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Danish Science Minister Prepared to Mandate Immediate Green Open Access Self-Archiving in University Repositories Stevan Harnad 27 Sep 2010 12:59 UTC

** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

As the result of a public hearing launched in May 2010, the Danish
Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation is now prepared to
mandate Green Open Access Self-Archiving in University Repositories
immediately upon publication: "This means that when they are ready to
be printed in journals, research articles  are archived in publicly
accessible databases at the universities where the authors of the
articles are employed." (Thanks to Ingegerd Rabow for posting the news
to Amsci: http://bit.ly/9PR3bg)

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Date: 2010/9/27
Subject: New issue of ScieCom info
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Dear Readers,

Welcome to the September issue of ScieCom info. Nordic-Baltic Forum
for Scientific Communication
http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/anno=uncement/view/16

BREAKING NEWS!

The Danish Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Charlotte
Sahl-Madsen, is prepared to introduce a policy of Open Access to
publicly funded research.

Read more in the news item by Adrian Price:

Danish Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation goes in for
Green Open Access

The Swedish Ministry of Education and Research comments:

“The Swedish Government announced last year that they will work on a
national Open Access policy  for Sweden in 2010. Further information
on this will be presented in November.”

Katarina Bjelke, Ministry of Education and Research, Sweden.

ARTICLES

Erik Sandewall discusses the problem of managing “moral copyright” for
evolving publications, i.e. works that with modern technology easily
can be amended and extended over time. The author has a solution to
propose and is preparing an experimental implementation.

Erik Sandewall: Exercising moral Copyright for Evolving Publications

Jan Erik Frantsvåg describes the Norwegian RoMEO project. There is
little or no information about numerous Norwegian journals, serials
and publishers in the international Sherpa/RoMEO service operated by
the University of Nottingham. The project found a local collection to
be of limited usefulness. Success depends on the incorporation of
Norwegian journal and publisher information into the Sherpa/RoMEO
service.

Jan Erik Frantsvåg: A Norwegian RoMEO

“Open Educational Resources – a resource for learning” describes a
current national project for  promoting the use of open educational
resources among HE teachers in Sweden, and making them interested both
in using other teachers’ material and in making their own materials
freely available. A number of social media will be used to inspire a
continuous discussion of OER.

Alastair Creelman, Åsa Forsberg: Open Educational Resources – a
resource for learning

The Swedish National Library 4-year OpenAccess.se development
programme ended last year with an international evaluation. This has
led to a new start for the programme, which has become permanent, and
starts from a new level with a broader perspective. Its three main
areas are now: OA-policy, OA information to researchers, and
development of infrastructure and user services.

Jan Hagerlid: A new start for OpenAccess.se

The 14th International Conference on Electronic Publishing – ELPUB
2010 took place in Helsinki 16 – 18 June 2010. The conference was
hosted by Hanken School of Economics. More than 30 papers and short
communications addressed the issues of electronic publishing and
social networks; scholarly publishing models; and technological
convergence, all chosen as themes for the conference.

 Turid Hedlund: ELPUB 2010 – Publishing in the Networked world:
Transforming the Nature of Communication

The EIFL General Assembly 2010, which was held on August 6th - 8th in
Lund/Sweden, put this year’s main focus on Open Access Policies and
Publishing as well as on EIFL programmes, e.g.”Copyright for
Librarians”, and offered the valuable possibility of meeting
publishers and exchanging ideas and information through”speed dating”.
Librarians from almost all of the 48 EIFL member countries in Africa,
Asia or Europe seized the opportunity and came to Lund

Dina Heegen: The Open Access Situation in Developing and Transition
Countries:A Report from the EIFL General Assembly 2010/Lund

Lithuania was one of the countries in focus at the EIFL, and we are
happy to publish a comprehensive article on the development of OA in
Lithuania. Günter Tautkevičienė et al. specifically describe the goals
of creating the Lithuanian Academic e-Library (eLABa) as a national
aggregated OA repository of scientific works, practices and the
benefits of its integration into the worldwide OA infrastructure.
Participation in the PEER project will enable them to produce a new
eLABa collection of peer-reviewed scientific articles.

Günter Tautkevičienė et al: Integration of THE LITHUANIAN ACADEMIC
e-LIBRARY (eLABa) into THE international open access infrastructure.

As always, your comments and ideas are very welcome

Ingegerd Rabow / Editor-in-chief