Open Access in Sweden 2002 - 2005

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Open Access in Sweden 2002 - 2005

• Presentation at ELPUB 2006, Bansko, June 16, 2006
• Jan Hagerlid, National Library of Sweden

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Parallell 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

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The 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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The 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

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BIBSAMs overall objective

• 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.

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BIBSAM

• 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

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Initiatives 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

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DOAJ - 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

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SUHF 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

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Communication 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

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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

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Mission

• 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

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WP1 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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WP2 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

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WP3 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

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WP4-5 Advice and dissemination

• Advice and support for e-publishing tools and
  standards
• Overview of institutional repository software,
• Network of experts
• Seminars and workshops

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Discussion

• 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?

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Institutional 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

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Directions 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

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OpenAccess.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

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Objectives

• 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

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Objectives

• 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

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Running 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

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Running 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