Khazar University Community is sure that comprehensive Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature and research documentation is vital to less-developed countries, such as Azerbaijan, to help us keep up with the frontiers of science. It’s very important for academia, research and library communities in Azerbaijan to create and establish working models of Open Access journals and institutional repositories. Therefore, we intend to make progress by

• encouraging Khazar University academic community to publish their work according to the principles of the open access;
• developing Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences  and other university open access online-journals in order to maintain the standards of quality assurance and good scientific practice;
• developing open access Khazar University Institutional Repository .

Translation the Berlin Declaration on Open Access from English into Azeri by Khazar University staff will help academic institutions, research funding agencies, libraries in Azerbaijan to more clearly understand the advantages of worldwide free and unrestricted open access to scientific research.

Discussion of the Berlin Declaration   for the Azerbaijani library  community will be held at the Khazar University Library and Information Center.