Aperta & TÜBİTAK Open Science Compliance

Turkey's national open-science track. Given a TÜBİTAK-funded output (an accepted manuscript, a dataset, or a grant proposal that needs a data plan), this skill turns the TÜBİTAK Açık Bilim Politikası (Open Science Policy) into a concrete checklist: deposit the right object to Aperta, set the correct open-access embargo, justify any closed data under İlke-6 (Principle 6, the closed-data clause), and produce a Veri Yönetim Planı / VYP (data management plan) for the application. It is the Turkish/TÜBİTAK counterpart to the international-facing alterlab-open-science.

Canonical Turkish terms used below (English gloss on first use): açık bilim (open science), Veri Yönetim Planı / VYP (data management plan), kabul edilmiş makale (accepted manuscript), ambargo (embargo), İlke (Principle), etik kurul (ethics committee), KVKK (Turkish Personal Data Protection Law 6698).

When to Use This Skill

Aperta'ya makalemi nasıl yüklerim? (How do I deposit my article to Aperta?)
Prepare a TÜBİTAK data management plan (VYP) for my 1001 application
My article was just accepted — what does the TÜBİTAK open-science policy require?
Justify keeping my clinical dataset closed under TÜBİTAK İlke-6 (privacy/KVKK)
Document open-access compliance for my project's final report (sonuç raporu)
What embargo applies to my social-sciences paper under TÜBİTAK policy?

→ Identify the object (manuscript / dataset / proposal), apply the policy rule from references/policy_mandates.md, and either generate the deposit checklist, the VYP, or the İlke-6 justification. Always end with the verify-against-current-policy disclaimer (see below).

Does NOT Trigger

This skill owns TÜBİTAK/Aperta open science only. Route adjacent asks to the correct sibling:

The line: this skill answers "what must I deposit/embargo/justify to satisfy TÜBİTAK's open-science policy, and how do I do it in Aperta?" It does not write the proposal, choose the ethics committee, or run the KVKK analysis — it consumes the KVKK decision (closed/anonymised?) and emits the İlke-6 justification.

What Aperta Is

Scope and operator come from ULAKBİM's page (ulakbim.tubitak.gov.tr/en/turkey-open-archive-aperta/); platform, DOI prefix and interfaces were checked live on 2026-09-23. Deposit mechanics live in references/aperta_repository.md.

The Binding Mandates (summary)

The TÜBİTAK Açık Bilim Politikası (in force 14 March 2019) covers publications and research data produced wholly or partly with TÜBİTAK support (grants, scholarships, awards, incentives). Its principles, quoted in references/policy_mandates.md (verified 2026-09-23), are the authority — cite that file, not memory.

1. İlke 1 — deposit in Aperta, on acceptance. Deposit the *kabul edilmiş

makale* (accepted manuscript) in the TÜBİTAK Açık Arşivi (Aperta) as soon as the article is accepted; its metadata must be open and machine-readable from the deposit date.

1. İlke 2 — open-access ceilings, counted from publication. The full text must

be open on acceptance where possible, otherwise no later than 6 months after publication for Fen Bilimleri, Teknoloji, Mühendislik ve Matematik (STEM) and 12 months after publication for Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimler (SSH).

1. İlke 4 + ARDEB rule — VYP with the application. The policy recommends a

Veri Yönetim Planı; ARDEB's VYP note requires uploading it to PBS with the other application documents, on TÜBİTAK's five-question template.

1. İlke 6 — document closed data. Where data cannot be opened, fully or for a

period (personal or sensitive data under KVKK, confidentiality, national security, patent/registration periods), the reason must be documented and stated explicitly; the dataset can sit in Aperta as a restricted record with open metadata.

1. İlke 9 — report compliance. The grantee reports policy compliance in the

project sonuç raporu (final report), and TÜBİTAK takes compliance into account when assessing the grantee's future applications.

If a detail is not in references/policy_mandates.md (for example a publisher's own embargo terms), say so and send the user to the policy PDF or the publisher's self-archiving policy rather than filling the gap from memory.

