijan” (DIRNA) project of the “Erasmus+KA2” program, in which Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU) is a partner. The training on “Presentation of the Digital Repository at AzTU and open access possibilities” was organized based on the presentations of Khayala Hajiyeva, director of the AzTU Library Information Center (LIC), and Iltifat Ibrahimov, an expert on library systems and digitization of the LIC.
The participants were informed in detail about open science, open access concepts, international licenses, copyrights, open publishing opportunities, AzTU’s open access policy, author agreements. The participants were introduced to the digital repository of AzTU, and a presentation was given on the rules of resource admission to the repository.
In the training, the participants were also presented with information about the subscription databases and open access databases provided by AzTU LIC, a literature search was performed on the databases, and the audience was informed in detail about information provision.
At the end of the session, questions from the participants were addressed comprehensively.
