Ukrainian Scientific Emigration and Open Access
Keywords:
Ukrainian Scientific Emigration, Ukrainian Free University, Open Access, publication activity, digital libraries, bookmarksAbstract
The sixth wave of Ukrainian scientific emigration, which began in February 2022, and the formation of new structures in the Ukrainian scientific diaspora have stimulated research on the study and preservation of Ukrainian scientific heritage abroad. However, such research will not be effective if not based on Open Access concepts and technologies. The purpose of this study is to examine, using the analysis of staff composition at the Ukrainian Free University and its publication activity in its first five years of operation, what measures are necessary to study and preserve the scientific heritage of all six waves of Ukrainian scientific emigration. The article addresses the following issues: periodization of the waves of Ukrainian scientific emigration; identification of Ukrainian scientific and educational organizations of the first wave; brief history of the Ukrainian Free University; publication activity of UFU professors (1921–1925) with selection of works published in Open Access; linguistic biographical Wikipedia articles for UFU professors (1921–1925); distribution of publications by UFU professors through digital libraries and repositories; analysis of bookmarks using a case study; standards for describing works in electronic collections of rare and old publications; approaches to the development of the program "Open Access to the Scientific Knowledge and Cultural Heritage of Ukrainian Scientific Emigration". The results show the importance of preserving continuity of the traditions established by the first waves of Ukrainian scientific emigration. The new generation of Ukrainian scientific emigrants should maintain these traditions. To study and understand them, the activities of scientists of previous emigration waves must be examined, and their results made available to the wider scientific community through digitization and open access.
References
Bibliothèque Ukrainienne Symon Petlura. (2024). Bibliothèque Ukrainienne Symon Petlura [Symon Petlura Ukrainian Library]. http://bibliotheque-petlura.com/ua/
Danesh, F., & Mardani-Nejad, A. (2020). A historical overview of bibliometrics. In R. Ball (Ed.), Handbook of bibliometrics (pp. 7–18). De Gruyter Saur. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110646610-003
de Rassenfosse, G., Murovana, T., & Uhlbach, W. H. (2023). The effects of war on Ukrainian research. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 10, Article 856. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02346-x
Gaind, N., Abbot, A., Witze, A., Gibney, E., Tollefson, J., Irwin, A., & Van Noorden, R. (2022). Seven ways the war in Ukraine is changing global science. Nature, 607, 440–443. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01960-0
Gilley, C. (2014). The change of signposts in the Ukrainian emigration: A contribution to the history of Sovietophilism in the 1920s. In A. Umland (Ed.), Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society (pp. 1–455). ibidem-Verlag.
Godin, B. (2006). On the origins of bibliometrics. Scientometrics, 68(1), 109–133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-006-0086-0
Gousseff, C. (2024). An exceptional welcome: The Russian academic exile in Prague (1920– 1939)—State policy and experiences. In L. Dakhli, P. Laborier, & F. Wolff (Eds.), Academics in a century of displacement: Migrationsgesellschaften (pp. 29–46). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43540-0_2
Holiat, R. S. (1964). Korotka istoriia Ukrainskoho vilnoho universytetu [Short history of the Ukrainian Free University]. Shevchenko Scientific Society. https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/7728/file.pdf [in Ukrainian]
