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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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BIBSAM’s 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