Last week the General Assembly of OpenAIRE voted for new members of the Executive Board. One of the newly appointed members is Anna Lundén, Head of the Department of research collaboration at the National Library.
New transformative agreement between the Bibsam Consortium and BMJ.
A new transformative agreement has been signed between Emerald Publishing and participating organisations within the Bibsam Consortium.
At the turn of the year, the Bibsam Consortium´s previous agreement with IOP Publishing ended and was replaced by a new transformative three-year agreement with the publisher.
The Bibsam Consortium and the academic publisher Brill have signed a new transformative agreement for 2021–2023.
How were Swedish researchers affected by the cancellation of Elsevier? More than 1 000 researchers responded in depth to this in a survey conducted as a part of the evaluation of the cancellation. A recently published article analyses the result of these responses.
The National Library has conducted an inquiry into the needs for financial and technical support in order to enable Swedish scholarly journals to transition into open access. The report is now available in English.
Scholarly journals in Sweden need to become more visible, and make research accessible for all. This is why the National Library of Sweden is developing a national platform for scholarly Open Access journals.