Hua, A. (2005). Diaspora and cultural memory. In V. Agnew (Ed.), Diaspora, memory, and identity: A search for home (pp. 191–208). University of Toronto Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442673878.2
Karmadonova, T. (2023). The long way home: Migration trends of Ukrainian researchers in the modern world (1991–2023). History of Science and Technology, 13(2), 263–279. https://doi.org/10.32703/2415-7422-2023-13-2-263-279
Kot, S. I. (2014). Arkadii Zhukovskyi (12.01.1922, Chernivtsi—2.10.2014, Paris). In M. M. Var- vartsev (Ed.), Ukraina v mizhnarodnykh vidnosynakh: Entsyklopedychnyi slovnyk-dovidnyk [Ukraine in international relations: Encyclopedic dictionary-reference] (Issue 5, pp. 163–164). Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Varvartsev_Mykola/Ukraina_v_mizhnarodnykh_vidnosynakh_Entsyklopedychnyi_slovnyk-dovidnyk_Vypusk_5.pdf?PHPSES-SID=a6n8v0ms766s4norba211367l5 [in Ukrainian]
Kucheruk, O. S. (2003). Library named after O. Olzhych. In I. M. Dziuba, A. I. Zhukovsky, & M. G. Zheleznyak (Eds.), Entsyklopediia suchasnoi Ukrainy [Encyclopedia of modern Ukraine]. Institute of Encyclopaedic Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. https://esu.com.ua/article-41984 [in Ukrainian]
Lisova, K. (2015). Tsentry doslidzhennia istorii derzhavy ta derzhavnoho ustroiu Ukrainy v emihratsii (1920–1945) [Centers of research of history the state system of Ukraine are in emigration (1920–1945)]. Gileya: Naukovyi visnyk, 101, 48–51. [in Ukrainian]
Moskovkin, V. M. (2024, August 10). Publikatsii profesoriv i vykladachiv Ukrainskoho vilnoho universytetu, rozmishcheni u vidkrytomu dostupi [Publications of professors and teachers of the Ukrainian Free University, placed in the Open Access]. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/records/13333508 [in Ukrainian]
Moskovkin, V. M. (2025). Naukovo-pedahohichnyi sklad Ukrainskoho vilnoho universytetu ta yikhni publikatsii v 1921–1925 rr. u konteksti vidkrytoho dostupu [Research and teaching staff of the Ukrainian Free University and their publications in 1921–1925 in the Open Access context]. Nauka ta naukoznavstvo, 1(127), 50–75. https://doi.org/10.15407/sofs2025.01.050 [in Ukrainian]
Narizhnyi, S. (1942). Ukrainska emigratsiia: Kulturna robota ukrainskoi emigratsii mizh dvoma svitovymy viinamy [Ukrainian emigration: Cultural work of the Ukrainian emigration between the two World wars] (Part 1). Knihtisk. https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/2648/file.pdf [in Ukrainian]
Okoli, C., Mehdi, M., Mesgari, M., Nielsen, F. Å., & Lanamäki, A. (2014). Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders: A systematic review of scholarly research on Wikipedia readers and readership. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(12), 2381–2403. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23162
Petryk, M. (2024). Osoblyvosti periodyzatsii ta klasyfikatsii emihratsii z Ukrainy (ostannia chvert XIX stolittia—2023 r.) [Features of the periodization and classification of Ukrainian emigration (last quarter of the XIX century—2023)]. Etnichna istoriia narodiv Yevropy, 73, 104–115. https://doi.org/10.17721/2518-1270.2024.73.13 [in Ukrainian]
Polutnytskyi, V. (2020). Vnesok emihratsii z Ukrainy mizhvoiennoho periodu v rozvytok istorychnykh doslidzhen: Tematychnyi, metodychnyi ta kontseptualnyi aspekty [The contribution of Ukrainian emigration of the interwar period to the development of historical science research: Thematic, methodological and conceptual aspects]. Naukovi zapysky Natsionalnoho universytetu Ostrozka akademiia: Seriia “Istorychni nauky”, 31, 98–104. https://doi.org/10.25264/2409-6806-2020-31-98-107 [in Ukrainian]
Popyk, V. (2021). Biohrafiia v publikatsiiakh naukovykh i kulturnykh tsentriv Zakhidnoukrainskoi diaspory [Biography in publications of scientific and cultural centers of Western Ukrainian diaspora]. Rukopysna ta knyzhkova spadshchyna Ukrainy, 27, 166–180. https://doi.org/10.15407/rksu.27.166 [in Ukrainian]
