From: Ingegerd Rabow <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 14:25:16 +0000 Welcome to the Grand Final issue of ScieCom info: Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication November 2014. We thank all our faithful readers throughout our ten-year existence and are very grateful for all your support. It has been a real pleasure to be able to cooperate with our experienced and resourceful editors in all the Nordic and in the Baltic countries, and we sincerely hope, that this Nordic-Baltic cooperation will live on to give a common support to the Open Access movement. Special thanks to our highly valued web editor and editorial staff. Finally – many thanks to all our authors from our Nordic and Baltic countries. Your contributions on the developments of OA-publishing and OA-policies in your countries have generated an international interest. In this issue we present an overview of the DOAJ, once created here at Lund university, the opinions on OA-policy in the Norwegian an Swedish research councils, an interview with a Lithuanian academician on the advantages of OA, and report on the current status of OA in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Have a good read! Ingegerd Rabow Editor-in-chief, ScieCom info --- "Bringing the DOAJ to a new level" by Lars Bjørnshauge, Managing Director, DOAJ http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11633/10309 "A boost for open access to research in Norway" by Jon Øygarden Flæten, adviser, The Research Council of Norway http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11634/10321 "The Swedish Research Council tries to leap for the moon but never leaves the ground – comment on the SRC draft guidelines for open access" by Jan Hagerlid http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11635/10320 "Academician Antanas Buračas suggests publication in open access for everyone who seeks to find partners for their ideas" by Emilija Banionytė, Director of Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, and Rasa Dovidonytė, the Senior Information manager, the Library of Kaunas University of Technology http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11636/10310 BALTIC Three reports on the Open Access movement in each of the Baltic Countries: "Open Access in Estonia" by Elena Sipria-Mironov, the University of Tartu Library, Estonia http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11637/10311 "The Open Access movement in Latvia" by Iveta Gudakovska, GitaRozenberga, Evija Lapsa, Library of the University of Latvia http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11638/10312 "Open Access in Lithuania" by Gintare Tautkevičienė, Rūta Petrauskaitė, Brigita Serafinavičiūtė, http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11639/10313 DENMARK "Open Access in Denmark" by Adrian Price, Faculty of Life Sciences Library, University of Copenhagen http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11641/10315 FINLAND "Open access in Finland 2014" by Turid Hedlund, Associate Professor at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki Finland http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11642/10316 ICELAND "The University of Iceland open access policy: The work involved and the attitude of the academic staff" by Áslaug Agnarsdóttir, Director of Services at The National and University Library in Reykjavik. http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11643/10317 NORWAY "Open Access the last ten years – how far have we come?" by Jan Erik Frantsvåg, Open Access adviserThe University Library of Tromsø, Norway http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11644/10318 SWEDEN "The Share of Open Access in Sweden 2011 – analyzing the OA outcome from Swedish universities" by Margareta Fathli, librarian at KTH Royal Institute of Technology School, Tomas Lundén, librarian at SLU University Library, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences., and Peter Sjögårde bibliometric analyst. http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/11645/10319 *******