Hungary

According to a survey based on the DRIVER Inventory Study, there are 8 institutional repositories in the country, 7 of them registered in OAIster, openDOAR, ROAR and BASE. These repositories are maintained by 4 out of the 26 universities in the country. Six of the repositories use EPrints, one uses DSpace and there is one based on a locally developed software.

The most important factors preventing the building of repositories are lack of knowledge in Open Access and a lack of technical know-how. According to a Government mandate on the open availability of PhD theses (March 2007), universities are responsible for providing open access to the full text of theses.

The DRIVER wiki may be a useful source of further information.

Are there developments in this country that you would like to inform the DRIVER community about? If so, please visit the DRIVER wiki. There you will find guest editors' contributions to the countries pages. Information about the easy process of editing pages and how to obtain a password can be found on the wiki under "PmWiki Software". We look forward to your visit.

Last updated: 14-Nov-2008