Prymak, T. M. (2001). Dmytro Doroshenko: A Ukrainian émigré historian of the interwar period. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 25(1/2), 31–56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41036824
Savchenko, A. (2023). Mykyta Shapoval as a leader of the Ukrainian emigration in interwar Czechoslovakia. Ukrainski studii: Istorychni ta filosofski nauky, 37, 16–22. https://doi.org/10.26565/2227-6505-2023-37-02
Shcherbakivskyi, V. (1925). Holovni elementy ornamentatsii ukrainskykh pysanok i yikh pokhodzhennia [Main elements of ornamentation of Ukrainian Easter eggs and their origin]. Ukrainske istoryko-filolohichne tovarystvo. https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/10813/file.pdf [in Ukrainian]
Shelukhin, V. (2024). Ukrainskyi sotsiolohichnyi instytut: Fraktsiina polityka, doslidzhennia ta rozviduvalni sluzhby v rozvytku ukrainskoi sotsiolohii [Ukrainian Sociological Institute: Factional politics, research, and intelligence services in the development of Ukrainian sociology]. Sotsiolohiia: Teoriia, metody, marketynh, 1, 110–157. https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2024.01.110 [in Ukrainian]
Shlyakhtychenko, M. (1978). Do biohrafii d-ra Oleha Kandyby-Olzhycha [To the biography of Dr. Oleh Kandyba-Olzhych]. Ukrainskyi istoryk, 01-03, 120–127. https://chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Shliakhtychenko_Mykhailo/Do_biohrafii_d-ra_Oleha_Kandyby-Olzhycha/ [in Ukrainian]
State Statistics Service of Ukraine. (2016). Naukovi kadry ta kilkist orhanizatsii [Scientific personnel and number of organizations]. https://ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2005/ni/ind_rik/ind_u/2002.html [in Ukrainian]
Ulianovskyi, V., & Ulianovska, S. (1993). Ukrainian scientific and cultural emigration to Czechoslovakia between the two world wars. In D. Antonovych (Ed.), Ukrainska kultura: Lektsii [Ukrainian culture: Lectures] (pp. 489–491). https://litopys.org.ua/cultur/cult25.htm [in Ukrainian]
Ukrainian Free University in Prague, 1926–1931. (1931). Ukrainskyi vilnyi universytet u Prazi 1926–1931 [Ukrainian Free University in Prague, 1926–1931]. State Printing House. https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/20012/file.pdf [in Ukrainian]
Ukrainian Free University in Prague, in 1921–1926. (1927). Ukrainskyi vilnyi universytet u Prazi 1921–1926 [Ukrainian Free University in Prague, in 1921–1926]. State Printing House. https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/22875/file.pdf [in Ukrainian]
Universitas Libera Ucrainensis: 1921–2011. (2011). Universitas Libera Ucrainensis: 1921–2011 [Ukrainian Free University: 1921–2011]. In U. Patzke, M. Szafowal, & R. Yaremko (Eds.), Ukrainian Free University. Series: Varia (Vol. 56). https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/3477/file.pdf
Vidnyanskyi, S. V. (1994). Kulturno-osvitnia i naukova diialnist ukrainskoi emihratsii v Chekhoslovachchyni: Ukrainskyi vilnyi universytet (1921–1945) [Cultural, educational and scientific activity of the Ukrainian emigration in Czechoslovakia: Ukrainian Free University (1921–1945)]. Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. http://history.org.ua/JournALL/Preprint/Preprint_1994_1/Preprint_1994_1.pdf [in Ukrainian]
Zavorotna, N. (2019). Scholars in exile: The Ukrainian intellectual world in interwar Czechoslovakia. University of Toronto Press. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22477
Downloads
Published
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Vladimir Moskovkin (Author)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors retain copyright in their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
The content may be freely read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched, cited, and used for any lawful purpose, provided appropriate credit is given to the original authors.
