Acasă Open Science @BBU

Publication in BBU journals

  • BBU promotes through its journals the Diamond Open Access model – no publication fees and no access fees. The University’s publishing house – Presa Universitară Clujeană / Cluj University Press – offers the possibility to make the published books available free of charge on its platform – http://www.editura.ubbcluj.ro/www/ro/ebooks/about.php

Agreements with publishers

  • Where publication fees are still required, BBU is party to agreements with publishers for reduced or no fees – either through nationwide subscriptions managed by the Association of Universities, Research and Development Institutes and Central University Libraries in Romania (ANELIS PLUS) with mainstream publishers, or through direct agreements with Open Access publishers.

Data publishing

Economic and Social Sciences

Open Software publishing

Open access and/or using open access data platforms and databases

Economic and social sciences

  • COVID-19 – Romanian Economic Impact Monitor, transformed since May 2022 into Romanian Economic Monitor, within the Faculty of Economics and Business Management (FSEGA) – https://econ.ubbcluj.ro/roem/

Arts and Humanities

  • Romans 1by1 (Faculty of History and Philosophy, scientific management: Rada Varga, database engineer: Angela Lumezeanu): http://romans1by1.com/
  • Assessing identity through material culture (STAR-UBB Institute, scientific management: Rada Varga, database engineer: Angela Lumezeanu): http://86.127.67.217:6180/
  • Historical Population Database for Transylvania (Centre for Population Studies, scientific management: Ioan Bolovan, database engineer: Angela Lumezeanu): http://hpdt.ro
  • Historical Data Grinder (Faculty of History and Philosophy, scientific management: Vlad Popovici, database engineer: Angela Lumezeanu): http://hdgrinder.ro
  • Digital Framework for the Austrian Military Border in Transylvania (Faculty of History and Philosophy, scientific management: Vlad Popovici, database engineer: Angela Lumezeanu): http://istoriagranitei.ro/wp/proiecte/rohacs/rohacs-database/

Citizen Science

Economic and Social Sciences

Natural and life sciences

BBU research centers focusing on data development and Open Science models

Digital Humanities Centre – DigiHUBB/Transylvania Digital Humanities Centre – DigiHUBB – https://digihubb.centre.ubbcluj.ro/

Interdisciplinary Centre for Data Science – https://stiintadatelor.centre.ubbcluj.ro/reports/

Centre for Population Studies – https://csp.centre.ubbcluj.ro/ro/

Acknowledging the contribution of Open Science in BBU internal evaluations

In BBU internal competitions & evaluations, the BBU Scientific Board considers all forms of scholarly output, based on qualitative assessments from referees, bibliometrically informed where appropriate in the spirit of the Leiden Manifesto (http://www.leidenmanifesto.org/). Furthermore, the individual academic development plan and its evaluation, for each member of the BBU academic community, allows for the definition and recognition of scholarly contributions across the spectrum (https://senat.ubbcluj.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/HS-nr.-77-privind-modificarea-%C8%99i-completarea-Regulamentului-privind-%C3%AEntocmirea-Statelor-de-func%C8%9Bii.pdf).

The Open Science Working Group at BBU

The Open Science Working Group at BBU was established in 2022, initially within the framework of the Project CNFIS-FDI-2022-0179 “Promoting and supporting Open Science practices in research of excellence at Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca”. It includes the BBU Scientific Council leadership together with volunteers interested in the topic and this remains, as the name implies, open to all interested parties.