Workflows

A. Deposit an accepted manuscript or dataset to Aperta

1. Classify the object: kabul edilmiş makale vs dataset vs both.
2. Determine the field bucket — STEM (≤ 6 months after publication) or SSH

(≤ 12 months after publication) — to set the latest open date. Default to immediate open unless the user needs a delay; check the publisher's self-archiving terms against the ceiling before the author signs.

1. Decide access mode: open, or restricted if İlke-6 applies (see workflow C).
2. Walk the deposit checklist in references/aperta_repository.md (record

metadata, file upload, licence, DOI minting, version).

1. Confirm the DOI and the open-access date satisfy the embargo ceiling.

B. Scaffold a TÜBİTAK Veri Yönetim Planı (VYP)

Run the generator, then refine its prose with the user's specifics:

uv run python skills/turkish-academia/alterlab-aperta/scripts/vyp_scaffold.py \
    --project "Proje adı" --field stem --lang both \
    --data-closed --closed-reason kvkk \
    --out vyp.md

• --field stem|ssh sets the publication open-access ceiling cited in the plan.
• --lang tr|en|both emits a Turkish VYP, an English DMP, or both.
• --data-closed + --closed-reason kvkk|commercial|security|ethics injects an

İlke-6 justification stub. If the reason is KVKK, hand the lawful-basis / anonymisation decision to `alterlab-kvkk-dmp` and paste its conclusion in — this skill records that data is closed and why at the funder level; it does not perform the KVKK analysis.

The scaffold's eight sections map onto the official five-question ARDEB template (veri_yonetim_plani.docx, uploaded to PBS with the application); the mapping and the section tree are in references/vyp_template.md.

C. Justify a closed dataset under İlke-6

1. Confirm the closure reason is legitimate (KVKK personal/special-category data,

commercial confidentiality, security, or an active ethics restriction).

1. For KVKK reasons, get the lawful-basis + anonymisation outcome from

alterlab-kvkk-dmp first — note that re-identifiable "anonymised" data does not qualify as truly anonymous.

1. Choose the Aperta access mode: restricted record with open metadata (so the

dataset is discoverable and citable even while access is gated).

1. Write the İlke-6 justification (one paragraph: what data, which legal/ethical

basis for closure, who may request access, and any future-opening trigger).

1. Carry that justification into both the VYP and the sonuç raporu.

D. Final-report open-access compliance check

Produce a short compliance statement for the sonuç raporu (İlke 9): for each output, list the Aperta DOI, the access mode, and the open-access date, and confirm it meets the İlke-2 ceiling — or, if closed, cite the İlke-6 justification. The public records API confirms each deposit's DOI and access_right (recipe in references/aperta_repository.md). If generative AI helped draft the report, TÜBİTAK's 2025 ÜYZ guide asks for that use to be declared in the report as well.

Live verification (optional)

When the user needs the current policy or to confirm a repository feature, fetch:

• Policy PDF: https://tubitak.gov.tr/sites/default/files/tubitak_acik_bilim_politikasi_190316.pdf
• ARDEB VYP template: https://tubitak.gov.tr/sites/default/files/2024-04/veri_yonetim_plani.docx
• ULAKBİM Aperta page: https://ulakbim.tubitak.gov.tr/en/turkey-open-archive-aperta/
• The repository itself: https://aperta.ulakbim.gov.tr/

scripts/policy_check.py does a light reachability + keyword probe of these so you can tell the user whether the live policy matches what this skill encodes (it does not scrape or assert new mandates).

Verify-Against-Current-Policy Disclaimer

TÜBİTAK can revise the Açık Bilim Politikası, the VYP template and Aperta's deposit flow. Close by telling the user to confirm the open-access ceilings, the deposit object, and the VYP template against the current policy PDF, the live programme page and the Aperta submission form before relying on this output — a stale rule here would put their grant compliance at risk.

References

• references/policy_mandates.md — the TÜBİTAK Açık Bilim Politikası principles

(İlke 1–9, quoted), with sources and last-verified date.

• references/aperta_repository.md — what Aperta is, its InvenioRDM features and

interfaces, the record-by-record deposit checklist, and how to verify a deposit.

• references/vyp_template.md — the official five-question VYP form, its mapping

to the scaffold, and the bilingual section tree the script emits.

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