Sciecom info June 2011

[Ingegerd Rabow <Ingegerd.Rabow@lub.lu.se>]

Welcome to the June 2011 issue of ScieCom info. Nordic-Baltic 
Forum for Scientific Communication.

There has been a lot of international concern about Elsevier's 
recently changed Open Access Policy. We can now publish a formal 
statement made by the Swedish national OpenAccess.se programme, 
run by the Swedish National Library to promote OA to research 
results produced by Swedish researchers. The Steering Committee 
is deeply concerned about any changes that restrict availability 
and strongly objects to Elsevier's new policy. "OpenAccess.se 
Statement: Concern about Elsevier's Open Access Policy."
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5146/4608

An Open Access Policy has now been adopted by the Karolinska 
Institute (KI), Stockholm. The Policy will be in effect from July 
1, 2011. KI encourages its researchers to make their publications 
to the greatest possible extent freely available, taking into 
account publisher terms and relevant demands of grant-awarding 
bodies and government authorities.  es. Read KI's Open access 
Policy here.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5146/4608

The DOAJ team in Lund is happy to announce that the DOAJ site is 
now available in French. Other languages will follow.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5146/4608

Will the more mundane communication channels have any roles in 
scholarly publishing? Will they seriously challenge the old 
academic publishing traditions? We hope to inspire lively 
discussions with the article "Taking new routes: Blogs, Web 
sites, and Scientific Publishing "by Helena Bukvova, a researcher 
and lecturer at the Dresden University of Technology. Helena 
Bukova presents several new aspects of web usage for researchers.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5148

We continue to follow the promising OA developments in Denmark. 
Lise Mikkelsen has earlier reported on the hearing process for 
the first draft of the "Recommendations for implementation of 
Open Access in Denmark". The final version has now been released. 
In "Central Open Access activities in Denmark" Lise Mikkelsen 
takes us through the key events related to the final 
Recommendations, and presents some of the main areas in the 
Danish Open Access Committee's final recommendations for 
implementing a national OA-policy in Denmark.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5149

"Promote a national open access policy and create the necessary 
conditions for an efficient implementation of it" is one of the 
most important goals for the new strategy recently adopted by the 
Steering Committee for the Swedish OpenAccess.se programme. The 
main purpose of the Programme is to help increasing the share of 
freely available research publications on the Internet. "Strategy 
for the OpenAccess.se programme 2011-2013" was adopted at the 
Committee's May 23rd meeting.  The new strategy also defines 
goals for specific areas as well as the means to reach them.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5150

Jan Erik Frantsvag has earlier presented, "The Open Access 
publication fund at the University of Tromso". His colleague Leif 
Longva now reports on "Doctoral theses are now submitted 
electronically at the University of Tromso". It all started in 
late 2007, when an electronic submission portal for master theses 
was introduced.  The great success of this portal led them to 
consider doing the same for doctoral these. They had been 
surprised to notice that doctoral candidates were reluctant to 
include their theses in the Munin open archive. Encouraged by the 
earlier success the library launched a similar service for 
doctoral theses.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5151

We hope that you will have a god read. Your comments and ideas 
are very welcome

Ingegerd Rabow
Editor-in-chief
ScieCom info
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