About

eResearch@Ozyegin is an academic, open-access repository. It aims to collect, preserve and make Ozyegin University’s scientific output available online, without any or the least financial, legal or technical restrictions, in order to increase the impact and the visibility of the institution and its authors. It was established in 2010 to support the dissemination of knowledge produced by the University members to the wider community both locally and globally.

eResearch@Ozyegin covers articles, proceedings, conference papers, book chapters, theses, lecture notes and any other scholarly work of affiliated authors (faculty, staff, students or groups). It also offers a useful platform to store objects of conference and seminars organized by the Ozyegin University members. It allows users to read, download, save, copy, print, reuse and link to the full text of its content. Whenever possible, the outputs available from eResearch@Ozyegin can be downloaded or viewed online and open access.

It runs on Dspace, open source software originally developed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the USA. It is compatible with OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). All items deposited in eResearch@Ozyegin is indexed by Google Scholar, OpenDOAR and ROAR, harvested by OpenAIRE. It uses Dublin Core as metadata elements and the metadata is OpenAIRE and DRIVER compatible.

For further information please contact eresearch@ozyegin.edu.tr or call us at 0216 564 94 94


Benefits for Authors

  • Long-term preservation of your work
  • Greater public access to the Özyeğin University's research activities
  • Accessibility through search engines such as Google, directories such as ROAR and OpenDOAR
  • Strengthening of the prestige of the work and that of the author
  • Increase of the impact, recognition and the visibility of Özyeğin University’s researches
  • Quick distribution of research results (interoperability with other research systems)
  • Organized access to the body of a researcher's work for students and others
  • A long-term stable URL that can be used in a citation to link to items in the repository
  • “Access Control” – if you do not wish everyone to see the full text version of your publications, access can be controlled at many levels.
  • Search box option to access the content of the documents, by author, title or subject areas.
  • Increase of a faster and a stronger communication among researchers
  • It makes elusive items such as some conference papers and posters, unpublished works and out of print items easy to obtain.
  • It meets requirement of major funding bodies (e.g. European Commission) in making research outputs produced as a result of their funding available, open access.