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Lund University Libraries Head Office

Lund University Libraries Head Office. Is there room for a Co-ordinated Nordic Approach? Seminar on Open Online Access to Research, Oslo November 11 th , 2003 Lars Björnshauge, Lund University Libraries. The two roads towards Open Access.

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  1. Lund University LibrariesHead Office Is there room for a Co-ordinated Nordic Approach? Seminar on Open Online Access to Research, Oslo November 11th, 2003 Lars Björnshauge, Lund University Libraries

  2. The two roads towards Open Access • Supporting Open Access via changing the business model – BOAI 1 – The Golden Road (Harnad) • Supporting Open Access via Self-Archiving –Institutional Repositories – Subject Repositories – BOAI 2 – The Green/Blue Road (Harnad) Lars Björnshauge

  3. In the Nordic Countries – in brief • Open Access Journals (BOAI 1) • Self-Archiving (BOAI 2) • Creating Awareness • Promoting open access material in library & information services Lars Björnshauge

  4. OAI-compliant Institutional repositories in Nordic Countries OAIster • Finland: • VTT Publications Register • Norway: • University of Oslo, Digital Library • Sweden: • Academic Archive On-Line (DiVA) • Epsilon Publishing System • LU:research Lars Björnshauge

  5. Consolidation services • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – http://www.doaj.org/ • A collection of peer reviewed open access journals • All disciplines – all languages • One interface Lars Björnshauge

  6. Lars Björnshauge

  7. In the pipeline • Open Access Journals (BOAI 1) • Nordic language journals in humanities & social sciences - Nordic board for periodicals in the humanities and social sciences(NOP-HS) Lars Björnshauge

  8. Today: Subsidizing Nordic Language Journals • Current set-up: • Traditional publishing based on subscription fees subsidized by the Nordic board for periodicals in the humanities and social sciences(NOP-HS) • Problem: • Limited national, Nordic & international visibility Lars Björnshauge

  9. Tomorrow: Promoting Nordic Research (via OA-journals) • Scholarly Publishing in the future – a joint Nordic Project. • Report prepared for the Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. June 2003 Lars Björnshauge

  10. Proposed outcome (among other things): • Among other things - Transforming existing subscription based journals into open access journals • Application for funding: • Danish Library Authority, • NIFU (Norway) • Hanken (Finland) • Lund Univ. Libraries (Sweden) • Approved by NOP-HS Nov. 2003 Lars Björnshauge

  11. In the pipeline • Self-Archiving/Institutional Repositories/Subject Repositories (BOAI 2) Lars Björnshauge

  12. In the pipeline:Self-Archiving/Institutional Repositories (BOAI 2) • Denmark: • Denmarks Electronic Research Library (DEF) – working group • Sweden: • SVEP (Electronic Publishing in Swedish Universities) Lars Björnshauge

  13. SVEP • Aim: • Promote and coordinate the development of electronic publishing, • Funded by BIBSAM • Participants: • Uppsala, Gothenburg, Lund etc. Lars Björnshauge

  14. The main problem today • Creating awareness • Making university decision makers aware • Making research funders aware • Making researchers aware Lars Björnshauge

  15. Creating Awareness:National level initiatives • Finland • FinELib - FinOA • Norway • Norwegian Digital Library • Sweden • Association of Swedish Universities & University Colleges (SUHF) Lars Björnshauge

  16. Roads for Knowledge – the need for a new strategy for universities and their libraries Report commissioned by the Association of Swedish Universities & University Colleges (SUHF) - http://www.suhf.se/pdf/Biblioteksrapporten.pdf Lars Björnshauge

  17. Recommendations • The need forchanges in the current system for scholarly publishing • Theneed to establish conditions forcreatingprofessional,publishing serviceswithinuniversities and university colleges (BOAI 2) • As of today the libraries are the natural choice for the organisation of such activities due to the fact that the necessary competence is at hand Lars Björnshauge

