Avtorica najprej predstavi, kako se je razvijal odprti dostop v raziskovalni dejavnosti Evropske unije. Z januarjem 2014 so z okvirnim programom financiranja Obzorje 2020 stopila v veljavo tudi določila glede odprtega dostopa. Hkrati so bile države članice EU pozvane, da naj sprejmejo jasne politike glede odprtega dostopa do znanstvenih publikacij, ki so nastale v okviru projektov financiranih z javnimi sredstvi. Prikazala je stanje odprtega dostopa v Sloveniji in portal OpenAIRE, na katerem se zbirajo podatki o odprtih objavah in raziskovalnih podatkih, ki so nastali v okviru evropskih projektov ali nacionalnega financiranja raziskovalne dejavnosti.

The author introduced the development of open access in the research field of the European Union. Horizon 2020 brought us guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data. At the same time EU member states were asked to define clear policies for the dissemination of and open access to scientific publications resulting from publicly funded research. The state of art in the field of open access in Slovenia was presented, as well as the OpenAIRE portal - the location where data produced in the framework of European projects or as a result of national public funding of research, are collected.