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

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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)

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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

November 2003Lars Björnshauge OAI-compliant Institutional repositories in Nordic Countries  Finland:  VTT Publications Register  Norway:  University of Oslo, Digital Library  Sweden:  Academic Archive On-Line (DiVA)  Epsilon Publishing System  LU:research OAIster

November 2003Lars Björnshauge Consolidation services  Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) –  A collection of peer reviewed open access journals  All disciplines – all languages  One interface

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November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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)

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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

November 2003Lars Björnshauge In the pipeline  Self-Archiving/Institutional Repositories/Subject Repositories (BOAI 2)

November 2003Lars Björnshauge In the pipeline: Self-Archiving/Institutional Repositories (BOAI 2)  Denmark:  Denmarks Electronic Research Library (DEF) – working group  Sweden:  SVEP (Electronic Publishing in Swedish Universities)

November 2003Lars Björnshauge SVEP  Aim:  Promote and coordinate the development of electronic publishing,  Funded by BIBSAM  Participants:  Uppsala, Gothenburg, Lund etc.

November 2003Lars Björnshauge The main problem today  Creating awareness  Making university decision makers aware  Making research funders aware  Making researchers aware

November 2003Lars Björnshauge Creating Awareness: National level initiatives  Finland  FinELib - FinOA  Norway  Norwegian Digital Library  Sweden  Association of Swedish Universities & University Colleges (SUHF)

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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) -

November 2003Lars Björnshauge Recommendations  The need for changes in the current system for scholarly publishing  The need to establish conditions for creating professional, publishing services within universities 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

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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)

November 2003Lars Björnshauge Creating Awareness National level initiatives  SUHF  task force decided  intellectual property rights agreements  initiate discussions with research councils/funders

November 2003Lars Björnshauge Creating Awareness: Networking/ pooling resources  Swedish Resource Center for Scholarly Communication  Operated by Lund University Libraries  A cooperative network  Seminars  Rich Web-site –

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November 2003Lars Björnshauge Creating awareness II  1 st Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund/Copenhagen, Oct  2 nd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund, April 2004 –

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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!

November 2003Lars Björnshauge Proposed actions: Government agencies  Policy vis-a-vis universities, research institutions etc.  mandatory open access publishing of research based on government funded research  Communicating the issues to the Nordic Council and national research councils & funders  Initiate and fund projects a la DARE, FAIR etc.

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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

November 2003Lars Björnshauge Proposed actions: Libraries  Host and operate institutional/subject repositories  Support awareness initiatives  Focus on promoting OA material fully integrated in their services

November 2003Lars Björnshauge Lund University  LU:research (Institutional Repository)  From project to university wide solution  Add-ons: Virtual Medical Journal  Intellectual property rights agreements:  Lund University:   Retaining right to self-archiving  Taken up by the Danish Committee for Proctection of Scholarly Works

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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 -  The one-stop-shop integrating toll-access material, open access journals and repositories  In operation at 10 Swedish Universities and recently at Ghent University

November 2003Lars Björnshauge So: Is there room for a Co-ordinated Nordic Approach? Sure!!

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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

November 2003Lars Björnshauge 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??

November 2003Lars Björnshauge Nordic coopertaion: Creating Awareness  Networking/ pooling resources  Transform existing network – SRVK – into a Nordic Network  Funding:  Nordic Council  Associations  Universities/Research Institutions  Libraries

November 2003Lars Björnshauge So: There is room for a Co-ordinated Nordic Approach? Let´s go for it!! Thanks for your attention!