  18. Recommendations • SUHF will • Establish a task force to see to that new intellectual property rights agreements will be drafted and implemented, securing that researchers can publish, disseminate and archive publications on university servers (institutional repositories) • Investigate the long term effects of the current system of scholarly publishing Lars Björnshauge

  19. Recommendations • SUHF will • Investigate and evaluate current research assessment and merit systems and • Highlight current projects and activities promoting alternative approaches based on university publishing and other initiatives for open access publishing – promote open access (BOAI 1 & 2) Lars Björnshauge

  20. Creating AwarenessNational level initiatives • SUHF • task force decided • intellectual property rights agreements • initiate discussions with research councils/funders Lars Björnshauge

  21. Creating Awareness:Networking/ pooling resources • Swedish Resource Center for Scholarly Communication • Operated by Lund University Libraries • A cooperative network • Seminars • Rich Web-site – www.sciecom.org/ Lars Björnshauge

  22. Lars Björnshauge

  23. Creating awareness II • 1st Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund/Copenhagen, Oct. 2002 • 2nd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund, April 2004 – http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2004 Lars Björnshauge

  24. Proposed actions – who and how?? The Key Players: • (Nordic level agencies) • Government agencies • Universities, Research institutions (individual and associations) • Research councils/funders • (Researchers) • Libraries And what they should do! Lars Björnshauge

  25. Proposed actions:Government agencies • Policy vis-a-vis universities, research institutions etc. • mandatory open access publishingof research based on governmentfunded research • Communicating the issues to the Nordic Council and national research councils & funders • Initiate and fund projects a la DARE, FAIR etc. Lars Björnshauge

  26. Proposed actions: Universities/research institutions • Associations: • Recommendations to membership institutions – a la SUHF • Intellectual property rights agreements • Support awareness initiatives • Institutions: • Support BOAI 1 & 2 activities • Acknowledge OA in hiring & promotion procedures • Support awareness initiatives Lars Björnshauge

  27. Proposed actions:Research councils/funders • Declare support to Open Access – a la the Berlin Declaration • As a matter of policy • Encourage self-archiving • Encourage OA publishing by including publishing costs in funding/grants • Acknowledge OA in evaluation/assessment Lars Björnshauge

  28. Proposed actions: Libraries • Host and operate institutional/subject repositories • Support awareness initiatives • Focus on promoting OA material fully integrated in their services Lars Björnshauge

  29. Lund University • LU:research (Institutional Repository) • From project to university wide solution • Add-ons: Virtual Medical Journal • Intellectual property rights agreements: • Lund University: • http://www.lu.se/jurenh/INTERN/avtal.html • Retaining right to self-archiving • Taken up by the Danish Committee for Proctection of Scholarly Works Lars Björnshauge

  30. Integration of OA-material in Library & Information Services • The problem: • conventional toll-access material flows seamlessly into library services supported by publishers, subscriptionsagents, aggregators etc. • Our solution: The Electronic Library Information Navigator - ELIN@ • The one-stop-shop integrating toll-access material, open access journals and repositories • In operation at 10 Swedish Universities and recently at Ghent University Lars Björnshauge

  31. So: Is there room for a Co-ordinated Nordic Approach? Sure!! Lars Björnshauge

  32. The Nordic Council • NORIA (nordic Research and Innovation Area) • Whitebook about building the Nordic countries into a leading region for research and innovation • Gustav Björkstrand • October 2003 Lars Björnshauge

  33. Nordic cooperation?? • The Nordic Council: • Reconstruction of the Nordic cooperation in research!? • Time for an intervention/action when it comes to Open Access to research?? Lars Björnshauge

  34. Nordic coopertaion:Creating Awareness • Networking/ pooling resources • Transform existing network – SRVK – into a Nordic Network • Funding: • Nordic Council • Associations • Universities/Research Institutions • Libraries Lars Björnshauge

  35. So: There is room for a Co-ordinated Nordic Approach? Let´s go for it!! Thanks for your attention! lars.bjornshauge@lub.lu.se Lars Björnshauge

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