CyberLeninka as a part of Russian

Open Science infrastructure

Dmitry Semyachkin / CyberLeninka, Association “Open Science”, Keldysh Institute
of Applied Mathematics Russian Academy of Sciences

Mikhail Sergeev / CyberLeninka, Association “Open Science”

Eugene Kislyak / CyberLeninka, Association “Open Science”

skynet@cyberleninka.ru

Introduction
The issue of scientific knowledge openness is urgent worldwide,
but for Russia it is particularly crucial for two reasons: open access
policy is still not accepted by government and the most cited
academic journals are poorly accessible. Solution for this issue
is proposed by means of the gold-oriented method which
is implemented in the project of open access repository called
as CyberLeninka. It is designed in order to improve scholarly
communication, promote science and research activities, control
research papers quality and increase citation/download rates of
journals in Russia and CIS.
Problem
The Budapest Open Access Initiative proposes two ways to meet the goal of open access:
green and gold. First approach of self-archiving (green) is not widely used in Russia and CIS:
there are no subject-specific repositories for key areas of science and just minority
of authors publish their papers in institutional repositories. Second approach of OA journals
(gold) is not popular as well: the number of OA journals is insignificant and most of them
are not popular among scientists.
Results
CyberLeninka contains about 600 Russian and CIS peer-reviewed scholarly journals and more than 500,000
research papers in all areas of science over the last few years.

World’s top CyberLeninka’s web site http://cyberleninka.ru is visited by more than 140,000 people per day (about 2,5
million unique visitors per month), more than 350,000 registered users and more than 80,000 subscribers
in Facebook, Vkontakte and Twitter, that demonstrates the great interest to Russian scholarly journals.

4 place
th

in Google Scholar Monthly visits by SimilarWeb

6 000 000
Russia in top-5
Europe countries 4 000 000
by number of papers 41 place
st

in open access in world’s top portals 2 000 000

2014 2015 0
December January February March April May

Awards Export CyberLeninka.ru > 500 000 papers arXiv.org > 1 000 000 papers

~ 70%
CyberLeninka has entered the list of Creative Commons
projects (section “Science”). About 70% of journals are placed
in CyberLeninka under CC BY license.

Wiki Runet
Award 2015 Award 2014 In 2014 we have founded Russian non-profit Association “Open Science” to promote open access to scientific
research. As a part of this activity we have created the blog called as “Open Access and Open Science
RePEc in Russia” http://open-science.ru/ which contains the most of the major
VKontakte news about OA in Russia. Also we consistently work to promote
Award 2014 and disseminate OA within Russian media and government.

Methods
We propose gold-oriented method which assumes placing
research papers of traditional academic journals in open access
and under open licenses (Creative Commons) and ensuring their
visibility on the Internet. The method is implemented in open
access repository called as CyberLeninka.
Conclusion
Currently CyberLeninka is a part of Russian research e-infrastructure and contains raw data
about the following objects: authors, organizations, journals, papers, references, views/downloads
and relationships between them. This data is enough to organize a open access repository of research
papers and gather target audience, including scientists, researchers, PhD students, etc.
The next step is to refine and enrich this data through interacting with authors and scientific organizations,
academic publishers, universities, etc. and collect additional data. Based on this data we plan to build new
high-level services and provide special features for scientists to connect, collaborate and work together.