OA News

2011-06-10

Statement about Elsevier's new policy concerning authors’ rights to self-archive articles

The Steering committee of the OpenAccess. se approved a statement at its meeting on May 23, 2011, about Elsevier's new policy.

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2011-02-16

Open Access policy at Malmö University

Research staff and postgraduate students at Malmö University must deposit a copy of their research publications in the university's open archive, Malmö University Electronic ...

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2010-08-19

Requests for IFLA to clarify its position on Open Access

IFLA is called to take an explicit and clear stand on Open Access and develop a strategy for action.

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2010-06-29

Open Access policy for the National Library of Sweden

The Open Access principles concern several aspects of the operations of the National Library and the process of developing a coherent Open Access policy for the National Libr...

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2010-05-24

Open Access to Nobel Prize awarded work

The pilot project designing a model for providing Open Access to Nobel prize awarded work has now been reported.

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2010-04-21

Successful Nordic cooperation in developing OA Journals

The project Aiding Scientific Journals Towards Open Access Publishing (NOAP) is now finished and has a wealth of interesting results to report.

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2010-03-31

Open Access and the Changing Role of Libraries

Open Access has a profound effect on the role of academic libraries. This is the theme of an IFLA Satellite Meeting in Gothenburg on August 9.

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2010-03-09

Support for repositories in parallell publishing

The project Open Access domain models... is reporting from its first phase.

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2010-03-02

Open Access policy at Chalmers

Chalmers is the first university in Sweden with a strict Open Access policy. All publications from Chalmers are to be made available with Open Access.

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2010-03-02

Projects in Open Educational Resources and Retro digitalization

Two new projects with a focus on supporting usage and creation of open educational resources at the universities have started.

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2010-02-23

Open Access Information for Researchers

A cooperative project on creating OA information for researchers has been reported.

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2010-02-22

OpenAIRE supports the EC Open Access pilot

OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), a three-years project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission, has now taken up its ...

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2010-02-08

New Online Guide to OA Journals Publishing

Co-Action Publishing and Lund University Libraries Main Office are pleased to announce the launch of The online guide to Open Access Journals Publishing!

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2010-01-20

NOAP workshop on OA journal production

Welcome to attend this practical workshop on how to create and manage your open access journal! Lectures are combined with small group discussions under the direction of the ...

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2009-12-14

OA mandate for Formas funded research

The Swedish Research Council Formas announces an Open Access mandate for research financed by Formas from 2010.

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2009-12-11

International evaluation OpenAccess.se

The evaluation highlights the impact of the OpenAccess. se programme on Swedish OA developments and the important role of National Library of Sweden as a coordinating body.

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2009-10-08

Swedish Research Council requires free access to research results

Researchers will have to guarantee that publications are available according to Open Access within a maximum period of six months. This requirement will apply so far only to ...

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2009-09-04

Complex digital objects in open archives

How are repositories and national services going to integrate the very complex works produced within higher education and research in Arts?  What would be a user-friendly re...

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2009-07-01

Open Educational Resources in institutional repositories?

To which extent are teachers at Swedish universities using and producing OER today? Can institutional repositories also accommodate the locally produced OER?

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2009-06-05

New project on measuring usage data from open archives

The aim of this project is to introduce the research about usage data from open archives. A workshop with international participation will be held in Autumn 2010.

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2009-05-25

New projects focussing on Open Access in Humanities

Two new projects will start within the programme. One of the projects is exploring opportunities for Nordic scholars within the humanities and legal science in Open Access pu...

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2009-04-24

Visual research objects of art and design in OA repositories

The aim of this pilot project was to develop a model of how to represent visual research objects within the field of art and design in institutional repositories. The proje...

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2009-04-06

Long-term preservation of OA Journals

To secure long-term preservation of open access journals was announced today the start of a cooperation between The Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) of Lund University...

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2009-04-03

Conference for OA Scholarly Publishers in Sweden

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association and the DOAJ/Lund University Libraries are pleased to announce the 1st Conference for Open Access Scholarly Publishers, which...

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2009-03-10

Structuring of information concerning author rights

Status reports are published from a project that concerns the management of IPR information that determines whether, when and how a given research article can legally be post...

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2009-02-25

Citation patterns in OA journals

Do OA and non-OA journals in the same research fields cite the same literature? To what extent does this reflect whether it is the same kind (and thus comparable) research th...

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2009-01-26

Creating OA Information for researchers - Status report

The project Creating OA Information for Researchers has reported from its first year. Successful seminars for researchers with a large attendance have been held in Malmö and ...

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2009-01-09

Status reports from OA projects

New status reports in English are now available from the projects Aiding Scientific Journals Towards Open Access Publishing, and Best Practices Guide to Open Access Jou...

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2009-01-08

Open Access and industrial researchers

How is Open Access viewed within private R&D companies?

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2008-07-01

Open Access to Scientific Works of Nobel Prize Winners

Key publications related to the most important scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century may become openly accessible online. The discoveries of penicillin, X-rays, insul...

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2008-06-25

OpenAccess.se at Crimea 2008

A presentation of OpenAccess. se was given by Jan Hagerlid at the Fifteenth Jubilee International Conference Libraries and Information Resources in the Modern World of Scienc...

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2008-01-14

New projects in OpenAccess.se

The Autumn 2007 Call for Proposals in the OpenAccess. se programme was met with considerable interest.

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2007-11-15

The National Library signs CERN-initiative

The National Library of Sweden signed the Expression of Interest to join SCOAP3.

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2007-11-15

Open Access and Nordic scientific journals

A large Nordic project will support the the transition of scientific or learned nordic journals to Open Access mode.

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2007-09-18

Call for proposals for 2008-2009

The Departement for National Cooperation of the National Library of Sweden announces a call for proposals within the development program OpenAccess. se.

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2007-09-18

Support from The Knowledge Foundation

The Knowledge Foundation will contribute 2.5 million Swedish kronor (approx. 270 000 Euro or $374 000) to the OpenAccess. se development programme during 2008 and 2009.

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2007-08-10

A portal for doctoral e-Theses in Europe

The European e-Theses demonstrator portal has proved that it is possible to link local collections of doctoral theses on an international scale.

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2007-06-06

Unified access to Swedish scientific publications

At the moment it is not possible, but soon you will be able to access the total Swedish research publishing output at a single place.

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2006-07-03

Systems: Opening up the process

An article on new models for peer-review by Erik Sandewall.

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