Promoting Open Science through new The Bridge of Knowledge platform at Gdansk University of Technology

The process of scholarly communications and adopting Open Science principles is changing dramatically. It has matured significantly by using a proper infrastructure for sharing and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Nowadays, creating awareness among academic community and offer solutions to specific issues are the most important goals for the Library. We would like to present challenges and strategies to promote scientific output of Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), Poland through new established platform “MOST Wiedzy”. MOST Wiedzy in Polish means The Bridge of Knowledge and stands as acronym of Multidisciplinary Open System Transferring Knowledge. It should be stressed that this project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund within the Optional Programme Digital Poland for the years 2014 – 2020. MOST Wiedzy project complements other features under the umbrella of Open Science platform. The platform is a solution that supports not only scholarly communication but try to facilitate the cooperation between university and business industry. The main goals include for example: integrating data from different databases and providers as well as establishing open repository. MOST Wiedzy is a modern platform that allows to present scientific profiles and research conducted at GUT. Through its website, users can search for publications, teaching activities or research equipment. MOST Wiedzy offers repository support from team of experienced librarians that not only upload the open access manuscripts but in addition, steer publications through different phases such as editing or promoting. In our poster, we would like to demonstrate how MOST Wiedzy project helps researcher to share their scientific results, gain recognition and promote their achievements.