[BOAI] The Swedish Research Council mandates Open Access

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Ingegerd Rabow.  --Peter Suber.]


Press release , 2009-10-07 In Swedish 
http://www.vr.se/franvetenskapsradet/nyheter/nyhetsarkiv/nyheter2009/nyheter2009/vetenskapsradetkraverfritillgangtillforskningsresultat.5.227c330c123c73dc586800011519.html 


(translation from the Swedish by Ingegerd Rabow)

The Swedish Research Council requires free access to research results.

In order to receive research grants the Research 
council requires now that researchers publish 
their material freely accessible to all.

The general public and other researchers shall 
have free access to all material financed by public funding,

The thought behind the so called  Open Access  is 
that everybody shall have free and unlimited 
access to scientifically refereed articles, The 
Research Council has now decided, that 
researchers who are granted research funding from 
the Council shall publish  their refereed texts 
in journals and at conferences in this way.

"We are of the opinion that texts presenting 
research funded by public funds shall be freely 
available to all," says professor Pär Omling 
Director General of the Swedish Research Council. 
"Open Access is an important prerequisite for the 
dissemination of research results to the benefit of society."

Researchers are required to guarantee that 
everything published shall be freely available 
according to to Open Access not later than six months after publication.

The Council's decision regarding Open Access has 
been taken in close cooperation with SUHF, the 
Association of Swedish Higher Education. To 
promote free dissemination of research results is 
not and isolated Swedish occurrence, The so 
called Berlin Declaration aiming to implement 
Open Access has been signed by several  large, 
mainly European  research funders.

The Open Access-mandate covers so far only 
refereed journal articles and conference reports, 
not monographs and book chapters. The mandate 
will be included in the new grant conditions from 2010..

For more information, contact
Håkan Billig, main secretary for the Medical 
Council, tel +46 8-546 44 294, e-post hakan.billig at vr.se
Pär Omling, Director General the Swedish Research 
Council, tel +46 8-546 44 185, e-post par.omling at vr.se

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