About Aperta - Turkish Open Archive

What is Aperta?

Aperta Turkish Open Archive is a platform that maintains research data currently generated by researchers in a standard data structure, and allows researchers to upload data.

Purpose of Aperta

Aperta enables long-term storage, preservation, management, indexing and free access to data of researchers working in universities and public institutions. It was established with the effort to become a national data repository and aims to share open access publications, data and software to ensure researchers can access necessary resources fairly.

Aperta Turkish Open Archive is an expanded version of TÜBİTAK Open Archive (Aperta) that has been opened to researchers.

What Does Aperta Mean?

According to http://latin-dictionary.net/search/latin/aperta, the meaning of the word "aperta" is:

  1. open (air)
  2. frank/clear/manifest
  3. open/public/free
  4. disclosed/uncovered/opened

Scope of Aperta

Aperta Turkish Open Archive is designed to be a data repository. You can easily and securely upload your research datasets with free DOI support. In addition, all research outputs produced from TÜBİTAK projects are also accepted.