National Medical Library (NML), Czech Republic, has implemented a self-archiving service for Czech authors of biomedical research publications, supporting the Green OA Self archiving mandate. The self-archiving service is composed mainly from Open Source components. A publication in the PDF format is easily submitted through Medvik web portal. Authorized submitter is guided through the process and is obliged to select a suitable Creative Commons license. Several steps are taken to ensure that the submitted material can be archived and made freely accessible for everyone using open licensing. The uploaded PDF file is transformed into an archiving package which is automatically imported into NML’s Digital library. The Digital library uses Open Source system based on Fedora repository and it is open for metadata harvesting through OAI-PMH standard and thus the archived publications can be promoted to higher level repositories, i.e. Open-AIRE and Czech Digital Library. Other functionalities have been implemented using integration of Scopus, Web of Science, JCR and Sherpa/RoMEO web services which allows to provide additional relevant information in a publication record view context.

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