** 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) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ingegerd Rabow -- Ingegerd.Rabow lub.lu.se Date: 2010/9/27 Subject: New issue of ScieCom info To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@listserver.sigmaxi.org 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
