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

Jan Hagerlid — 2011-06-10T14:31:00+02:00

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

Open Access policy at Malmö University

Jan Hagerlid — 2011-02-16T09:20:00+01:00

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 Publishing (MUEP).

Requests for IFLA to clarify its position on Open Access

Jan Hagerlid — 2010-08-19T16:01:00+02:00

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

Open Access policy for the National Library of Sweden

Jan Hagerlid — 2010-06-29T10:49:00+02:00

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 Library has begun.

Open Access to Nobel Prize awarded work

Jan Hagerlid — 2010-05-24T11:01:00+02:00

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

Successful Nordic cooperation in developing OA Journals

Jan Hagerlid — 2010-04-21T09:25:00+02:00

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

Open Access and the Changing Role of Libraries

Jan Hagerlid — 2010-03-31T11:13:00+02:00

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.

Support for repositories in parallell publishing

Jan Hagerlid — 2010-03-09T13:52:00+01:00

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

Open Access policy at Chalmers

Jan Hagerlid — 2010-03-02T16:47:00+01:00

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.

Projects in Open Educational Resources and Retro digitalization

Jan Hagerlid — 2010-03-02T16:38:00+01:00

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

Open Access Information for Researchers

Jan Hagerlid — 2010-02-23T11:23:00+01:00

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

OpenAIRE supports the EC Open Access pilot

Jan Hagerlid — 2010-02-22T09:19:00+01:00

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 work to implement Open Access on a pan-European scale.

New Online Guide to OA Journals Publishing

Jan Hagerlid — 2010-02-08T11:32:00+01:00

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

NOAP workshop on OA journal production

Jan Hagerlid — 2010-01-20T13:30:00+01:00

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 faculty conceptualizing and designing a journal.

OA mandate for Formas funded research

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-12-14T11:04:00+01:00

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

International evaluation OpenAccess.se

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-12-11T11:20:00+01:00

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.

Swedish Research Council requires free access to research results

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-10-08T15:15:00+02:00

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 scientifically assessed texts in journals and conference reports, starting from the Research Council’s advertisements from the turn of the year 2010. Read more

Complex digital objects in open archives

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-09-04T14:46:00+02:00

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 registration interface and attractive web display for these complex digital objects? These issues are explored in a new project. Read more

Open Educational Resources in institutional repositories?

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-07-01T14:00:00+02:00

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

New project on measuring usage data from open archives

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-06-05T09:00:00+02:00

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.

New projects focussing on Open Access in Humanities

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-05-25T13:33:00+02:00

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 publishing. The other project aims at increasing the availability of research data in Humanities and Arts. Read more about the projects.

Visual research objects of art and design in OA repositories

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-04-24T11:03:00+02:00

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 project studied one complex design object, in the research field smart textiles, originated from three researchers at the School of Textiles at the University of Borås. BADA, Borås Academic Digital Archive (DSpace) was used for...

Long-term preservation of OA Journals

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-04-06T15:28:00+02:00

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 Libraries and the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB). The Swedish Library Association is generously acting as sponsor. Being one of the sponsors of DOAJ the OpenAccess. se supports this initiative....

Conference for OA Scholarly Publishers in Sweden

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-04-03T15:01:00+02:00

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 will be held at the Scandic Star hotel in Lund, Sweden from the 14th to the 16th of September. For more information

Structuring of information concerning author rights

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-03-10T12:09:00+01:00

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 posted on a public website, in particular in an institutional repository or archive. The challenge is to make this information available in structured form so that it can be applied and used in the automatic operations of, for...

Citation patterns in OA journals

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-02-25T10:49:00+01:00

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 that is published in the two forms of scholarly publications? The results are not unambiguous. Read the final report.

Creating OA Information for researchers - Status report

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-01-26T13:55:00+01:00

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 Sundsvall and there is more to come. There is obviously a growing interest among researchers for Open Access. The information site - Open Access information - has been continually expanded and updated. This especially goes...

Status reports from OA projects

Jan Hagerlid — 2009-01-09T09:15:00+01:00

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 Journals Publishing Read the reports

Open Access and industrial researchers

Inger Klondiras — 2009-01-08T09:30:00+01:00

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

Open Access to Scientific Works of Nobel Prize Winners

Håkan Färje — 2008-07-01T11:30:00+02:00

Key publications related to the most important scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century may become openly accessible online. The discoveries of penicillin, X-rays, insulin, radioactivity, quarks, and quantum mechanics are some of the most important scientific advances to have had impact on humankind. Opportunities are now being studied to provide open access to a wide selection of the...

OpenAccess.se at Crimea 2008

Jan Hagerlid — 2008-06-25T12:25:00+02:00

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 Science, Culture, Education, and Business, Crimea 2008, an international conference attracting participation especially from Russia and post-Soviet countries. The title was “OpenAccess. se – Experiences from Sweden in...

New projects in OpenAccess.se

Jan Hagerlid — 2008-01-14T17:12:00+01:00

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

The National Library signs CERN-initiative

Jan Hagerlid — 2007-11-15T17:09:00+01:00

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

Open Access and Nordic scientific journals

Håkan Färje — 2007-11-15T17:06:00+01:00

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

Call for proposals for 2008-2009

Jan Hagerlid — 2007-09-18T17:03:00+02:00

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

Support from The Knowledge Foundation

Jan Hagerlid — 2007-09-18T17:00:00+02:00

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.

A portal for doctoral e-Theses in Europe

Jan Hagerlid — 2007-08-10T16:55:00+02:00

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

Unified access to Swedish scientific publications

Jan Hagerlid — 2007-06-06T10:00:00+02:00

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.

Systems: Opening up the process

Jan Hagerlid — 2006-07-03T16:30:00+02:00

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