Open access in Norway

Open access scholarly communication of Norway can be searched via the Norwegian Open Research Archive (NORA).[nb 1] "A national repository consortium, BIBSYS Brage, operates shared electronic publishing system on behalf of 56 institutions."[2] Cappelen Damm Akademisk, Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and Universitetsforlaget belong to the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.[3] Norwegian signatories to the international "Open Access 2020" campaign, launched in 2016, include CRIStin, Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi (Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, NIBIO), Norwegian Institute of Palaeography and Historical Philology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø, University of Bergen, University of Oslo, and Wikimedia Norge.[4]

Repositories

There are a number of collections of scholarship in Norway housed in digital open access repositories.[5]

Timeline

Key events in the development of open access in Norway include the following:

  • 2001
  • 2003
  • 2006
    • Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing begins in Tromsø.[7]
  • 2007
    • May: OpenAccess.no website launched.[8]
    • 27 June: Ministry of Education and Research State Secretary Lisbet Rugtvedt endorses open access.[8]
    • November: National policy adopted "requiring government agencies to provide open access to any geodata they gather or produce."[8]
  • 2009
  • 2010
    • CRIStin (Current Research Information System in Norway) launched.[9]
  • 2011
    • 18 February: UiT The Arctic University of Norway creates fund to cover author fees.[10]
  • 2013
    • Research Council of Norway pays for 40 open access journals.[11]
    • Norwegian University of Science and Technology creates fund to cover author fees.[10]
  • 2017
    • Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), a government agency, begins providing "open access to two of its publications: the CROP Series in International Poverty Poverty Studies and Global Challenges - Working Paper Series."[12]

Notes
  1. "The country’s total scholarly publication output is registered in Ceres, formerly CRIStin, the Current Research Information System in Norway."[1]
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References
  1. Susanne Mikki (2017). "Scholarly publications beyond pay-walls: increased citation advantage for open publishing". Scientometrics. 113 (3): 1529–1538. doi:10.1007/s11192-017-2554-0. ( Preprint version)
  2. "OA in Norway". Open Access in Practice: EU Member States. OpenAIRE. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  3. "Members", Oaspa.org, The Hague: Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, retrieved 7 April 2018
  4. "OA2020 Expression of Interest: List of Signatories". Oa2020.org. Münich: Max Planck Digital Library. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  5. "Norway". Directory of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Nottingham. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  6. "Berlin Declaration: Signatories", Openaccess.mpg.de, Munich: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, retrieved 26 April 2018
  7. "About the conference". Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing. UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  8. Nancy Pontika (ed.). "Timeline 2007". Open Access Directory. US: Simmons School of Library and Information Science. OCLC 757073363. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  9. Birgit Schmidt; Iryna Kuchma (2012). Implementing Open Access Mandates in Europe: OpenAIRE Study on the Development of Open Access Repository Communities in Europe. Universitätsverlag Göttingen. ISBN 978-3-86395-095-8 – via Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN). (+ via Google Books)
  10. Nancy Pontika (ed.). "OA publication funds". Open Access Directory. US: Simmons School of Library and Information Science. OCLC 757073363. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  11. Caroline Sutton (4 February 2014), Carrots, Sticks and Open Access Publishing in Norway – via Google+
  12. Nancy Pontika (ed.). "Publishers of OA books". Open Access Directory. US: Simmons School of Library and Information Science. OCLC 757073363. Retrieved 26 April 2018.

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