From: Ingegerd Rabow <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:13:50 +0000
Welcome to the December 2011 issue of ScieCom info. Nordic-Baltic
Forum for Scientific Communication.
News:
Oslo University, Norway, has adopted an OA-policy. All personnel
employed after 1 January 2012 shall deposit a post-print version of
scientific articles created in the course of their duties in the
university institutional repository .Se Charlotte Børdes article
below.
UK White Paper “Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth commits
the Government to require OA to all outputs from publicly funded
research. Read more in our NEWS Section.
http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/i/11-1387-innovation-and-research-strategy-for-growth.pdf
Our “Open Minds” series presents interviews from Lithuania and Sweden.
Our editor in Lithuania Meile Kretaviciene has interviewed the
Lithuanian publisher Eleonora Dagienė, Chair of Council of The
Lithuanian Association of Scholar Periodicals, about her views and
experiences of Open Access. Eleonora Dagienė appreciates open access
and believes that it gives greater opportunities for Lithuanian
journals.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5333/4703
Yvonne Hultman Özek has interviewed Mattias Collin, at the Department
of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He began advocating OA
when he became more and more frustrated by having to pay high page
charges despite giving up the copyright to his own work. He has seen
the attitudes to OA change from very sceptical to positive,and
believes that OA will be the future standard.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5335/4708
In “Open Access policy at the University of Oslo” Charlotte Børde,
Senior Legal Adviser at the University of Oslo, illustrates the
political background and the legal aspects of the Open Access policy
adopted by the Board of the University of Oslo University in December.
The author presents the policy itself and the institutional process
leading up to it.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5334/4704
In “Strategic Publishing Rules – a Manual for Researchers” Peter Linde
and Håkan Grahn at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, describe
how they try to handle the conflict between the research assessment
system with its emphasis on publishing in ISI-ranked journals and the
demands for OA-publishing.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5337/4707
Stina Johansson, Chalmers Library, Gothenburg, Sweden, presents “The
Geography of Science – an example from Chalmers”. The Chalmers
Library participates in the ongoing research assessment of the eight
Areas of Advance at Chalmers, and the bibliometricians have studied
the collaboration patterns of the Chalmers researchers.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5336/4711
In “Talking about open Access” Anne Sandfaer at the Danish Agency for
Libraries and Media, presents Knowledge Exchange , the partnership
between DEFF in Denmark, JISC in the UK, DFG in Germany, and the
SURFfoundation in Holland. This partnership has now launched a website
for OA success stories, coming from researchers, editors, publishers
or anybody involved in the distribution of research results.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5332/4709
We hope that you will have a god read. Your comments and ideas are very welcome
Ingegerd Rabow
Editor-in-chief
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