https://www.kb.se/ https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2025-06-18-annual-report-on-open-access-in-sweden.html 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. Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:58:30 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2025-06-02-costs-of-scholarly-publishing-2024.html 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. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 06:07:31 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2025-02-26-information-research---a-pioneering-open-access-journal-now-hosted-on-publicera.html 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. Wed, 26 Feb 2025 07:44:47 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2024-10-21-editors-on-publicera-accessible-and-user-friendly.html 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. Mon, 21 Oct 2024 06:23:10 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2024-10-18-the-national-library-highlights-open-access-during-oa-week-2024.html 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". Fri, 18 Oct 2024 06:42:25 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2024-08-27-national-guidelines-for-open-science---now-in-english.html The National Library of Sweden ( Kungliga biblioteket , KB) has published an English version of the national guidelines on open science, released earlier this year. Tue, 27 Aug 2024 07:51:46 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2024-06-28-annual-report-on-open-access-in-sweden.html 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. Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:42:42 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2024-06-05-new-publishing-agreement-with-copernicus-for-investment-in-open-access.html Researchers from all of the Bibsam Consortium’s participating institutions can publish in journals from Copernicus, without charges for authors or institutions. Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:30:00 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2024-06-05-new-publishing-agreement-with-elife-for-investment-in-open-access.html Researchers from all of the Bibsam Consortium’s participating institutions can publish in eLife without charges for authors or institutions. Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:30:00 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2024-06-05-new-publishing-agreement-with-jmir-publications-for-investment-in-open-access.html Researchers from all of the Bibsam Consortium’s participating institutions can publish in journals from JMIR Publications, without charges for authors or institutions. Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:30:00 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2024-05-31-costs-of-scholarly-publishing-2023.html The National Library of Sweden compiles Swedish higher education institutions’ expenditures for scholarly publishing, which includes costs for subscriptions, publishing research articles, and purchasing scholarly literature. For 2023, these expenses amounted to SEK 799 million, which represents an increase of 8.2 per cent from the previous year. Fri, 31 May 2024 06:27:42 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2024-02-26-the-bibsam-consortiums-new-action-plan.html Based on the recommendation of the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) regarding charting Sweden's path beyond the transformative agreements and the national guidelines for open science, the Bibsam Consortium Steering Committee has adopted a new action plan. Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:42:56 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2024-01-15-national-guidelines-for-promoting-open-science-in-sweden.html On behalf of the Swedish government, the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket, KB) has developed national guidelines for open science. The guidelines are intended to provide support and guidance to actors in Sweden who have an important role to play in the transition to open science. Mon, 15 Jan 2024 07:26:30 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2023-12-21-new-publishing-agreement-with-plos-for-investment-in-open-access.html Researchers from all of the Bibsam Consortium’s participating institutions will be able to publish in all journals from PLOS, without charges for authors or institutions. Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:01:38 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2023-12-21-new-publishing-agreement-with-frontiers-for-investment-in-open-access.html Researchers from all of the Bibsam Consortium’s participating institutions will be able to publish in all journals from Frontiers, without charges for authors or institutions. Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:01:17 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2023-12-13-reports-on-public-engagement-in-science-and-open-educational-resources-now-published-in-english.html The National Library of Sweden ( Kungliga biblioteket , KB) has published English versions of its reports on public engagement in science and Open Educational Resources. Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:00:00 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2023-11-13-new-publishing-agreement-with-mjs-publishing-for-investment-in-open-access.html Researchers from all of the Bibsam Consortium’s participating institutions will be able to publish in all journals from MJS Publishing, without charges for authors or institutions. Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:00:52 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2023-11-06-topic-modeling-with-bertopic.html Welcome to a hands-on introduction to topic modeling with BERTopic, presented by KBLab on December 6th. Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:38:30 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2023-10-25-funders-in-joint-open-access-initiative.html The research funders Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas, and Vinnova have made a strategic decision on a funding model to support publication with publishers that exclusively publish fully open access journals. Wed, 25 Oct 2023 07:17:34 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2023-06-30-annual-report-on-open-access-in-sweden.html As part of the government assignment to coordinate, monitor and promote cooperation in the work on open access to scholarly publications, the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket, KB) today publishes a report that highlights the development of open access in Sweden. Fri, 30 Jun 2023 09:22:45 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2023-05-31-costs-of-scholary-publishing-2022.html The National Library monitors Swedish higher education institutions’ expenditures for scholarly literature and open access publishing in Sweden. For 2022, expenses amounted to SEK 738 million, which is an increase of 3.7% from the previous year. Wed, 31 May 2023 08:57:08 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2023-03-20-open-science-conference-16-17-may-2023.html In May, Sweden will organise "Open Science – from Policy to Practice", a conference highlighting different perspectives of shaping, implementing and embedding Open Science in and beyond the European Union. Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:31:26 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2023-01-23-the-national-library-of-sweden-enters-new-agreement-with-oa-switchboard.html null Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:00:00 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2022-06-21-the-national-library-has-been-tasked-with-developing-national-guidelines-for-open-science.html The Swedish government has commissioned the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket) to develop national guidelines for open science. This assignment includes collaborating with the Swedish Research Council, universities and university colleges as well as other concerned organisations. A report on the assignment will be submitted to the government on 15 September 2023. Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:15:21 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2021-07-14-national-library-of-sweden-represented-in-openaire-executive-board.html 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. Wed, 14 Jul 2021 09:36:44 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2021-04-07-new-transformative-agreement-between-the-bibsam-consortium-and-bmj.html New transformative agreement between the Bibsam Consortium and BMJ. Wed, 07 Apr 2021 08:17:07 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2021-03-22-new-transformative-bibsam-agreement-signed-with-emerald-publishing.html A new transformative agreement has been signed between Emerald Publishing and participating organisations within the Bibsam Consortium. Mon, 22 Mar 2021 07:11:28 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2021-02-24-increased-open-access-publishing-with-new-iop-publishing-agreement.html 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. Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:14:37 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2021-01-25-new-transformative-agreement-between-the-bibsam-consortium-and-brill.html The Bibsam Consortium and the academic publisher Brill have signed a new transformative agreement for 2021–2023. Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:42:42 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2020-11-19-swedish-researchers-response-to-the-cancellation-of-the-big-deal-with-elsevier.html 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. Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:21:56 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2020-10-28-financial-and-technical-support-for-open-access-scholarly-journals.html 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. Wed, 28 Oct 2020 08:22:02 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2020-04-30-swedish-open-access-journals-on-joint-platform.html 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. Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:43:36 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2020-04-07-beyond-transformative-agreements.html The Swedish Bibsam Consortium aims to switch from read-and-publish agreements to pure publish deals after 2024. Tue, 07 Apr 2020 06:26:42 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2020-04-02-new-transformative-bibsam-agreements-in-the-esac-registry.html The Bibsam consortium has signed several new transformative agreements starting in January 2020, which have now been entered into the ESAC registry. Thu, 02 Apr 2020 11:24:37 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2020-03-26-publishers-are-urged-to-make-content-open-access-on-account-of-the-corona-virus.html Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Chair of the Bibsam consortium, has now signed a statement where publishers are requested to make content accessible and available. Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:23:41 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2020-02-10-evaluation-of-cancellation-of-journal-agreement-with-elsevier-2018.html For 17 months, the Bibsam Consortium did not have an agreement with the world’s largest scholarly publisher, Elsevier. There is now a summary of the consequences for the consortium, the concerned organizations and their researchers. Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:49:38 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2020-01-15-new-transformative-agreement-between-the-bibsam-consortium-and-spie.html The Bibsam Consortium and SPIE – the international society for optics and photonics are signing a new Read & Publish agreement for 2020-2022. Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:16:46 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2019-12-19-new-report-on-internal-cost-reallocation-models-within-the-bibsam-consortium.html Robert van der Vooren conducted a study commissioned by the National Library of Sweden about new ways of distributing publisher contract costs to Bibsam Consortium participants. The study is intended to be a basis when the Bibsam Consortium makes cost distribution future proof for full open access publishing. Thu, 19 Dec 2019 08:10:21 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2019-12-17-new-transformative-agreement-with-wiley-increases-open-access-to-swedish-research.html Bibsam and Wiley has signed a new read & publish agreement. Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:36:11 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2019-11-22-​new-transformative-agreement-with-elsevier-enables-unlimited-open-access-to-swedish-research.html The Bibsam Consortium is signing a Read & Publish agreement with the scientific publisher Elsevier. This means that Swedish researchers will have access to the publisher's 2000 journals once more. In addition, all Swedish research articles will be published open access. Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:24:01 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2019-09-20-new-read--publish-agreement-publicly-available.html On behalf of the Bibsam Consortium, the National Library of Sweden publishes its new transformative Read & Publish agreement with academic publisher Springer Nature. Fri, 20 Sep 2019 05:27:35 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2019-09-16-educational-videos-on-open-access.html The National Library of Sweden has produced a series of educational videos on Open Access. Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:58:21 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2019-07-12-an-update-on-negotiations-between-the-bibsam-consortium-and-wiley.html The Bibsam Consortium and scientific publisher Wiley have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that lays out principles of common ground that will guide the negotiations going forward. Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:11:32 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2019-06-25-​universities-and-funders-share-cost-of-publishing-in-new-agreement.html Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and research funding organisations should share the costs of scholarly publishing. This is one of the National Library of Sweden’s recommendations in aiming towards a system of immediate open access to scholarly publishing. In a new pilot agreement, it becomes reality. The Swedish Research Council, Formas, Forte and Vinnova fund 50 percent of the cost of publishing in Springer Nature’s fully open access journals. Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:02:00 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2019-05-06-update-on-elsevier-negotiations.html A Memorandum of Understanding with a framework of principles on how renewed negotiations can commence has now been signed by both parties and renegotiations have started. Mon, 06 May 2019 09:47:00 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2018-10-09-recommendations-for-the-renegotiations-of-springer-compact-report-4-of-the-evaluation-of-the-swedish-springer-compact-agreement.html Springer Compact was the first Swedish agreement signed with the intent to offset publishing costs with subscription costs. The agreement is a pilot and the Bibsam steering committee commissioned an evaluation group to evaluate its effects throughout the agreement period (2016-07-01 – 2018-12-31). Tue, 09 Oct 2018 12:02:00 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2018-10-09-evaluation-of-the-swedish-springer-compact-agreement-report-4.html Springer contract was the first Swedish agreement signed with the intent to offset publishing costs with subscription costs. The agreement is a limited pilot and the Bibsam steering committee commissioned an evaluation of its effects. Tue, 09 Oct 2018 07:54:00 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2018-06-01-sweden-commits-to-open-science-with-new-open-access-publishing-deal-with-frontiers.html Swedish researchers can now publish their articles in Frontiers’ Open Access journals through a simplified process with discounted fees, thanks to a national agreement announced today between Frontiers and the National Library of Sweden (NLS), on behalf of the organisations participating in the Bibsam Consortium. Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:27:00 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2018-05-16-sweden-stands-up-for-open-access---cancels-agreement-with-elsevier.html Large science publisher Elsevier does not meet the requirements of Swedish universities and research institutes in terms of open access. Wed, 16 May 2018 08:28:00 GMT https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2018-01-11-open-access-to-scientific-publications-new-assignments.html As of 2018, the National Library of Sweden (NLS) has received two new assignments regarding open access to publicly funded scientific publications from the Swedish Government. Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:07:00 GMT