From: Ingegerd Rabow <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:59:07 +0000
[Apologies for cross-postings]
Welcome to the March 2012 issue of ScieCom info. Nordic-Baltic Forum
for Scientific Communication.
NEWS:
The first OA-mandate in Iceland
Bifröst University, Iceland, has recently adopted an OA-mandate. All
personnel employed after the implementation of the mandate shall
deposit a post-print version of scientific articles created in the
course of their duties in the institutional repository of the
University. Read more about the policy in Njörður Sigurjónsson’s
article “An Open Access mandate in Iceland.”
COMING EVENT
Welcome to the Black Diamond and the conference “Structural frameworks
for open, digital research - strategy, policy & infrastructure”,
Copenhagen, June 11-13 2012, at the Danish Royal Library. Read all
about this exciting conference at: http://conference.nordbib.net
ARTICLES
We offer you ten articles covering as diverse subjects as the creation
and implementing of OA-mandates, the finances of hybrid OA-publishing,
the use of bibliometrics in Lithuania and in the Nordic countries, the
Danish launch of an infrastructure for primary data and the creation
of the danPID, a conference report from Tromsø, an overview of
OER-Open Educational Resources, and –lastly – an experienced summing
up of 10 years’ work with OA in Sweden and internationally.
Njörður Sigurjónsson, “An Open Access mandate in Iceland”
http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5425/4751
Jonas Gilbert, “Patience is a virtue? Some reflections on mandate
implementation and uptake”.
http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5423/4749
Jan Erik Frantsvåg, “The – hopeless? - quest for gold …”
http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5422/4748
Žibutė Petrauskienė,“Bibliometric researches – new service at Vilnius
University Library”.
http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5427/4753
Hampus Rabow, “Bibliometric research output indicators and university
funding in the Nordic countries”.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5431/4763
Thea M. Drachen, Asger V. Larsen, Bertil F. Dorch: “KUBIS Dataverse
Network – A repository for primary data at the The Royal Library /
Copenhagen University Library and Informationservice.”
http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5420/4755
Adrian Price: “A Persistent Identifiers in Denmark anno 2012”
http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5428/4754
Leif Longva, “A brief report on the 6th Munin Conference on Scientific
publishing 22-23 November 2011 in Tromsø, Norway.”
http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5426/4752
Lasse Bourelius, Alastair Creelman , Åsa Forsberg, ”OER – an
international trend with slow development in Sweden.”
http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5421/4747
Jan Hagerid, “Open access - looking ten years back and a few years ahead”
http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5424/4750
We hope that you will have a god read. Your comments and ideas are
always most welcome
Ingegerd Rabow
Editor-in-chief
ScieCom info
www.sciecom.org/sciecominfo
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