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Lund University Libraries Head Office
Is there room for a Co-ordinated Nordic Approach?
Seminar on Open Online Access to Research, Oslo November 11 th , 2003 Lars Björnshauge, Lund University Libraries
The two roads towards Open Access
Supporting Open Access via changing the business model – BOAI 1 – The Golden Road (Harnad)
Supporting Open Access via Self Archiving –Institutional Repositories – Subject Repositories – BOAI 2 – The Green/Blue Road (Harnad) November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
In the Nordic Countries – in brief 1. Open Access Journals (BOAI 1) 2. Self-Archiving (BOAI 2) 3. Creating Awareness 4. Promoting open access material in library & information services Lars Björnshauge November 2003
OAI-compliant Institutional repositories in Nordic Countries OAIster
Finland:
VTT Publications Register
Norway:
University of Oslo, Digital Library
Sweden:
Academic Archive On-Line (DiVA)
Epsilon Publishing System
LU:research Lars Björnshauge November 2003
Consolidation services
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – http://www.doaj.org/
A collection of peer reviewed open access journals
All disciplines – all languages
One interface Lars Björnshauge November 2003
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In the pipeline
Open Access Journals (BOAI 1)
Nordic language journals in humanities & social sciences - Nordic board for periodicals in the humanities and social sciences (NOP-HS) November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Today: Subsidizing Nordic Language Journals
Current set-up:
Traditional publishing based on subscription fees subsidized by the Nordic board for periodicals in the humanities and social sciences (NOP HS)
Problem:
Limited national, Nordic & international visibility November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Tomorrow: Promoting Nordic Research (via OA-journals)
Scholarly Publishing in the future – a joint Nordic Project.
Report prepared for the Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. June 2003 Lars Björnshauge November 2003
Proposed outcome (among other things):
Among other things - Transforming existing subscription based journals into open access journals
Application for funding:
Danish Library Authority,
NIFU (Norway)
Hanken (Finland)
Lund Univ. Libraries (Sweden)
Approved by NOP-HS Nov. 2003 November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
In the pipeline
Self-Archiving/Institutional Repositories/Subject Repositories (BOAI 2) November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
In the pipeline: Self-Archiving/Institutional Repositories (BOAI 2)
Denmark:
Denmarks Electronic Research Library (DEF) – working group
Sweden:
SVEP (Electronic Publishing in Swedish Universities) November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
SVEP
Aim:
Promote and coordinate the development of electronic publishing,
Funded by BIBSAM
Participants:
Uppsala, Gothenburg, Lund etc.
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The main problem today
Creating awareness
Making university decision makers aware
Making research funders aware
Making researchers aware November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Creating Awareness: National level initiatives
Finland
FinELib - FinOA
Norway
Norwegian Digital Library
Sweden
Association of Swedish Universities & University Colleges (SUHF) Lars Björnshauge November 2003
Roads for Knowledge – the need for a new strategy for universities and their libraries
Report commissioned by the Association of Swedish Universities & University Colleges (SUHF) http://www.suhf.se/pdf/Biblioteksrapporten.pdf
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Recommendations
The need for changes in the current system for scholarly publishing
The need to establish conditions for creating professional, publishing services within universities and university colleges (BOAI 2)
As of today the libraries are the natural choice for the organisation of such activities due to the fact that the necessary competence is at hand Lars Björnshauge November 2003
Recommendations
SUHF will
Establish a task force to see to that new intellectual property rights agreements will be drafted and implemented, securing that researchers can publish, disseminate and archive publications on university servers (institutional repositories)
Investigate the long term effects of the current system of scholarly publishing Lars Björnshauge November 2003
Recommendations
SUHF will
Investigate and evaluate current research assessment and merit systems and
Highlight current projects and activities promoting alternative approaches based on university publishing and other initiatives for open access publishing – promote open access (BOAI 1 & 2) Lars Björnshauge November 2003
Creating Awareness National level initiatives
SUHF
task force decided
intellectual property rights agreements
initiate discussions with research councils/funders November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Creating Awareness: Networking/ pooling resources
Swedish Resource Center for Scholarly Communication
Operated by Lund University Libraries
A cooperative network
Seminars
Rich Web-site – www.sciecom.org/ Lars Björnshauge November 2003
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Creating awareness II
1 st Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund/Copenhagen, Oct. 2002
2 nd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund, April 2004 – http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2004 Lars Björnshauge November 2003
Proposed actions – who and how??
The Key Players:
(Nordic level agencies)
Government agencies Universities, Research institutions (individual and associations)
Research councils/funders
(Researchers) Libraries And what they should do!
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Proposed actions: Government agencies
Policy vis-a-vis universities, research institutions etc.
mandatory open access publishing of research based on government funded research
Communicating the issues to the Nordic Council and national research councils & funders
Initiate and fund projects a la DARE, FAIR etc.
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Proposed actions: Universities/research institutions
Associations:
Recommendations to membership institutions – a la SUHF
Intellectual property rights agreements
Support awareness initiatives
Institutions:
Support BOAI 1 & 2 activities
Acknowledge OA in hiring & promotion procedures
Support awareness initiatives November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Proposed actions: Research councils/funders
Declare support to Open Access – a la the Berlin Declaration
As a matter of policy
Encourage self-archiving
Encourage OA publishing by including publishing costs in funding/grants
Acknowledge OA in evaluation/assessment November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Proposed actions: Libraries
Host and operate institutional/subject repositories
Support awareness initiatives
Focus on promoting OA material fully integrated in their services Lars Björnshauge November 2003
Lund University
LU:research (Institutional Repository)
From project to university wide solution
Add-ons: Virtual Medical Journal
Intellectual property rights agreements:
Lund University:
http://www.lu.se/jurenh/INTERN/avtal.html
Retaining right to self-archiving
Taken up by the Danish Committee for Proctection of Scholarly Works November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Integration of OA-material in Library & Information Services
The problem:
conventional toll-access material flows seamlessly into library services supported by publishers, subscriptionsagents, aggregators etc.
Our solution: The Electronic Library Information Navigator - ELIN@
The one-stop-shop integrating toll-access material, open access journals and repositories
In operation at 10 Swedish Universities and recently at Ghent University November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
So: Is there room for a Co-ordinated Nordic Approach?
Sure!!
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The Nordic Council
NORIA (nordic Research and Innovation Area)
Whitebook about building the Nordic countries into a leading region for research and innovation
Gustav Björkstrand
October 2003 November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Nordic cooperation??
The Nordic Council:
Reconstruction of the Nordic cooperation in research!?
Time for an intervention/action when it comes to Open Access to research??
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Nordic coopertaion: Creating Awareness
Networking/ pooling resources
Transform existing network – SRVK – into a Nordic Network
Funding:
Nordic Council
Associations
Universities/Research Institutions
Libraries Lars Björnshauge November 2003
So: There is room for a Co-ordinated Nordic Approach?
Let ´s go for it!!
Thanks for your attention!
Lars Björnshauge November 2003