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[BOAI] October issue of ScieCom info

From: Ingegerd Rabow <Ingegerd.Rabow AT lub.lu.se>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:13:01 +0200



[Apologies for cross-posting]



SCIECOMINFO 3 (2009)<http://www.sciecom.org/sciecominfo>
(http://www.sciecom.org/sciecominfo)

Dear Readers,

Our most important News is the Swedish Research Council's OA-mandate." To 
obtain a research grant, the Swedish Research Council now requires researchers 
to publish their material so as to make it available to all. The public and 
other researchers should have free access to all material financed by public 
means.
Further 
Information<http://www.vr.se/inenglish/fromus/news/newsarchive/news2009/news2009/theswedishresearchcouncilrequiresfreeaccesstoresearchresults.5.227c330c123c73dc586800012074.html>.

We also want to point to the 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
(COASP) held in Lund, Sweden 14-16 September this year. The recordings of the 
individual presentations are posted at 
http://www.river-valley.tv<http://www.river-valley.tv/>.

In our series Open Minds Jan Hagerlid presents an 
interview<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1768/1397> with Gunnel Engwall, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, professor of Romance languages at Stockholm University.  She relates the Academy's motives for signing both the Berlin declaration and the EU-petition in 2007 and the consecutive measures taken by the Academy. Gunnel Enwall also discusses publishing patterns in the Humanities and the current popular evaluation metrics.

A new Danish open access network (DOAN) has been established. This and other 
developments in Denmark are 
reported<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1762/1391> by our Danish editor Adrian Price.

In his article Building a repository infrastructure for 
Finland<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1763/1392>, Jyrki Ilva, Systems librarian at the National Library of Finland presents the background and developments, valuable experiences and best practice, and challenges for coming years.

Activities in Iceland are presented by two articles.
Áslaug Ágnarsdottir's The University of Iceland joins 
Skemman<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1764/1393> is a short report of their experiences and a somewhat surprising attitude to OA to their theses on the part of the students.

Ian Watson at Bifröst University writes about Starting an Open Access journal 
in Iceland. The Bifröst Journal of Social Science / Tímarit um félagsvísindi is 
one of Iceland's first open access journals and the first to use Open Journal 
Systems software. His 
article<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1765/1394> summarizes lessons learned from the first three years of the journal's operation.

>From Norway Ingrid Cutler at the University of Bergen Library 
writes<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1766/1395> about Creating a library service for scholarly open access journals and describes the objectives of this service to support both independent journals wanton to convert to open access, and professional groups desiring a service for the starting of a new journal with open access.
Focus is on the library's experiences in establishing and offering such a 
service.

Ingar Lomheim at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology Library 
reports<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1767/1396> on their publishing activities in The focus on publishing at the NTNU library. The NTNU has decided to put a special focus on publishing, and the article describes the two major reasons for this decision as well as the project organisation, goals, resources, and open access publishing

As usual, your comments and ideas are very welcome

Ingegerd Rabow
Editor-in-chief


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