[EIFLoa] December 2011 Issue - Sciecom Info: Oslo Uni OA policy & Open Minds series

[Iryna Kuchma]

[Forwarded message from Ingegerd Rabow]

 [Apologies for cross-posting]****

* *

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

News:****

Oslo University, Norway, has adopted an OA-policy. All personnel employed
after 1 January 2012 *shall *deposit a post-print version of scientific
articles created in the course of their duties in the university
institutional repository .Se Charlotte Børdes article
below<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5334/4704>
.****

**·        **UK White Paper “Innovation and Research Strategy for
Growth<http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/i/11-1387-innovation-and-research-strategy-for-growth.pdf>
* *commits the Government to require OA to all outputs from publicly funded
research. Read more in our NEWS
Section<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5339>
.* *

Our *“Open Minds” series* presents interviews from Lithuania and Sweden.**

**·        **Our editor in Lithuania Meile
Kretaviciene<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5333/4703>has
interviewed the Lithuanian publisher Eleonora
Dagienė, Chair of Council of The Lithuanian Association of  Scholar
Periodicals, about her views and experiences of Open Access. Eleonora Dagienė
appreciates open access and believes that it gives greater opportunities
for Lithuanian journals. ****

**·        **Yvonne Hultman
Özek<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5335/4708>has
interviewed Mattias Collin, at
the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He began
advocating OA when he became more and more frustrated by having to pay high
page charges despite giving up the copyright to his own work. He has seen
the attitudes to OA  change  from very sceptical to positive,and believes
that OA will be the future standard. ****

**·        **In *“Open Access policy at the University of Oslo”* Charlotte
Børde<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5334/4704>
*, *Senior Legal Adviser at the University of Oslo, illustrates the
political background and the legal aspects of the Open Access policy
adopted by *the *Board of the University of Oslo University in December.
The author presents the policy itself and the institutional process leading
up to it.****

**·        **In *“Strategic Publishing Rules – a Manual for Researchers” *Peter
Linde and Håkan
Grahn<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5337/4707>at
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, describe how they try to
handle
* *the conflict between the research assessment system with its emphasis on
publishing in ISI-ranked journals and the demands for OA-publishing.  ****

**·        ** Stina
Johansson<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5336/4711>
, Chalmers Library,  Gothenburg, Sweden, presents *“The Geography of Scienc*e
– *an example from Chalmers”.*  The Chalmers Library participates  in the
ongoing research assessment of the eight Areas of Advance at Chalmers, and
the bibliometricians have studied the collaboration patterns of the
Chalmers researchers.  ****

**·        **In “Talking about open Access” Anne
Sandfaer<http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5332/4709>
at
the Danish Agency for Libraries and Media, presents Knowledge Exchange ,
the partnership between DEFF in Denmark, JISC in the UK, DFG in Germany,
and the SURFfoundation in Holland. This partnership has now launched a
website for OA success stories, coming from researchers, editors,
publishers or anybody involved in the distribution of research results. ****

We hope that you will have a god read. Your comments and ideas are very
welcome
Ingegerd Rabow
Editor-in-chief
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