Open access in Sweden
{{short description|Overview of the culture and regulation of open access in Sweden}}
Open access to scholarly communication in Sweden is relatively widespread. In 2010 the Swedish Research Council began requiring its grantees to make research results available in open access form.{{cite web |url=https://www.openaire.eu/oa-in-sweden |title=OA in Sweden |work=Open Access in Practice: EU Member States |publisher=OpenAIRE |access-date=24 March 2018 }} Lund University Libraries and Stockholm University Press belong to the international Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.{{citation |work=Oaspa.org |url=http://oaspa.org/membership/members/ |title=Members |publisher=Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association |location=The Hague |access-date=7 April 2018 }}
Content in academic repositories can be found by searching {{illm|SwePub|sv}}.{{cite web |url=http://swepub.kb.se |language=en, sv |title=SwePub |publisher=National Library of Sweden |access-date=24 March 2018 }}
Repositories
There are a number of collections of scholarship in Sweden housed in digital open access repositories.{{cite web |url= http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Europe#Sweden |title= Sweden |work= Directory of Open Access Repositories |publisher= University of Nottingham |location= UK |access-date= 15 April 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090206084105/http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Europe#Sweden |archive-date= 6 February 2009 |url-status= dead }} They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read. [http://swepub.kb.se/ Swepub] is the national database for scholarly publications in Sweden. Swepub aggregate scholarly output from a number of sources. One of the sources is the {{illm|Diva-portal.org|sv|Diva (digitalt arkiv)}} platform.
Timeline
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Key events in the development of open access in Sweden include the following:{{says who?|date=April 2018}}
- 2001
- May: Swedish Wikipedia begins publication.
- October: Susning.nu Swedish language wiki begins publication.
- 2008
- February: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences begins policy encouraging deposits in its institutional repository.{{cite book |author=Peter Suber |title=Open Access |url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_%28the_book%29 |year=2012 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=9780262517638 |page= 192 }}
- 2011
- March: Malmö University begins requiring deposits in its institutional repository.{{cite web |url=http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/country/752.html |title= Browse by Country: Sweden |work=ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies |publisher=University of Southampton |location=UK |access-date= 28 April 2018 }}{{cite book |author=Peter Suber |title=Open Access |url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_%28the_book%29 |year=2012 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=9780262517638 |page=193 |quote=Loophole mandates}}
- 2016
- November: the Swedish Research Bill establishes that the National Library is responsible for activities concerning open access to scientific publications and that the Swedish Research Council is responsible for work on open access to research data. The two institutions must act in consultation with each other and with other bodies involved.{{cite web |url=https://www.regeringen.se/4adad0/contentassets/72faaf7629a845af9b30fde1ef6b5067/kunskap-i-samverkan--for-samhallets-utmaningar-och-starkt-konkurrenskraft-prop.-20161750.pdf |title=Kunskap i samverkan –för samhällets utmaningar och stärkt konkurrenskraft |year=2016 |access-date= 12 November 2020}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{citation |author=Swedish Research Council |title=Proposal for National Guidelines for Open Access to Scientific Information |url=https://publikationer.vr.se/en/product/proposal-for-national-guidelines-for-open-access-to-scientific-information/ |isbn=978-91-7307-263-2 |year=2015}}
- {{cite book |chapter= Sweden |author= Walt Crawford |title=Gold Open Access by Country 2012-2017 |url=https://waltcrawford.name/goaj.html |publisher=Cites & Insights Books |location= US |year= 2018 }} {{free access}}
- {{citation |author= Jörgen Eriksson |title= Offsetting: no big deal? |journal= Nordic Perspectives on Open Science |number= 1 |issn= 2464-1839 |doi= 10.7557/11.4430 |year=2018 |pages= 1–11 |doi-access= free }} (Case study of Bibsamkonsortiet (Swedish National Consortia)).
- {{citation |title=Hur gör du din forskning allmänt tillgänglig (open access)? Gratis och lagligt |trans-title=How to make your research open access? For free and legally |language=sv |doi=10.6084/m9.figshare.5866785.v2 |author1=Lisa Matthias |author2=Jon Tennant |chapter=Uncategorized |translator=Lachlan Fetterplace |publisher=Figshare |year=2018 }}
External links
- {{cite web |url=http://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/english/ |language=en, sv |title=Coordination of Open Access to Research Publications in Sweden |work=OpenAccess.se |publisher=National Library of Sweden}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.vr.se/inenglish/aboutus/activities/analysisevaluationandfollowup/nationalguidelinesforopenaccesstoresearchinformation.4.18f425dd146e9437d292db46.html |title=National Guidelines for Open Access to Scientific Information |work=Vr.se |publisher=Swedish Research Council |access-date=2018-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325045102/https://www.vr.se/inenglish/aboutus/activities/analysisevaluationandfollowup/nationalguidelinesforopenaccesstoresearchinformation.4.18f425dd146e9437d292db46.html |archive-date=2018-03-25 |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/access-by-region/europe-and-north-america/sweden/ |work=Global Open Access Portal |title=Sweden |publisher=UNESCO}}
- {{cite web |work=Registry of Open Access Repositories |publisher=University of Southampton |location=UK |url=http://roar.eprints.org/view/geoname/geoname.html |title=Browse by Country}}
- {{cite web |url=https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.sweden |title=Sweden |work=TagTeam: Open Access Tracking Project |oclc= 1040261573 |publisher=Harvard University}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Europe#Sweden |title=Sweden |work=Directory of Open Access Repositories |publisher=University of Nottingham |location=UK |access-date=2018-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206084105/http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Europe#Sweden |archive-date=2009-02-06 |url-status=dead }}
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