OPEN ACCESS IN SWEDEN Prof Elena Maceviciute Swedish

OPEN ACCESS IN SWEDEN Prof. Elena Maceviciute Swedish School of Library and Information Science 2 nd Open Science Seminar, November 13 -14 , 2019, Maputo, Mozambique

OUTLINE • Open access in Sweden: the start • Management and implementation of open access: • Actors • Initiatives • Results • University of Borås: case study on open access • Future of open access in Sweden

CONCEPTS OF THE OPEN 1) accessible (not enclosed on any side), presenting no obstacle; 2) not covered; 3) permitting passage; 4) free from concealment; 5) not restricted to a particular group; 6) spread out, disseminated; 6) available for following and use; 7) accessible and generous; 8) being in operation; 9) not regulated; 10) having no end…

RELATED TO ”OPEN” • Public • Free • Liber • Gratis • Unrestricted • Accessible • Available • Shared

TECHNOLOGY PENETRATION IN SWEDEN • In 2019, 98% of population have internet connection at home • In 2018, 78, 8% had a smart phone (3 rd in the world ranking) • In 2018, 66% participated in social media networks (SCB) • In 2018, 65% listened to music online (SCB) • In 2019, Sweden is third in the digital competitiveness rankings after the USA and Singapore

MAIN ACTORS • Researchers and universities • University libraries and librarians • University publishing units • SUHF – the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions • Government and Parliament of Sweden • National Library of Sweden • BIBSAM • Research Council – the main research funder, other research funders • Swedish Library Association – a member of IFLA, EBLIDA, LIBER…

FIRST OPEN ACCESS EVENTS • Project Runeberg, 1992 • Institutional repositories in libraries since the end of 1990 s • OJS in Lund University around 2002 -2003 • DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals, 2003 • Signing Berlin Declaration by SUHF and Research Council, 2004, 2005 • First mandates of university libraries for open access publiching, 2004 • Creative Commons Sweden, 2004 • SVEP – coordination of electronic publishing in Swedish HEIs,

HAPPENING NOW • Lively discussion on open access principles and open science • Several public funders are o. Coalition partners in Plan S • Research Council has: • Produced Proposal for national guidelines for open access to scientific information, 2015 • Published a report on FAIR Criteria for Research Data, 2015 • SUHF prepared recommendations for accounting APCs within universities

HAPPENING NOW • National Library: • implements the Government’s directive to coordinate national transition to full and immediate open access in Sweden by 2026 • Prepared a report on qualifications, evaluation and resource allocation as incentives for open access, 2019 • BIBSAM consortium negotiates new type of licences or transformative agreements for journal databases

MAIN RESULTS • 112 open access journals published in Sweden by 2018 (Björk, 2019) • Swe. Pub – access to all data (bibliographic and full-text) registered in the institutional repositories of 45 Swedish universities • Kriterium – an organiser of reviewing open access monographs (16 monographs published this way since 2016) • National Data Service provides access to almost 1000 datasets submitted by Swedish researchers • BIBSAM and university libraries: • Boycott of unfair publishers • First licences – transmission agreements - including article processing charges are signed (Springer…)

CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS

PUBLISHING OPEN ACCESS ARTICLES • Open access journals (without APC): • Human IT (https: //humanit. hb. se) • Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidskrift (https: //www. idunn. no/nkt) • Information research (informationr. net/is/) • Publishing in journals with BIBSAM transformative agreements: • Springer Nature (577 journals), Springer Compact (1850 journals) • Taylor&Frances (1450 articles) • IOPScience (OA paid by the Library)

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY AT THE UB • Rectors policy guidelines for open access publishing in DIVA • Part of university internal and external research funding is allocated according to the research results visible in the repository • Green open access through the repository DIVA to all bibliographic data of research published by UB staff and to some full-text materials (parallel publishing) • All doctoral, Master’s and Bachelor’s theses are published in DIVA • DIVA is harvested for Swe. Pub

UB LIBRARY SUPPORT FOR RESEARCHERS’ • Helps to choose publishing outlet for research articles and understand licences • Helps to avoid predatory publishing outlets • Help with getting ISBN and other thesis publishing issues • Presentations of open access to research groups for ordering • Open access weeks – awareness raising events • Help in registering publications in DIVA

OPEN RESEARCH DATA – DAU (DATA ACCESS UNIT) • The unit is composed of librarians, research support staff, IT staff • Helps in creating Data management plan and starting management • Works on making the research data findable • Finds out which guidelines, rights and restrictions apply to research data. • Library and IT unit will provide space for sharing open research data

FUTURE OF OPEN ACCESS IN SWEDEN • Swedish Research Council – a centre of information on open access and open science • More and more open access publications if and when the motivation starts working and research evaluation criteria changes • Demands for open access publishing become a normal feature of funding with all funders • Libraries expand their role as the hubs of open access to research results

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