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email: ekualmail@ulakbim.gov.tr
Phone 519-884-0710 x3673 |
Elif Aytek GURSES Deputy Director elif@ulakbim.gov.tr Number of office staff: 90 |
Brief description
ULAKBIM has started the National Electronic Sources Academic Licence (EKUAL) Project, following the TUBITAK Science Committee resolution dd. 19.11.2005 / no 136, in the year 2006, with the aim of enabling widespread access to scientific knowledge among researchers, increasing academic data production activity in our country, and diffusing the information services nation-wide, in accordance with its basic mission. The scope of the project has been extended to cover Training and Research Hospitals affiliated to the Ministry of Health upon the resolution dd. 11.02.2006 / no 139 by TUBITAK Science Committee. Thus, it is aimed to create equality of opprotunity in access to international scientific and academic knowledge among the researchers in both universities and Training and Research Hospitals, and to increase the efficiency of scientific knowledge production. TÜBÝTAK EKUAL Aims at
- creating equal opportunity of access to scientific resources for research institutions having lower budgets,
- helping researchers save time enabling the efficient use of databases,
- increasing the efficiency of research activities nationwide,
- ensuring economic use of the country's resources,
- increasing the production of scientific publications in the national and international scale,
- enhancing the competitive power of our country in scientific research.
Legal structure
Government-supported (formal)
Primary functions
Number and type of member libraries
142 universities (including military and other academic instititions, 65 training and research hospitals, total 207 member (as of Jan 2010)