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The role of the national library as a catalyst for an Open Access agenda
Submission to IFLA session “National libraries promoting open access to knowledge”
Jan Hagerlid, coordinator of the OpenAccess.se programme www.openaccess.se
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National Library of Sweden
• I will hereafter refer to the National Library of Sweden as KB, short for its name in Swedish, Kungliga Biblioteket • • Legal deposit of print material since 1661 Also collects Swedish recorded sound and moving images since 2009 • Since 1990 coordinating research libraries • Maintains nationwide search service LIBRIS • Organizes national consortium for licenses for e-resources www.openaccess.se
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First steps
• SVEP project coordinating e-publishing within higher education • Open Access policy discussion in Sweden • Signatories to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access – The Swedish Qassociation for Higher Education – The Swedish Research Council – KB – The Royal Academy of Sciences …..
• Support for ScieCom and DOAJ www.openaccess.se
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Forming the OpenAccess.se programme
• Integrate development of repositories and awareness raising on Open Acce ss • A platform for practical cooperation between research libraries and the main academic stakeholders www.openaccess.se
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Steering committe
• The National Library of Sweden • Swedish university libraries, • The Association of Swedish Higher Education (SUHF), • The Swedish Research Council, • The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences • The Swedish Knowledge Foundation, www.openaccess.se
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Objectives • Strategic goal
To promote maximum accessibility and visibility of works produced by researchers, teachers and students at Swedish universities and university colleges
• Priority number one
to create a critical mass of open content - foremost of self-archived scientific and scholarly articles – in OA archives www.openaccess.se
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Priorities • Actual focus
– To promote growth of the volume and diversity of material – To promote access to and use of content in academic repositories and Open Access journals – To support publishing in Open Access journals and the migration of Swedish scientific journals to an Open Access model www.openaccess.se
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Core projects
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Unified access to and reporting of Swedish scientific publications (SwePub)
• Created the SwePub search service, where LIBRIS – Harvests the publication databases of universities for metadata and openly available electronic fulltext www.openaccess.se
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Core projects
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Parallell Publishing of Scientific Articles
Trials and interviews with researchers •
Creating OA Information for Researchers
Website for instructional material about OA Seminars targeted to researchers within universities •
Open Access to Nobel Prize awarded works – a pilot
Workflow and tools www.openaccess.se
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Core projects
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Open Educational Resources in open digital archives
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Aiding scientific journals towards Open Access publishing
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Best practices guide to Open Access publishing
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Open Access policy issues
• Gradually stronger consensus • The legitimacy of OA mandates • Funders and universities www.openaccess.se
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Stakeholder involvement
• SUHF support for SwePub • Swedish Research Council – Open Access mandate in 2009 • The Royal Academy of the Sciences – Involved in setting up programme – Opened the way for Nobel Prize project www.openaccess.se
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Outcome of the programme
• Open Access repositories at all universities and major university colleges • Content growing quickly, larger share of scientific articles • Growing number of Swedish Open Access journals www.openaccess.se
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Open Access Mandates
• The Swedish Research Council, 2009 • Formas (sustainable development), 2009 • Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Social Science and Humanities ), 2010 • Chalmers University of Technology www.openaccess.se
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International evaluation
• An evaluation by Leo Waaijers, the Netherlands, and Hanne Marie Kvaerndrup, Denmark, in 2009, concluded •
The OA programme has been a catalyst for co-operation, networking and activities on a national scale. … recommendations for a future OA programme based on a strategic framework with clearer goals, bigger projects and broader commitment… The KB should take the role as coordinator
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New phase
• Information to researchers Higher priority in response to mandates Refocus website EU project OpenAIRE • Coordination of policy High priority. Ministry of Education and of research has promised to take an initiative • Continuing development of infrastructure and user services www.openaccess.se
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The role of the national library
• Placed directly under government • Unbiased, offers an arena for fruitful cooperation • Advance development projects into sustainable services • Create an organization for real stakeholder influence www.openaccess.se
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Open Access policy for KB
• Need for a coherent OA policy that covers several aspects of the operations of the national library: • • • • • • • Support for Open Access publishing within universities Promoting support for OA publishing in licensing deals coordinated by NL Sweden Make non copyright protected digitized material openly accessible Staff required to make their articles available in Open Access mode Publications from the library as a rule Open Access Use of Creative Commons licenses whenever applicable Metadata created or aggregated by the library freely available to use and reuse www.openaccess.se
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Open Access and national libraries
Open Access essentially concerns the accessibility of national research publications and thus fits very well with other tasks of national libraries in a digital environment, like running national bibliographic services, handling legal e-deposit and providing long-term access to digital documents www.openaccess.se
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