In the DABAR system repositories, a total of over 250,000 digital objects have been published in January 2024, and this number continues to grow consistently every day. The majority of the published objects are final theses, undergraduate theses, and specialist papers, with over 212,800 of them being made available.
During June and July 2023, user testing of the DABAR system was carried out due to the development of a new version of the Digital Academic Archives and Repositories system. The purpose of conducting user experience testing was done with the aim to improve the DABAR system, and it is based on the method of observing the actual way of using the product, in this case, the repositories in the DABAR system. The testing was conducted by the UX testing manager from SRCE, who guided users through the tasks they performed during the testing of the DABAR system.
In the DABAR system, storage of a new type of object has been enabled, which pertains to the storage of Research Data Management Plans (DMP). This storage option has been made available because the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) will require project leaders to store and publish their DMPs in their institutional repositories.
The content of the Dabar platform is included in Summon discovery service provided by the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) for all public universities, public polytechnics and scientific institutes.
At the annual conference SRCE e-Infrastructure Days - SRCE DEI 2021, as part of the thematic block “Information and data in science”, an award was given to repositories in DABAR for promoting open access. The winners of the award for promoting open access are the following repositories:
The content of the Dabar platform is included in the EBSCO Discovery System (EDS)
Five years ago, DABAR was put into production. During that period, 142 digital repositories were established in DABAR and 127,716 objects were published.
A support for storing and selfarchiving of datasets has been implemented in the Croatian national infrastructure for digital repositories - DABAR.
On the annual EUNIS conference SRCE received the EUNIS Elite Award for Excelence in implementing the DABAR (Digital Academic Archives and Repositories) system based on the paper DABAR – the national infrastructure for digital repositories written by Draženko Celjak, Zoran Bekić, Marko Cundeković, Ljiljana Jertec, Miroslav Milinović and Alen Zubić.
The number of digital objects stored in Dabar has reached 30,000. This number includes evaluation papers (bachelor’s, diploma and specialist theses, doctoral dissertations, and PhD theses), their additions and new digital objects – papers published in journals.
After a workshop was held at Srce, the institutions have started submitting the papers published in journals. So far, 95 papers have been stored (94 of which are in open access). With 25 papers stored each, the institutions which have stored the most papers are:
