Azerbaijan Library Information Consortium – Az.LIC Jamila Yusifova Baku State University, Head of International Exchange Information Department at Scientific Library of BSU

Achievement Az.LIC is happy to announce that in 2013 Web of Knowledge and Emerald resources were provided for half a year to Azerbaijan scientific and educational community to help Azerbaijan national vision in scientific development. As a result, Azerbaijan increased country's visibility on world’s top tier citation indexes with more journals and other published materials. Az.LICAzerbaijan

How it was done… By - promoting the development of libraries through innovative library services, new resources, encouraging cooperation between librarie - providing efficient and economical use of the resources in our country - sharing best practices and knowledge, providing technical assistance and trainings for library staff, students and researches Az.LICAzerbaijan

Advice or Challenge to enhance international partnership and exchange to see science and technology libraries as multi-academic activity centers to embed innovation in scholarly information and research Az.LICAzerbaijan

Belarus Viatcheslav Britchkovski BelCoLib

Achievement Electronic scholarly resources reach target audience BelCoLibCountry

How it was done… Open Access Advocacy Creating OA repositories ( 12 - online, 5- under development) Establishing corporative scholarly portal on the basis of OJS platform Corporate licensing scholarly e-resources EIFL support BelCoLibBELARUS

Advice or Challenge Direct communication with target audience Training the trainers Knocking on the door Crowdsourcing Sustainability requires stable administrative and financial support BelCoLibBELARUS

Georgia Irakli Garibashvili GILISC

Achievement OA passed a stage of piloting and now there are much more activities of the libraries. DSpace IR at National Parliamentary Library photos, newspapers, 5160 magazines, 1900 books DSpace IR of Library Association – 1000 files EPrints IR at Ilia State University – 1000 files GILISCGeorgia

How it was done… Regional libraries involved in submission of materials (esp. photos, newspapers,..) Universities are working on OA mandates for scientific communication Main repositories are forming their submission policies (which materials, …) Grants from commercial companies speed up the process GILISCGeorgia

Advice or Challenge Fixing clear policies for academic communication & publication (UNIs) Involvement of Government bodies (Ministry of Edu. & Science) Working on bibliometric data for scientific publications (Nat. Scientific Library) Anti-plagiarism issues GILISCGeorgia

Kyrgyzstan Sania Battalova Kyrgyz Libraries Information Consortium (KLIC)

Achievement 15th Anniversary of International Library Conference “Libraries and Democratization of Society” KLIC (Kyrgyz Libraries Information Consortium)Kyrgyzstan

How it was done…  It is a unique conference in the region, which celebrates its 15 th anniversary Recognized as one of the most important events for regional library community KLICKyrgyzstan

Advice or Challenge KLICKyrgyzstan -Participation of librarians from all countries in the region -International focus -Strong library community and professional relations with consortium members -Focus on collaboration and knowledge sharing -Openness to new ideas and experience -Building financial sustainability and attracting resources

Republic of Moldova Dr. Silvia Ghinculov Consortium Electronic Resources for Moldova

Achievement Republic of Moldova Most academic libraries would like to have access to databases Springer Link. However, the cost of subscribing to this resource makes it inaccessible for the majority of scientific libraries of Moldova. The only library that had access to this resource was the Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. The directorship of the Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences and the Consortium REM, negotiated with representatives of SpringerLink a free access to databases SpringerLink for all members of the Library Consortium REM in 2014.

How it was done… The positive decision on free access to databases SpringerLink allowed to organize a training seminar for representatives of the consortium REM on June 16, The representative of Springer - Frans Lettenstrom - briefed members of the consortium, scientists, PhD students and master’s degree students of leading universities on the features of this databases (82 pers.). The workshop was a success and allowed the representatives of the scientific and library world of Moldova to get acquainted with high-quality licensed resources and to provide access to them. Republic of Moldova

Advice or Challenge The success of this event suggests the need to coordinate the activities of all members of the consortium and actively lobby at all levels: from government officials, heads of scientific and educational organizations, non-governmental organizations to licensed providers of resources and consumers of scientific information. Republic of Moldova

Russia Irina Razumova NEICON

Library assessment Future of libraries is a topic of hectic discussions. This year we have conducted Survey on library assessment and scholarly resources in Russia. Our respondents were university faculty and researchers. First 1000 responses were analyzed and reported at ICOLC Europe in Lisbon, Portugal NEICONRussia

How it was done… We have developed a online questionnaire. Mounted the link on 370 university websites. Teachers and researchers had to answer questions on importance of e-resources and different library services for their scholarly work. We also asked them to put marks to their libraries. NEICONRussia

Try it and you will know: NEICONRussia

Ukraine Oleksii Vasyliev, PhD consortium.net INFORMATIO- CONSORTIUM, Association

Achievement: Web site upgrading HTML Coding > Site Hosting & CMS Drupal

How it was done: Informatio-Portal (free software) Hosting – just 360 USD per year Informatio- Consortium WWWWIKI Mail - Server Mail-List Server Repository OJSOCSCRMMoodle Survey Server WWW WIKI MAIL-SERVER MAIL-LIST REPOSITORY OJS OCS CRM MOODLE SURVEY SERVER FORUM

Advice We employ just 3 staff and a few volunteers and such a step in CRM helped us to improve information management, made information circulation easier, improved trial management, allowed launching distance learning and a helpdesk system. INFORMATIO-CONSORTIUMUkraine

Uzbekistan Iskander Rakhmatullaev eIFL-UZ

Achievement Transfer of the experience of academic libraries corporate network to college libraries. 100 college libraries joined in the library corporate network. It is project of eIFL-UZ team. EIFL-UZUzbekistan

How it was done… About 200 college librarians have been trained to work in corporate library network and use open access resources. New version of automated library system ARMAT was implemented for 100 college libraries. Now there are more than users of corporate databases. 6th annual seminar in March «TECHNOLOGIES OF SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT AND USE IN THE NETWORK OF ELECTRONIC LIBRARIES” with Springer, OUP and Willey was conducted for consortium members and an annual journal was published and distributed to 61 consortium members. Presentations on EBSCO, Elsevier and Springer medical e-resources and on EIFL programs for 200 Master students of Medical Academy were held. EIFL-UZUzbekistan

Advice or Challenge Advice: transfer of consortium experience allows to involve new members to the consortium. Challenges: bureaucracy challenges in the development of the consortium and library cooperation, training of librarians and financial problems. EIFL-UZUzbekistan