Sweden is poised to act as an international hub for research on banned literature – a place where researchers can expect reliable information about bans and censorship around the world. This in a statement issued by the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket, KB) in a new report to the government proposing augmented resources for a number of already successful initiatives.
As part of its mission to coordinate, monitor, and promote collaboration in the national work for open access to scholarly publications, the National Library of Sweden ( Kungliga biblioteket , KB) has now published its annual report on the development of open access in Sweden.
The National Library of Sweden ( Kungliga biblioteket , KB) compiles Swedish higher education institutions’ expenditures for scholarly publishing – that is, costs for subscriptions, publishing research articles, and purchasing scholarly literature. For 2024, these costs amounted to SEK 806 million, an increase of just under 1 per cent from the previous year.
Celebrating three decades of publishing open access research within information-related disciplines, the journal Information Research was recently launched on the national open access platform Publicera.
In conjunction with the international Open Access Week, aimed at raising awareness globally of the value of open access to research results, we took the opportunity to talk to some of the editors whose academic journals are hosted on the open platform Publicera.
Open Access Week is an annual international event aimed at raising awareness of the value of open access to research results. This year, the week runs from 21–27 October, and the theme is "Community over Commercialization".
The National Library of Sweden ( Kungliga biblioteket , KB) has published an English version of the national guidelines on open science, released earlier this year.
As part of its mandate to coordinate, monitor, and promote collaboration in the work for open access to scholarly publications, the National Library of Sweden ( Kungliga biblioteket , KB) today publishes a report highlighting the development of open access in Sweden.
