Enhanced publications in V4 countries.

The article describes the project Enhancing scholarly communication: National Initiatives to manage research data in V4 countries. The main goal of the project is a survey about state of research data management, repository contents, services and archiving policies in colleges, universities and research institutions on national levels. The results of the survey will be presented by representatives from Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Poland. This text Is a collaborative work by authors participating In the "Enhancing scholarly communication: national initiatives to manage research data in the V4 countries" project. This paper contains jive parts: An introduction to Open Access in scholarly communication, research data and projects The report from the survey of Hungarian universities The report from the Survey of Polish Scientific and Research-Development Units The report from the survey of Slovak universities and scholarly institutions The report from the survey of Czech research institutions and universities [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]