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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)


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


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


Consolidation services

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – http://www.doaj.org/A collection of peer reviewed

open access journalsAll disciplines – all languagesOne interface


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)


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


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


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


In the pipeline

Self-Archiving/Institutional Repositories/Subject Repositories (BOAI 2)


In the pipeline:Self-Archiving/Institutional

Repositories (BOAI 2)Denmark:

Denmarks Electronic Research Library (DEF) – working group

Sweden:SVEP (Electronic Publishing in

Swedish Universities)


SVEP

Aim:Promote and coordinate the

development of electronic publishing,

Funded by BIBSAMParticipants:

Uppsala, Gothenburg, Lund etc.


The main problem today

Creating awarenessMaking university decision

makers awareMaking research funders awareMaking researchers aware


Creating Awareness:National level initiatives

FinlandFinELib - FinOA

NorwayNorwegian Digital Library

SwedenAssociation of Swedish

Universities & University Colleges (SUHF)


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


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


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


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)


Creating AwarenessNational level initiatives

SUHFtask force decidedintellectual property rights

agreementsinitiate discussions with research

councils/funders


Creating Awareness:Networking/ pooling

resources Swedish Resource Center for

Scholarly CommunicationOperated by Lund University

LibrariesA cooperative networkSeminarsRich Web-site – www.sciecom.org

/


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


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!


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.


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


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


Proposed actions: Libraries

Host and operate institutional/subject repositories

Support awareness initiativesFocus on promoting OA

material fully integrated in their services


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


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


So: Is there room for a Co-ordinated Nordic

Approach?

Sure!!


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


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??


Nordic coopertaion:Creating Awareness

Networking/ pooling resourcesTransform existing network –

SRVK – into a Nordic NetworkFunding:

Nordic CouncilAssociationsUniversities/Research InstitutionsLibraries


So: There is room for a Co-ordinated Nordic

Approach?

Let´s go for it!!Thanks for your attention!

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