Title: Open Access in Sweden 2002 - 2005
1Open Access in Sweden 2002 - 2005
- Presentation at ELPUB 2006, Bansko, June 16, 2006
- Jan Hagerlid, National Library of Sweden
2Parallell tracks
- Communication and reception of the Open Access
model - Building a new infrastructure based on digital
academic repositories - Country report, highlighting general issues of
national strategy
3The involved players
- Universities (14), university colleges and other
institutions of higher education with their
libraries (in all 39) - The Association of Swedish Higher Education
- ( SUHF)
- The Royal Swedish Academy of the Sciences
- The Swedish Research Council
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4The involved players
- The National Library of Sweden
- BIBSAM, National Co-ordination and Development
- LIBRIS, national union catalogue and other
services - IDA, department for collection development and
documentation incl. legal deposit -
5BIBSAMs overall objective
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- To promote the efficient provision of
information to higher education research,
primarily by trying to ensure - that the resources of the Swedish research
libraries are well used and developed, and that - open access to information is maintained and
developed.
6BIBSAM
- Manages a licence consortium for e-resources
- Initiates and supports development projects
- Manages a network of national expert libraries
- Performs special studies in the libraryand
information area - Supports interlibrary lending
7Initiatives promoting Open Access
- ScieCom - Swedish Resource Centre for Scientific
Communication - to provide information, and stimulate debate
about scientific publishing and Open Access
initiatives - NSCS Nordic Conference on Scientific
Communication - Organized by Lund University Libraries
- Financed or subsidized by BIBSAM
8DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
- Provides access to quality controlled scientific
and scholarly OA journals. Today (June 12) 2271
journals in the directory. Currently 647 journals
are searchable at article level - Support by OSI, SPARC and BIBSAM
9SUHF taking an active stand
- Pathways for Knowledge - the need for a common
new strategic orientation for universities and
their libraries (2003) Study commisioned by the
Association of Swedish Higher Education ( SUHF) - - need for changes in the current system for
scholarly publishing - - establish conditions for creating
professional publishing services within
universities and university colleges - - libraries are the natural choice for the
organisation of such activities -
- Working group on academic publishing
- Signed the Berlin Declaration in oct 2004, The
Swedish Research Council in Spring 2005
10Communication of the Open access model
- Initiatives from the Open Access movement,
internationally and nationally - Library and researchers perspective
- Big Deals and Open Access
- The quick move to a positive view of Open Access
from the SUHF and the Swedish Research Council
11 SVEP - Samordning av den SVenska högskolans
Elektroniska Publicering
- Co-ordination of Electronic Publishing within
Swedish Higher Education - Major players were the Royal Library (KB),
Uppsala University Library (UUB) and Lund
University Libraries (LUB) 7 other HE
libraries. - Funding granted by BIBSAM SEK 3.2 million (347
000 EURO) for 2003 - 2005
12Mission
- Co-ordinate and scale up the development of
e-publishing within higher education, by - Support HE institutions through advice on
technical platforms and collaboration concerning
standards - Long-term goals
- Support maximum visibility of output of research
and learning - Promote long-term availability of digital
resources - Promote efficiency and sustainability by avoiding
duplication of efforts
13WP1 Harmonization of metadata
- Recommended metadata formats (also in English)
for - (Research) publication databases
- E-publications from Swedish HE institutions
- Minimum simple oai-dc, advanced level compatible
with library catalogues - Broad system of subject categories
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14WP2 Long-term Access and Preservation
- Establish workflow between local repository and
the national archive at the Royal Library - Resolution service
- Persistent identifier
- Metadata for Preservation
- File Format registry
15WP3 Search service for undergraduate theses
- Create a national service based on harvesting
local repositories using OAI-PMH - Metadata model using simple DC
- Service in operation at LIBRIS website autumn
2004 - 20 univ/univ.colleges, 15000 theses
16WP4-5 Advice and dissemination
- Advice and support for e-publishing tools and
standards - Overview of institutional repository software,
- Network of experts
- Seminars and workshops
17Discussion
- How to achieve national co-ordination
- The importance of qualified metadata
- The relation between publication databases and
digital repositories - Are subject categories important
- Are national portals for e-publications useful?
18Institutional Repositories - present status
- Libraries have a core role, high-level university
support varies - Main content dissertations and undergraduate
theses, but growing numbers of reports, articles
etc - Uppsala University Library developed its own
publishing system DiVA, now used by 13 HE
institutions in Sweden in a consortium - Others use Eprints, Dspace and local solutions
- 19 OAI-compliant IR, 14 registered OAI providers
19Directions for the future
- Basic infrastructure for digital repositories in
operation - Significant players in the academia positive to
Open Access - Achieve critical mass of significant content,
specifically self-archived articles - Develop a national strategy with wide support
20OpenAccess.se new development programme
- Strategic goal To promote maximum accessibility
and visibility of works produced by researchers,
teachers and students at Swedish universities and
university colleges - Runs 2006-2007, ca 3-400 000 Euro/year
- The programme is led by a Steering Committee with
representatives from universities, research
organisations, university libraries and, the
National Library. - Working member from the Royal Academy
21Objectives
- To promote co-ordination and development of
standards and tools for electronic publishing at
Swedish universities and university colleges - To promote a rapid growth of the volume and
diversity of material in academic repositories - To promote access to and use of content in
academic repositories and Open Access journals
22Objectives
- To secure long-term access to digital
publications and other material in academic
repositories - To develop quality standards for content and
services in academic repositories - To support publishing in Open Access journals and
the migration of Swedish scientific journals to
an Open Access model
23Running projects
- ScieCom Swedish Resource Centre for Scientific
Communication - Electronic journals library support for
publishing - Testbed for interoperability test of a common
search service for Swedish academic
e-publications - Search service for Swedish scientific publications
24Running projects
- Long-term access from prototype to tools in
operation - Quality assurance of Swedish digital academic
repositories through certification - Automatic identification of citation in
monographs in Swedish digital academic
repositories