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to promote open access in Hungary and thus further the goals of the European Commission. To this end, the President of
the NRDI Office initiated the establishment of the Open Science Expert Committee. Furthermore, to propagate open
access in Hungary, domestic higher education institutions and the HAS Library and Information Centre created a con-
sortium which aims to increase the national and international visibility of Hungarian science by the effective dissemination
of scientific results, namely by building a national infrastructural network for open access repositories, creating a method-
ological centre, the domestic application of foreign know-how and international standards, adopting the complementary
channels of scientific communication and fostering international relationships.

The relevance and the quantity of these background infrastructures have substantially increased recently. They belong to
the ESFRI category of e-infrastructures.

2.4.4. The set of criteria used for creating the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap

In order to create the roadmap, a set of criteria was necessary for the classification of RIs operating in Hungary. The list
of RIs to be included in the Roadmap was too large and very heterogeneous. So, their classification were based on and jus-
tified according to the following selection criteria:

Selection criteria:

• Open access and capacity – provides access to any domestic and international research community subject to the avail-
ability of capacities; open to industrial cooperation (for a fee); able to provide and operate the services necessary for
open use (umber of cooperation agreements).
• International connection – maintains and is actively involved in actual international research cooperation; able to host
foreign researchers; and able to participate in international research projects (number of international research infras-
tructure cooperation agreements generated by the research infrastructure).
• Uniqueness, scientific excellence – outstanding technology level and associated expertise makes it comparable with the
relevant European RIs (number of publications and patents authored together with external researchers, broken down
by research institution).
• National (strategic) importance – has scientific importance for at least the domestic research community (number of
researchers served, including PhD students).
• Room for further development – keeps abreast of new development trends; has the potential of adapting and developing
further technologies.

2.5. The classification of Hungarian research infrastructures into RI groups

The National Research Infrastructure Roadmap classifies RIs operating in Hungary into research infrastructure groups
which were set up with respect to the following factors:

• Most of the RIs operating in Hungary are not unique and can be found in large numbers in European countries excelling
in RDI.
• They provide the essential professional background for a country to be able to integrate into the international research
community. Here researchers can acquire the professional skills required for taking part in a large RI considered unique
at international or European level.

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