Lund University LibrariesHead Office
Is there room for a
Co-ordinated Nordic Approach?
Seminar on Open Online Access to Research,
Oslo November 11th, 2003
Lars Björnshauge, Lund University Libraries
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
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 Awareness4. Promoting open access
material in library & information services
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
OAI-compliant Institutional repositories in Nordic
CountriesFinland:
VTT Publications Register
Norway:University of Oslo, Digital Library
Sweden:Academic Archive On-Line (DiVA)Epsilon Publishing System LU:research
OAIsterOAIster
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Consolidation services
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – http://www.doaj.org/A collection of peer reviewed
open access journalsAll disciplines – all languagesOne interface
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
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
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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
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
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 BIBSAMParticipants:
Uppsala, Gothenburg, Lund etc.
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
The main problem today
Creating awarenessMaking university decision
makers awareMaking research funders awareMaking researchers aware
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Creating Awareness:National level initiatives
FinlandFinELib - FinOA
NorwayNorwegian Digital Library
SwedenAssociation of Swedish
Universities & University Colleges (SUHF)
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
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
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
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
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
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
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Recommendations
SUHF willInvestigate and evaluate current research
assessment and merit systems andHighlight current projects and activities
promoting alternative approaches based on university publishing and other initiatives for open access publishing – promote open access (BOAI 1 & 2)
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Creating AwarenessNational level initiatives
SUHFtask force decidedintellectual property rights
agreementsinitiate discussions with research
councils/funders
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Creating Awareness:Networking/ pooling
resources Swedish Resource Center for
Scholarly CommunicationOperated by Lund University
LibrariesA cooperative networkSeminarsRich Web-site – www.sciecom.org
/
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November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Creating awareness II
1st Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund/Copenhagen, Oct. 2002
2nd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund, April 2004 – http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2004
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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!
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
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.
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Proposed actions: Universities/research
institutionsAssociations:
Recommendations to membership institutions – a la SUHF
Intellectual property rights agreementsSupport awareness initiatives
Institutions:Support BOAI 1 & 2 activitiesAcknowledge OA in hiring & promotion
proceduresSupport awareness initiatives
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Proposed actions:Research councils/funders
Declare support to Open Access – a la the Berlin Declaration
As a matter of policy Encourage self-archivingEncourage OA publishing by
including publishing costs in funding/grants
Acknowledge OA in evaluation/assessment
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Proposed actions: Libraries
Host and operate institutional/subject repositories
Support awareness initiativesFocus on promoting OA
material fully integrated in their services
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Lund UniversityLU:research (Institutional
Repository)From project to university wide solutionAdd-ons: Virtual Medical Journal
Intellectual property rights agreements:Lund University:
http://www.lu.se/jurenh/INTERN/avtal.htmlRetaining right to self-archivingTaken 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!!
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
The Nordic Council
NORIA (nordic Research and Innovation Area)
Whitebook about building the Nordic countries into a leading region for research and innovation
Gustav BjörkstrandOctober 2003
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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??
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
Nordic coopertaion:Creating Awareness
Networking/ pooling resourcesTransform existing network –
SRVK – into a Nordic NetworkFunding:
Nordic CouncilAssociationsUniversities/Research InstitutionsLibraries
November 2003 Lars Björnshauge
So: There is room for a Co-ordinated Nordic
Approach?
Let´s go for it!!Thanks for your attention!