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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Dear Readers,</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Welcome to the Christmas issue of ScieCom
info. Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication, </font><a href="http://www.sciecom.org/sciecominfo" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">http://www.sciecom.org/sciecominfo</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">We start with the evaluation of our
financial supporter </font><a href="http://www.nordbib.net/Frontpage.aspx" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Nordbib</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">.
Nordbib is a four year funding programme for R&D within the area of Open
Access to scholarly information in the Nordic countries. As the four-year
period was coming to an end, an official evaluation was commissioned. Here the
evaluators Jon Duke and Andy Jordan summarize their evaluation report:” </font><a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1808/1415" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Nordbib
– a success story</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">.” Now we are waiting to see if the
“success story” will result in a Nordbib.2.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The hot topic of OA business models is
discussed in three articles.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Mikkel Christoffersen, project manager of
Nordbib, presents “</font><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1809/1404" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The
Danish experience of the Houghton studies: costs and benefits of alternative
publishing models</font></a></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">” and highlights the startling results of the
studies as well as the basic method and assumptions made to achieve them and
the potential implications for Denmark.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">In his provocative piece “ </font><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1810/1405" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">”Free”
Open Choice – beware of Greeks bearing gifts</font></a></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">” the
economist Jan Erik Frantsvåg, University of Tromsø, raises important
questions regarding the economic consequences of hybrid journal solutions
Frantsvåg points at two major problems one has to be aware of if pursuing this
kind of strategy. Reflect on his conclusions and feel free to comment.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Jörgen Eriksson follows up on a previous
article announcing the establishment of a central fund for OA publication fees
at Lund University. The fund is managed by the Libraries Head Office. In his
article “</font><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1811/1416" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Lund
University supports publishing in OA journals: an examination</font></a></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">”
Eriksson analyzes the usage of the fund from January to late September 2009. He
shows the actual costs for the university with the current model, and draws
conclusions for the near future.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">A new important Nordic institutional
mandate - The Copenhagen Business School (CBS) Open Access Mandate - was
adopted in June 2009, and covers publication of peer-reviewed journal articles
and contributions to conference proceedings. Leif Hansen, senior adviser at the
CBS, presents background, decision process, and experiences of the
implementation. “</font><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1812/1420" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Greater
access to scholarly publications from Copenhagen Business School- The CBS
Open-Access Policy – 2009</font></a></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">”.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">With more and more mandates in place, it becomes
increasingly important to inform researchers about the implications of OA.
Peter Linde, Aina Svensson, and Helena Stjernberg have taken active parts in a
series of meetings with researchers at Swedish HE-institutions. They present
their experiences from these meetings, discuss the changed roles of research
libraries, and give us good practical advice. ”</font><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1813/1419" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Open
Access at Swedish Universities and University Colleges: From Headwind to
Tailwind?</font></a></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">”</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">In 2008, Finland’s universities of
applied science created a digital repository for theses and research
publications. The Theseus project was founded by Finland’s Ministry of
Education and the country’s 26 universities of applied sciences. It had
two parts: an open access web journal and a repository for publications. In
their article “</font><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1814/1409" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Theseus.fi:
Open Access Publishing in the Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences</font></a></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">”
Herkko Hietanen and Anna-Kaisa Sjölund describe the project, legal issues, and
the challenges involved in its implementation.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Finally, we are happy to present two
comprehensive conference reports:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Insights into the current situation for
Open Access in the Baltic countries and the Ukraine are given by Iryna Kuchma,
eIFL Open Access program manager, in her report on a seminar held at the
University of Latvia in October 2009. It was attended by a mixture of
researchers, research managers, policy-makers, journal editors, publishers,
librarians, and ICT specialists. “</font><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1815/1410" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">At
the event. Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact seminar.</font></a></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Kristoffer Holmqvist reports from the NOAP
conference “</font><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1817/1418" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Nordic
Scientific and Scholarly journal publishing – interesting times (NSSJP)</font></a></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">”,
held in Uppsala 25 November. NOAP is funded by Nordbib to aid scientific
journals towards OA publishing. Representatives from various Nordic countries
and with different professional backgrounds were invited. Perspectives
discussed included Business Models, Journal Support Tools, and Copyright Issues
as well as new publishing concepts.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">As always, your comments and ideas are very
welcome</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Ingegerd Rabow</font></span></p>
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