The Ad Astra Association has launched the Ad Astra Open Access Archive, which I believe is the first OA archive in Romania. It's not limited to Romanian research, however, but open to scientists from all countries. From the front page:
Part of the infrastructure needed for doing science is a community of like-minded scientists. For science to take hold in a country, especially if the usual mechanisms for promoting personal contacts are few, it is essential to develop a community that sustains itself through mutual support and interactions. Because of relative isolation that still persists in developing countries, scientists are often unaware of the extent and nature of science that is being done in their own countries, and have inadequate personal knowledge of the fellow scientists. They also have some difficulty in publicizing their work quickly.
To provide assistance in these matters, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has organized an Open Access Archive to allow the scientific work of any scientists from any country to be posted free of charge. Authors may upload pre-prints, reprints, conference papers, pre-publication book chapters and the author's CV.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/11/2006 10:02:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
