Brief summary of 2025
Dear friends, let us turn the page on 2025 with a summary.
We sincerely thank our defenders for the opportunity to live and work.
It is impossible to fit everything we have done into one post, so we have selected the 15 most important results of the work of the M. Maksymovych National Library over the year:
1. We held two webinars on scientific data management and launched the Data Management programme. Stay tuned for new webinars and guides in 2026.
2. Prepared an electronic guide, “Scientific Data and Preprints in Zenodo,” with step-by-step instructions for publishing data in an international repository with DOI registration.
3. We initiated and conducted, together with a group of libraries of the Alliance of Ukrainian Universities, with the support of the Postgraduate and Doctoral Department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and the Council of Young Scientists of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, a spring school for postgraduate students and young scientists: “Academic Writing and Open Scientific Practices,” which we plan to make an annual event.
4. Developed a new page on the library website with constantly updated information about open educational resources in various fields of knowledge.
5. We exchanged experiences with colleagues from the University of Konstanz’s Communication, Information, Media Centre (KIM) within the EUniWell – European University for Well-Being Alliance and participated in the training course “Preserving Archives in Times of Crisis” (ICA, State Archival Service of Ukraine, ALIPH).
6. The eKNUTSHIR institutional repository is included in the OpenDOAR global catalogue, the ROR registry, and indexed in OpenAire.
7. The National Library confirmed its membership in the EIFL Ukraine Consortium, which provided the university community with free access to nine electronic resources.
It was a difficult year, and like all Ukrainians, we worked amid constant anxiety and blackouts. However, we achieved a lot, and we are optimistic about the future, because the road is conquered by those who MOVE FORWARD! The development strategy for 2026-2030 has been approved, so we are MOVING FORWARD and working for the benefit of the University community.
May the new year 2026 bring us all the long-awaited victory and peace!
