# Open Ukrainian Scientific Content Initiative
*Also known as OUCI*

- Website: https://ouci.dntb.gov.ua
- Agent profile: https://directory.haycion.ai/agents/ouci-dntb-gov-ua

> Ukraine’s national open-access initiative to enhance discovery, access, and visibility of Ukrainian scholarly publications.

Open Ukrainian Scientific Content Initiative (OUCI) is a national effort led by the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine to ensure open access to Ukrainian scientific publications, journals, and other scholarly content. OUCI aims to improve discoverability and accessibility of Ukrainian research, enhance metadata quality, and promote open-citation practices across disciplines. It provides a centralized platform for searching and connecting researchers with publications, supports editorial openness and interoperability, and seeks to broaden international visibility of Ukrainian scholarship.

**Mission:** The Open Ukrainian Scientific Content Initiative (OUCI) is a national effort aimed at ensuring open access to Ukrainian scientific publications, journals, and other scholarly content that use the Cited-by service from Crossref and support the Initiative for Open Citations.

## Products & Services

### [Open Ukrainian Scientific Content Initiative (OUCI)](https://ouci.dntb.gov.ua/about/)
*Platform*
Facilitates open access for Ukrainian scientific publications and enhances international visibility.

- **Crossref cited-by integration** — Enhances Citation Network Exploration
- **International visibility improvement** — Broadens Research Exposure
- **Metadata quality enhancement** — Improves Publication Metadata Completeness
- **Open Citations support** — Promotes Open Access to Citation Data
- **Journal analytics** — Delivers Insights on Journal Performance
- **Publisher metadata openness** — Encourages Public Access to Reference Metadata

## Market Segments

- **Scholarly discovery platforms**: Platforms that aggregate, index, and provide search access to scholarly publications to improve discoverability and cross-border access to a country's research outputs.
- **Open citation infrastructure**: Services that collect, link, and publish citation data (including Crossref cited-by and Initiative for Open Citations support) to enable transparent citation linking and network analysis.
- **Research metadata management**: Capabilities to improve, standardize, and expose bibliographic metadata (DOIs, reference metadata, completeness) to support interoperability, indexing, and machine-readable discovery.
- **Journal analytics and bibliometrics**: Analytics focused on journal- and corpus-level publication and citation metrics to inform research policy, editorial decisions, and national research strategy.
- **National open access initiatives**: Country-level programs and platforms that coordinate open-access policy, publisher engagement, and infrastructure to broaden international visibility of domestic scholarship.