ScieCom Info

ScieCom info – Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication is a two-year project funded by the Nordbib research funding programme
ISSN: 1652-3202

Mission:
• To inspire new activities and facilitate knowledge exchange between Nordic/Baltic
• stakeholder, and to increase the international visibility of Nordic and Baltic policies and initiatives
• To stress the importance of Open Access in the Nordic and Baltic countries and to describe both theoretical and best-practice models for financing, rights management and other fundamental issues.
• To disseminate to both a Nordic/Baltic and an international readership information about successful initiatives and other activities in the Nordic and Baltic countries.


Announcements

 

News: The Swedish Research Council requires free access to research results

 

To obtain a research grant, the Swedish Research Council now requires researchers to publish their material so as to make it available to all. The public and other researchers should have free access to all material financed by public means.

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Vol 5, No 4 (2009)

Table of Contents

Forthcoming Events

The 14th international conference on Electronic Publishing, "Publishing in the Networked World: transforming the Nature of Communication" will be arranged in Helsinki 16-18 June 2010. Abstract
Turid Hedlund

Editorial

Dear Readers, Welcome to the Christmas issue of ScieCom info. Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication Abstract
Ingegerd Rabow

Articles

Nordbib - a success story Abstract PDF
Jon Duke, Andy Jordan
The Danish experience of the Houghton studies: costs and benefits of alternative publishing models Abstract PDF
Mikkel Christoffersen
”Free” Open Choice – beware of Greeks bearing gifts Abstract PDF
Jan Erik Frantsvåg
Lund University supports publishing in OA journals: an examination Abstract PDF
Jörgen Eriksson
Greater access to scholarly publications from Copenhagen Business School - The CBS Open Access Policy 2009 Abstract PDF
Leif Hansen
Open Access at Swedish Universities and University Colleges: From Headwind to Tailwind? Abstract PDF
Peter Linde, Helena Stjernberg, Aina Svensson
Theseus.fi: Open Access Publishing in the Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences Abstract PDF
Herkko Hietanen, Anna-Kaisa Sjölund
Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact seminar Abstract PDF
Iryna Kuchma
Report from the NOAP conference: Nordic Scientific and Scholarly journal publishing – interesting times (NSSJP) Abstract PDF
Kristoffer Homqvist