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16 M. Ojsteršek [et al.]: Establishment of the Slovenian Universities' Repositories …, 15–39 Library, 58 (2014) 3 Abstract The paper presents the legal, organisational and technical perspectives regarding the imple- mentation of the Slovenian national open access infrastructure for electronic theses and dis- sertations as well as for research publications. The infrastructure consists of four institutional repositories and a national portal that aggregates content from the university repositories and other Slovenian archives in order to provide a common search engine, recommendation of simi- lar publications, and similar text detection. We have developed the software which is integrated with the universities' information and authentication systems and with the COBISS.SI. During the project the necessary legal background was defined and processes for mandatory submis- sion of electronic theses and dissertations as well as of research publications were designed. The processes for data exchange between the institutional repositories and the national portal, and the processes for similar text detection and recommendation system were established. Bi- lingual web and mobile applications, a recommendation system and the interface suitable for persons with disabilities are provided to the users from around the world. The repositories are an effective promotion tool for universities and their researchers. It is expected that they will im- prove the recognition of Slovenian universities in the world. The complex national open access infrastructure with similar text detection support and integration with other systems will enable the storage of almost eighty percent of peer-reviewed scientific papers, annually published by Slovenian researchers. The majority of electronic theses and dissertations yearly produced at the Slovenian higher education institutions will also be accessible. Keywords: open access, national infrastructures, institutional repositories, similar text detection, recommender systems 1 Uvod Z razvojem interneta so se zelo izboljšale možnosti objavljanja rezultatov raziskav. Spletni iskalniki v manj kot sekundi najdejo povezave do najbolj zanimivih publikacij z želenega raziskovalnega področja, zato so raziskovalne organizacije po svetu že na začetku osemdesetih let prejšnjega stoletja ugotovile, da lahko s pomočjo interneta povečajo svojo prepoznavnost in odmevnost del svojih raziskovalcev. Najprej je večina organizacij zaključna dela študija, članke in tehnična poročila objavljala na svojih sple- tnih straneh ali strežnikih FTP, kasneje pa so ugotovili, da potrebujejo institucional- ni repozitorij, ki bo omogočil iskanje in brskanje ter samoshranjevanje teh publikacij (Kim, 2011). Institucionalni repozitorij je digitalna zbirka, ki vsebuje intelektualno pro- dukcijo ustanove, ki ga vzpostavi. Ker so publikacije iz repozitorija dostopne večjemu številu uporabnikov, se lahko znanost hitreje razvija, zato znanje ni več monopol pre- možnih (Suber, 2012).