From: Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak Date: Fri, 21 August 2015 10:42:13 I’m pleased to present the English version of the report “Open Science in Poland 2014. A Diagnosis”, prepared by the Open Science Platform team. It is just a puzzle of a picture of OA in Europe, but I hope it might be useful for researchers (and other people interested in OA) analyzing scholarly communication. The aim of the report is to present a comprehensive overview of the current state of openness in Polish science. We present the institutional context of Open Science in Poland and analyse its selected legal aspects, as well as describe the current e-infrastructure of Open Access. The report also summarize the results of desk research and of surveys of Polish scientific journals and Polish scientists conducted for the purpose of the report. The picture presented in the report shows the strengths and limitations of Open Access in Poland. The specific OA model in Poland is mainly based on grass-root initiatives implemented by publishers of scientific journals, researchers themselves, institutions providing IT solutions, and several institutions managing repositories. While Poland still lacks institutional OA strategies and policies, both on the governmental and institutional level, the number of publications in OA is growing dynamically. According to the report, in 2014 there were 947 OA journals in Poland. The report is available on the Open Science Platform website (http://pon.edu.pl/index.php/nasze-publikacje?pubid=16) under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 PL licence. Please share this report within the Open Access community. Regards, Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak Open Science Platform Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling University of Warsaw + 48 791 177 032 [log in to unmask] @OpenSciPlatform @Lidia_Stepinska