Khazar University Library and Information Center has involved in a wide range of Open Access-related activities. These activities fall into three broad areas: 

• OA Repositories;
• Open Access Journals;
• OA Advocacy; 

OA activities include the following: 

• Promote rights-protected open access Institutional repository that preserve research output of Khazar University community in perpetuity.
• Build a range of new kinds of partnerships and alliances to support OA, both within University departments and between other Azeri institutions.
• Base service-development OA strategies on substantive assessment of local needs rather than blindly replicating work done at another institution
• Engage with key local policy issues and stakeholders to encourage institutional engagement with national and international OA policy issues
• Develop outreach and marketing strategies that making OA journals accessible and discoverable to  readers
• Actively promote the positive change in open access scholarly communication system. 

LIC strives to outreach to the University faculty to educate and promote Open Access options. We work closely with faculty to both educate on the different publishing options and also to assist faculty with locating Open Access scholarly materials and including these materials into curriculum by one-on-one consultation, presentations, etc.

To encourage acceptance of Open Access among the academic and research community in our country, we made a number of attempts to disseminate information, including a series workshops, presentations, translation of key documents into Azeri.

LIC has made progress by:

• encouraging university academic community to publish their work according to open access principles;
• developing Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (KJHSS) and other university open access online-journals in order to maintain the standards of quality assurance and good scientific practice (KJHSS is available under a Creative Commons Attribution3.0  (CC_BY)).
• developing the open access Khazar University Institutional Repository (KUIR).

Khazar University Library and Information Center (LIC) has been participating in Open Access Week during last some years. The main our activities were presentations, publications, translations key OA documents from English into Azeri.

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

This year a special attention was paid to series workshops  devoted  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 (KUIR).

Khazar University academic staff publications are either to be deposited in the KUIR, or to be published in the Khazar open access journals. Meanwhile, the advantages of worldwide free and unrestricted access to scientific research are beyond controversy. For researchers, using open access maximises their research impact, increases their visibility and raises their reputation. Users are benefiting from open access as well: they can access relevant information on the Web worldwide at any time.

Discussions and presentations of the creation and establishment working models of Open Access journals and institutional repositories for the academic and library community was  held at the Khazar University Library and Information Center in October, 2018 during Open Access Week.