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<p style='line-height:140%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[Apologies
for cross-posting]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='line-height:140%;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#111111'><a
href="http://www.sciecom.org/sciecominfo">SCIECOMINFO 3 (2009)</a> <br>
(http://www.sciecom.org/sciecominfo)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Dear
Readers,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Our most
important News is the Swedish Research Council’s OA-mandate.” 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. <br>
<a
href="http://www.vr.se/inenglish/fromus/news/newsarchive/news2009/news2009/theswedishresearchcouncilrequiresfreeaccesstoresearchresults.5.227c330c123c73dc586800012074.html"
target="_blank" title=OA>Further Information</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#111111'>We also want
to point to the 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing<br>
(COASP) held in Lund, Sweden 14-16 September this year. The recordings of the
individual presentations are posted at <a href="http://www.river-valley.tv/">http://www.river-valley.tv</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#111111'>In our
series Open Minds Jan Hagerlid presents an <a
href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1768/1397"
target="_blank" title=Hagerlid>interview</a> with Gunnel Engwall, President of
the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, professor of
Romance languages at Stockholm University. She relates the
Academy’s motives for signing both the Berlin declaration and the
EU-petition in 2007 and the consecutive measures taken by the Academy. Gunnel
Enwall also discusses publishing patterns in the Humanities and the current
popular evaluation metrics. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#111111'>A new Danish
open access network (DOAN) has been established. This and other developments in
Denmark are <a
href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1762/1391"
target="_blank" title=Price>reported</a> by our Danish editor Adrian Price.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#111111'>In his
article <a
href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1763/1392"
target="_blank" title=Ilva>Building a repository infrastructure for Finland</a>,
Jyrki Ilva, Systems librarian at the National Library of Finland presents the
background and developments, valuable experiences and best practice, and
challenges for coming years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Activities
in Iceland are presented by two articles. <br>
Áslaug Ágnarsdottir’s <a
href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1764/1393"
target="_blank" title=Aslaug>The University of Iceland joins Skemman</a> is a
short report of their experiences and a somewhat surprising attitude to OA to
their theses on the part of the students. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Ian Watson
at Bifröst University writes about Starting an Open Access journal in Iceland.
The Bifröst Journal of Social Science / Tímarit um félagsvísindi is one of
Iceland’s first open access journals and the first to use Open Journal
Systems software. His <a
href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1765/1394"
target="_blank" title=Watson>article</a> summarizes lessons learned from the
first three years of the journal’s operation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#111111'>From Norway
Ingrid Cutler at the University of Bergen Library <a
href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1766/1395"
target="_blank" title=Cutler>writes</a> about Creating a library service for
scholarly open access journals and describes the objectives of this service to
support both independent journals wanton to convert to open access, and
professional groups desiring a service for the starting of a new journal with
open access.<br>
Focus is on the library’s experiences in establishing and offering such a
service.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Ingar
Lomheim at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology Library <a
href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1767/1396"
target="_blank" title=Lomheim>reports</a> on their publishing activities in The
focus on publishing at the NTNU library. The NTNU has decided to put a special
focus on publishing, and the article describes the two major reasons for this
decision as well as the project organisation, goals, resources, and open access
publishing</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:140%;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#111111'><br>
As usual, your comments and ideas are very welcome<br>
<br>
Ingegerd Rabow<br>
Editor-in-chief</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:
140%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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