From: Ingegerd Rabow <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:21:05 +0000

[Apologies for cross-postings]

Welcome to the December 2012 issue of ScieCom info. Nordic - Baltic
Forum for Scientific Communication.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NEWS

Two new publication funds established in Norway during the last few days.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5770

DOAJ: New agreement regarding management of the Directory of Open
Access Journals.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5768

DOAJ: Lars Bjørnshauge Managing Director of the Directory of Open
Access Journals.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5771

COMING EVENTS

Book the date for Mötesplats Open Access  (Meeting Place Open Access)
17-18  April 2013 at the School of Business, Gothenburg University.

The 17th International Conference on Electronic Publishing -  “Mining
the Digital Information Networks” will be held June 13-14, 2013 at
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden. The main theme
will be extracting and processing data from the vast wealth of digital
publishing and the ways to use and reuse this information in
innovative social contexts in a sustainable way

ARTICLES

In this last issue for 2012 we start with the recent positive
OA-developments in Sweden and concludes with an international
perspective on what stakeholders have to do to realize the potential
of OA. These two overviews are complemented by a report on recent
trends presented at the recent 7th Munin conference in Tromsø, and two
articles discussing the important problems of author identification

Ulf Kronman: “Open Access in Sweden - going from why to how“  The
author is coordinator of the programme OpenAccess.se at the National
Library of Sweden. He looks at the remarkable international advances
toward OA during 2012. His perspective includes the recent Swedish
governmental research bill, commissioning the Swedish Research Council
to coordinate the conditions for OA to research results and data among
the Swedish research funders in cooperation with the Swedish
Association for Higher Education and the National Library of Sweden
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5766/4962

Gudmundur A. Thorisson:“ Persistent, unique identifiers for authors –
ORCID and smaller publishers”  The author belongs to the Faculty of
Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iceland and has
been involved with the ORCID project for three years. He describes the
 recent launch of its central registry service for scholarly authors
and contributors. This service makes it possible for  researchers to
obtain a unique, persistent personal identifier and to maintain a
centralized record of their published works, grants and other
scholarly activities. He discusses what this means for small,
independent journal operations like ScieCom.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5769/4964

Adrian Price: “Author identification in Denmark: ORCID and
repositories“  The author comes from The Faculty of Life Sciences
Library at the University of Copenhagen and he takes the ORCID project
to Denmark.  All Danish universities register their research
publications  in their local Pure-repositories. The quality of the
registered data is important, and a central issue is the correct
identification of a researcher, his/her  organisation and
publications. How can ORCID solve this problem?
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5767/4963

Emma Margret Skåden: ”The 7th Annual Munin Conference on Scientific
Publishing 2012 – New Trends.” The author is Adviser at the University
Library in Tromsø, Norway and her report from their annual Munin
conference on scholarly and scientific publishing gives an overview of
what is happening in this field.  The focus of this year was new
trends in scholarly publishing. For the first time a publisher session
was organized.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5765/4961

Lars Bjørnshauge: “What it takes for the stakeholders involved to
facilitate the full potential of open access to unfold!.” As SPARC´s
Director of European Library Relations and recently appointed Managing
Director  of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  Lars
Bjørnshauge – as Ulf Kronman – points out the growing acceptance of OA
among important national and supranational stakeholders. But eve if
they realize the importance of OA for both research and society, they
falter when it comes to implementation and its problem.  According to
the author, the reason for all these  vacillations in spite of signing
declarations  is that research is financed but publishing is not. The
research community has outsourced the publishing of results to a
market  lacking competition.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5764/4960

We hope that you will have a god read. Your comments and ideas are
always most welcome

Happy Holidays!
Ingegerd Rabow Editor-in-chief ScieCom info